Let's play the melodica! 28 songs with letter notation for the beginner (Easy Melodica)

It’s good that pages 1 & 2 give description of and taking care of a Melodica. However, after that is a maze. Circles with a number inside is harder to use than regular musical notation. Reading inside a circle then at keys is back and forth. The letters in a circle don’t distinguish whole note, half note, etc. The instructions on page 3 is not for beginners unless already know the terminology. However, the 5 songs in back of book with regular notation has letter written above each note. One can relate the number right at the keyboard. Sorry I bought It.

I liked this book because it contains a lot of songs and made me get started, but the notation is ideosyncratic and will probably teach very bad habits. I play a couple tunes out of it every night for practice, but there are probably better resources for the price.

As an adult child i found this book very easy to use. From there i was able to translate the notes over to the Melodica key board for a wonderful Silent Night song during the holidays.

A good book for a beginner melodica player. Wish there had been more choices.