No music reading is required for this book/DVD pack! The book covers topics such as: two-beat shuffle box shuffle linear boogie woogie round boogie woogie Yancy/Domino-inspired groove and New Orleans-inspired groove. The intimate instructional DVD features Ann Rabson teaching her own brand of blues and barrelhouse piano with six in-depth lessons based on left-hand grooves. Along with these grooves you ll learn tasty fills turnarounds soloing ideas and much more.