inclination to play the guitar or other instrument for providing live instrumental accompaniment to the singing during a learning session the materials of the present invention include a plurality of music sound recordings one for each song having lyrics contained on the various pages of the song book 10 and the activity book 32 these recordings may be in the form of tape cassette recordings 46 as represented in fig5 each cassette 46 having the performances of the words and music of a different song recorded thereon the same song is preferably recorded on each u201c side u201d of the cassette to avoid the necessity of rewinding the song 39 s icon 28 and the song 39 s title 22 are marked on the packaging of each of the sound recordings in the case of tape cassette recordings 46 the housing 47 of each tape cassette recording 46 is marked with the song title 22 and the song 39 s icon 28 for each song in the song book 10 if the cassettes i e the tape recordings with their housings 47 are contained in respective boxes or other containers as is common or even in respective plastic bags then such box or container or bag may be considered to be the packaging for the sound recording and may be marked with the appropriate icon 48 the activities page 40 corresponding to and preferably opposite the song page 38 includes a.