If It Sounds To Good To Be True
It Probably Is
Ziggy teaches some important lessons, including caveat emptor, i.e. "buyer beware."
Among our collection of old sheet music is this instruction book.
Page 1 starts, logically, at the beginning, assuming you know nothing about music.
A few pages later, after some explanations and exercises, you get your first song to play:
The left hand part is "stride" style,
playing doubled-octave bass notes low on the keyboard on beat one,
and a four-note chord in mid-range on the following beat.
The right hand plays the melody with doubled octaves all the way through.
Zero to Scott Joplin in one week.
After that it gets difficult.
Next is a magazine advertisement from the late 1970s.
Notice that you will be able to play ANY song after a week.
And you will be able to do it by EAR or by reading MUSIC.
But, if you can tune by ear, why do you need the wallet-size device?
Another book from the archives.
The author was so confident this would work, he used his real name.
Major Kord.
Not some silly pseudonym.
Like Roger Hughes or whatever.
For what it's worth, this one is much newer.
This approach might actually work . . .
if you spend several hours a day for 72 days.
(It only works for playing lead sheets.)
But why would I want to take six weeks when I can become like a pro in 2½ hours?
~ FURTHER READING ~
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Here are some snippets of song lyrics referring to snake oil peddlers:
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