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Title: You get what you pay for
Review: On the surface this book might seem like a bargain. It covers a lot of topics, it has a lot of pages, and costs very little, relative to other music textbooks.But then when you try to actually learn from it, you quickly see why it is so cheap. It is nearly useless imho. It "covers" topic after topic, "machine gun" style, announcing what it is trying to teach, includes a few very brief paragraphs describing it, a few bars of music, then moves on. Owch. Compare that with other texts that devote a lot more discussion, examples, exercises, and most also include some music that you can listen to, to more fully describe the concept. And also the pages are small, the font is small, and the diagrams are small and often so scrunched that they are difficult to read. Then you start to understand why they are practically giving this book away.
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