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Title: A disappointment
Review: I was not impressed with the lessons in this book. The music did not sound like any jazz that I'm familiar with. As another reviewer put it, the music seemed terribly "white bread."I also found the CD of very little help. As I try to learn to read western music, after studying the verbally imparted music of North India for 20 years, I find that I'm very insecure about reading rhythm. So I turned to the recordings of the lessons on the CD to verify if I'm reading the rhythms properly. No dice. The MIDI orchestration makes it virtually impossible to hear what the piano is doing. A more sensible format would have been to have ONLY the piano playing, with the left hand in one channel and the right hand in the other, so that you can hear each part clearly and distinctly. As it stands on the final product, the CD recordings are a hopeless hodgepodge.Pass on this book and keep looking if you are interested in learning this music.
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