Schaum Note Spellers Book 1 (Schaum Method Supplement)

The Schaum Note Speller has the unqualified testimonial of thousands of teachers who pronounce it 'The Best.' Musical facts, beginning with line and space numbers are taught. Students learn by doing, since this book is in workbook form. This saves valuable lesson time, and immediately shows any mistakes in the beginner's thinking.

Customer Reviews:

Helps Teach the Notes, which is important

By Smaug "Jeremy" - December 2, 2007

I bought this to help me learn the notes for learning how to play piano. Mom recommended it. (she taught piano lessons when I was a baby 30 years ago)

She said it is a classic, and although it is kind of boring, this is what's needed to learn the notes so that I can ultimately read music and play Mozart. It seems to be working.

I leave it in the bathroom with a pencil, and work on it for those few minutes when there's nothing else to do with my mind. ;)

Excellent for young students learning to read those notes!

By Latte - August 28, 2008

As a piano teacher of over 20 years, this is one of my favorite tools to help get beginners solidly on the road to reading and recognizing the notes of the treble & bass clefs. It will be a little tedious for any child who is not a beginner, but for the rest, it will be a valuable tool to help them with this critical skill.

It begins with the most basic recognition of the lines & spaces, then adds note names to them, and helps with drawing the clefs as well. Recommended!

Very useful resource

By E. Sikorski - November 29, 2010

This book is a wonderful resource for any student learning to read music notation. While it is intended to be used for piano, it would certainly work for any instrument. There are a few pages devoted to treble and bass clef separately, but many pages have exercises using both notes. It is quite easy to skip the examples using the opposite clef, while still having many practice problems for students.

Also, as a middle school music teacher, one of the biggest difficulties I encounter is students understanding that the shape of the note does not affect its pitch. This book provides many examples of different pitches using all types of rhythmic notes. Likewise, it also provides various rhythms to demonstrate how pitch and rhythmic notation work independently of each other. For the small cost of the book, I think it will provide the needed reinforcement for beginning music readers, no matter their age.