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Reading Music, Part Two – Learning At the Best Time, In the Best Way

Many people have the misconception that the Simply Music program doesn’t teach music reading, but as you may have gathered in my recent article asking how important is it to read music?, we consider music-reading a valuable and wonderful tool. However, that doesn’t mean that…

Written by Gordon Harvey on Nov 1, 2015
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Reading Music, Part One – Required or Redundant?

It was interesting to read a recent article by educator Robbie Gennet suggesting that sheet music may not be necessary in music education. Just as enlightening, if not more so, was the reaction in the comments section, a lot of it quite hostile, which prompted…

Written by Gordon Harvey on Oct 11, 2015
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