A thorough, detailed guide on how to read music, providing everything you need to know, along with a compendium of additional information. Includes 'Play Along' sections containing simple, well-known examples of music. With helpful diagrams, clear accessible text and a practical ringbound format. This is the ideal guide for those who wish to get to grips with music to a greater depth, to learn to play faster, more complicated scores, to compose and arrange music the possibilities are endless. This guide provides everything you need to know, explaining pitch, the treble clef, the bass clef, rhythm, accidentals, key signatures, scales and chords, along with a compendium of additional information. Then practise what you have learnt with the 'Play Along' sections containing simple, well-known examples of music, from 'Scarborough Fair' to 'Jerusalem'. With helpful diagrams, clear accessible text and a practical ringbound format. 384 illustrations