Music and Dyslexia: Opening New Doors

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Summary: Overcoming Musical Roadblocks due to Dyslexic Tendencies
Review: Do you play a musical Instrument but are struggling to learn how to read musical notation? That was the case with my daughter and myself for that matter, (But I don't play an instrument yet) After a year and a half of playing the Harp my daughter couldn't figure out the Theory part. It didn't hit me until I realized that after my helping her for the past 1 1/2 yrs. that I couldn't "get it" either. After searching the Internet for hours and hours I came to the conclusion that we both have Dyslexic Tendencies. This is the only Book that I could find on the subject. If you play an Instrument and you have difficulty learning to read music this Book has a lot of answers.

Here is the Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - The Manifestations of Dyslexia, its biological bases, and its effects on daily living.
Chapter 2- how dyslexia can affect musicians
Chapter 3- Dyslexia and musical development
Chapter 4 through 19- Personal stories about Dyslexic Musicians
Chapter 20- a multi-sensory approach to the teaching of musical notation.
Chapter 21- Gathering the threads
Appendix I- Recognizing the dyslexic child-notes for parents and teachers.
Appendix II- Checklist of dyslexic symptoms in adults.

I feel the first 4 chapters alone are worth getting the book for. Having someone explain Their Theory on Music and Dyslexia in a nutshell was very enlightening.
In Chapter 20- The Author has developed a method he calls 'Colour Staff' for learning to read Music. Interestingly enough I have developed my own variation of the same idea with using color.

After reading his idea and comparing it to mine, I like mine better. I created a 'Grand Staff' on a Word Processor and using Colored Notes I have been writing Music "In Color" for 6 Months. And guess what, IT WORKED! My daughter can read music now, and no longer has to memorize the songs she learns. I'm considering writing some sort of booklet on My Colored Notes Theory, and possibly a Web Site in the future...I hope this information helps you in your search for finding new ways of Learning to read Music. ....