Reading Keyboard Music
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For C.W. Reid, piano music was truly the love of his life. From the age of eleven until his death in 1959, Reid dedicated himself to sharing that love by teaching others to play. Playing the piano wasn't always a joy for Reid. As a young student he had great difficulty in learning to read music - especially the bass clef. At one point he even stopped taking lessons. Once Reid began to teach, he was determined to spare his own students that frustration, and experimented for eighteen years to find a better way to teach the basics of reading music. During the 1930's Reid expanded his method with beginning pieces, technical exercises and written drills on staff and keyboard note placement. As his grass roots enterprise grew he produced books on a homemade printing press and distributed them through students and friends. C.W. Reid, considered a master music educator of the 20th century, was chairman of the music department at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and later a professor of music at the McCune School of Music in Salt Lake City. Throughout his life he continued to develop and perfect his method of teaching...a method that is now available, with much of Reid's original work intact, through Reading Keyboard Music, LLC. |
