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Help Your Kids with Music is a step-by-step visual guide to music theory. Help Your Kids with Music is the perfect primer to help students gain a solid foundation in music, no matter their age, skill level, or instrument. Help Your Kids with Music clearly explains key concepts in five step-by-step chapters: The Basics explains the types of instruments, notation for keyboard and stringed instruments, the "musical alphabet," and counting a beat. Rhythm covers the length of notes and rests, as well as basic rhythms and meters, phrasing, syncopation, tempo, and using a metronome. Tone and Melody includes everything a student needs to know about tones and how they work together to build a melody. Chords and Harmony shows how intervals work together and includes examples for horn and woodwind instruments.