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Sight-Read Any Rhythm Instantly | 
 enlarge | Creator: Mark Phillips
Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 158765
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 56
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9.5 x 0.2
ISBN: 1575605155
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999567779
EAN: 9781575605159
ASIN: 1575605155
Publication Date: March 1, 2002
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Product Description
Learn how to sight-read any rhythm instantly! Wouldn't you like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds? If so, then this book is for you. You'll discover: how to memorize the sound of each commonly occurring, one-beat note combination * the difference between duple and triple time, simple and compound time, and 6/4 time and 3/2 time * the true meaning of "cut" time * how to instantly play odd groupings (triplets, quintuplets, etc.) * and much more.
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 Awesome June 3, 2008
This book delivers what it says. Combine it with some rhythm exercises such as "Encyclopedia Of Reading Rhythms", and you will be a monster rhythm reader in a matter of weeks.
 Starts on a strong beat then fails off May 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Counting beats, instead of notes, in the beginning of this book is easy. Whenever the author starts to introduce eighth and sixteenth notes, his method of reading rhythms gets confusing. A CD would help to clear any confusion about what the rhythm sounds like.
Sight Read Anything May 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sight Read any rhythm instantly means just that. Explains really well, and the content is the best; the author emphasizes on counting beats. None of that 1 e n a 2 e n a etc... that will only slow your learning.
 Slow down there.....it's alright but not great. May 3, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First I've been playing for over 15 years. I know how to read and I got this to help my students. (Extra Practice) My first complaints-no cd. A student needs reinforcement and will ask questions that could be answered with the compliment of a cd. 2nd. The teaching method is odd to me. It throws alot of stuff at you that should be better graded in difficulty-again thinking with the student in mind. This book I would give a D+ or C. Depends on your level of musicanship and determination to work through his explainations..i.e. labeling beats D U N just confusing jargon. Good examples of stuff you will see in music. NOt a bad book for extra broadening your mind. I would go with a slower graded method with a cd. It will help you faster and reinforce the positive techniques.
Not getting it January 18, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I'm an intermediate level pianist, self-taught. I had very high hopes for this book. Rhythm is my weakness, particulary with sight reading. I require a combination of counting and listening to master complicated rhythms. At first, the approach of this book seemed great...counting beats instead of notes. The whole concept of "hit, don't hit" and rests being the same as carried notes was not intuitively a good fit for me, but then the author starts having you divide notes into beats by drawing boxes around them, without really explaining the "rules..." I really can't explain what he does here, it's a bit complex. Then, he uses the example of "twinkle, twinkle, little star" for mastery of 2 eighth notes in one beat and quarter notes. That worked...but he didn't follow up by using examples for all of the other rhythmic variations. By Chapter three he is telling you to memorize the sound of each rhythmic variation, but the only way to play it is by counting the notes, which he has told you not to do! It's quite maddening. If there were a CD to accompany it, or more illustrations of familiar songs, it would help. Still, it looks like this book works for other reviewers. It just did not work at all for me, and hopefully I can send it back and get a book with an accompanying CD. Perhaps if I already knew how to count all the rhythms, the book would work for changing the way I see notes, but as for teaching complex rhythms, it didn't work for me.
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