Music learning aid

Claim 1

A music learning and instrument playing aid comprising: (a) a planar base member of elongate construction extending in a longitudinal direction and having indicia marked on a face thereof, the indicia comprising: indicia representing musical staff lines extending in the longitudinal direction, musical note indicia representing individual musical notes located on the staff lines at different positions in the longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of sets of additional information indicia, each set being associated with indicia representing an individual musical note and being in alignment in the transverse direction with the associated musical note indicia; and (b) a sliding template comprising: means for sliding on the base member in the longitudinal direction, and a plurality of elongate windows each extending in the transverse direction, the relationship between the length of each window and the indicia on the base member being such that the windows allow viewing of indicia for musical notes at different transverse locations on the staff lines upon sliding of the template to different longitudinal positions on the base member, and to allow viewing of indicia for associated additional information at each longitudinal position, and wherein the windows are located with respect to each other to allow viewing of musical note indicia representing a musical note calculation so that the longitudinal direction is a calculation direction and the transverse direction is an additional information direction.