Notebusters Music Workbooks
Master sheet music with focused, timed note-reading exercises
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Notes Identified
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Timed Exercises
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Notes read
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Exercises
Master sight-reading in just 1 minute a day
Music note-reading exercises are designed to be completed in one minute or less. Timed exercises and repetition are key to improving sight-reading speed. Our easy-to-track scoring system encourages self-improvement.
Personalized & effective learning
Our workbooks are dedicated to improving sight-reading skills. No distractions, just note-reading exercises tailored to your skill level and instrument. Music notes are presented without patterns to increase difficulty and enhance sight-reading.
Great for multiple instruments
Choose from workbooks designed for the piano, guitar, violin, clarinet, flute, bass, and trumpet.
Designed for beginning and intermediate students
Choose between workbooks specifically designed for brand new students and workbooks for more advanced students looking to improve their sight-reading abilities with more challenging exercises.
Note-reading workbooks for all instruments and difficulty levels
Complete Edition
Our most comprehensive workbook covering over 30 notes on both staves. Perfect for ambitious students or a great follow-on from our beginner workbooks.
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240 note-reading exercises
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Beginner & Intermediate level
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Piano & most instruments
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30 notes on treble & bass staff
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Beginner Piano
Designed for students learning to play the piano. Contains 80 exercises with notes that most commonly occur in beginning piano sheet music.
$13
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80 note-reading exercises
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Beginner level
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Designed specifically for piano
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17 notes on treble & bass staff
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Beginner Guitar
Designed for students learning to play the guitar. Contains 80 exercises with notes that most commonly occur in beginning guitar sheet music.
$13
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80 note-reading exercises
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Beginner level
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Designed specifically for guitar
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13 notes on treble staff
Beginner Violin
Designed for students learning to play the violin. Contains 80 exercises with notes that most commonly occur in beginning violin sheet music.
$13
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80 note-reading exercises
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Beginner level
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Designed specifically for violin
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14 notes on treble staff
Notebusters is a must-have supplemental workbook for all music students
Notebusters was created by an accomplished music teacher who was frustrated with the lack of note-reading exercises in typical music theory books. Without properly learning how to sight-read, students can stagnate and lose motivation. Notebusters addresses the gap by offering months of note-reading exercises to ensure new music students can quickly identify notes. Notebusters’ exercises provide tangible results with easy-to-track progression that motivates students to continue to practice. More than 40 million notes identified later, the approach hasn’t changed.
Over 100 5-star ratings on Amazon
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What a revelation this book is! My 3 daughters are taking piano and I've had a hard time getting them excited about learning how to sight read. Flashcards weren't cutting it - they are just repetitive and boring. Notebusters is totally different. It's easily digestible and my kids like being timed (and rewarded with small treats) for besting their previous records. Every kid taking piano should have this book!
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Great tool that helped me start actually playing the piano a lot faster. Had been learning notes and a bit of theory, but wasn't really seeing an improvement in my ability to sight read. Learning to read random notes at a quick pace has really helped. Highly recommend this workbook for easy and effective exercises!
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Perfect for teaching music to my kids. In just a few pages, they were note reading like pros. I can't wait to see how they do when they make it through the whole book. I like that I can use it as an education tool or as self study, since the answer key is included in the book. I also like the way it is broken down by difficulty level.
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This is by far the easiest and most-effective music learning tool I've ever used! Simple mechanics and easy layout make this a perfect gift for friends and family who want to learn music. Highly recommend it!
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Best tool ever, even as an adult student I have found this book to really help me on note identification.
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This book is excellent for really getting fluent in reading music. It has already helped my playing tremendously.
It is a fair size book and you do 1 timed (1 minute) page a day during the week. If followed at this pace it takes about a year to finish the book and at the end it will be easy to read treble clef, bass clef, and all the ledger lines. A very good investment.
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Great book for a music teacher! Plenty of worksheets for your students on treble clef, bass clef and grand staff!
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As an adult, I had been struggling to improve my music reading skills for years. However within just a week of dedicating 10 minutes each morning I noticed a significant improvement in my ability to read music effortlessly. Even though I considered myself semi-competent in reading music, I didn’t realize the how much difference it makes to being completely fluent - I can't recommend it highly enough!
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I have four and seven year old sons who both take piano lessons. It's always been challenging to keep them motivated between their teacher's visits. Notebusters makes it fun and keeps my kids learning throughout the week and they don't even realize it's work! Highly recommend.
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Got this for my niece who is learning to play piano. Her mom says it's working like a charm - she's seeing improvement during lessons and actually enjoys the exercises. If you know someone learning an instrument I highly recommend this!
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This is a down to earth book with page after page of ledger lines and notes. (There's an answer key in the back.) There are no fancy graphics, no smiling people waving at you. Just printed ledger lines with notes that you name.
...Excellent learning resource!!! p.s. This is a very thick book--about 280 pages including the answer key!! There is a lot of exercises to work through!! It's a great value!!!
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I've tried for three years to teach my student to really READ notes, but to no avail until now. She wasn't into doing extra work, but once she learned that each lesson took only a minute, she latched on and is successfully learning to read notes!
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