A 2nd edition of this book with significantly larger print and several additional instructional pages has been released as of August 31, 2015. It may take a few days for it to show up in web stores. This book, along with others in its series, is designed to develop overall music reading skills. It can be used in different ways by different people. For the beginner, it offers a way out of method book systems and into real music. For intermediate to advanced players that do not yet read music, it offers a progressive set of reading exercises that train the player to be able to read music proficiently without having to resort to method books.