Music Theory: From Beginner to Expert – The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Learning Music Theory Effortlessly (Essential Learning Tools for Musicians)
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Unique, practical and straightforward way to learn music theory and discover how music really works.
Newly updated and massively expanded edition with new content, exercises and images.
This book also features the links to audio examples (hosted on external website). These examples allow you to hear the relevant music theory concepts and understand them better!
Have you ever wanted:To know how music theory can make you a better player (on any instrument)?
To understand how music works, why we have 12 notes, how they relate to each other and why we use intervals with imperfect resonance?
To understand how music theory is not just some made up rules we invented out of thin air; how it’s actually based on the natural laws and stems from natural occurrences, like overtone series?
To unlock the mysteries of notes, intervals, music scales, modes, keys, circle of fifths, chords and chord progressions, rhythms and other important concepts in music, and how they all relate to one another?
To get a deep understanding of scales, modes and chords, where they come from, what are the different types that exist, how they’re built, and how to use any chord or scale in your playing?
To learn how to form, name and play any chord that is possible to play?
To learn how rhythm works and how to master your rhythm and timing skills that will make you sound like a pro on any instrument?
To understand harmony and the magic behind all the beautiful music that you love and how you can (re)create it by yourself?
To get a wider perspective on tonal harmony and how melody, harmony, and rhythm work together?
To understand composition and improvisation, and how to use voice leading and chord inversions to create beautiful harmonies?
To get a grasp on the advanced concepts (such as modal playing, atonality, polychords and polytonality, free music, etc.) that usually only advanced jazz musicians may consider using?
But…Have you ever had trouble learning music theory or thought that it was unnecessary, boring or too hard to learn?
Have you perhaps thought using intellect will be bad for your playing?
If you find yourself in any of this, then this book is the answer you’ve been looking for. It covers pretty much everything that anyone who plays or wants to play music should know. It is the book to have if you want to become a better musician, and have by your side as an immensely useful reference of knowledge.
This book is structured in a way that makes it very easy to follow, digest and internalize all important concepts that constitute music theory. What’s great is that you don’t have to be a college musician in order to understand and use any of this – anyone can do it, even a total newbie. It also doesn’t matter what instrument(s) you play, nor your current level of knowledge and playing ability, because music theory is universal and all about what sounds good together! Anyone can benefit from it. It explains the WHY and HOW, and it is your roadmap – a skill and a tool, guided by your ears, for creating your best music.
This is the most comprehensive and evergreen book on music theory that you can find – a book you’ll wish to study and refer to often, and keep it forever. You’ll also wish to gift it your friends and discuss about its content with other musicians.
It will give you what is necessary to become an expert in music theory without frustration and feeling overwhelmed in the process, and this in-turn will have immense benefits to your playing and musicianship!
But don’t take my word for it, use the Look Inside feature by clicking on the book cover to get a preview of what you’ll find inside.
Get this book now and solve all your problems with music theory!
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 17, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 242 pages
ISBN-10 : 1986061833
ISBN-13 : 978-1986061834
Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 0.55 x 10 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book helpful and informative for music theory. They say it covers all important topics and is worth the money. However, some readers report typographical and factual errors in the grammar and organization. Opinions differ on the clarity of the content, with some finding it concise and easy to understand, while others feel it lacks help and examples. There are also mixed reviews regarding the audiobook quality, with some finding it abridged and lacking notated music.
Customer Reviews
9 reviews for Music Theory: From Beginner to Expert – The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Learning Music Theory Effortlessly (Essential Learning Tools for Musicians)
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Charles M. Crane –
Useful to musicians at any level
This book is a most useful to musicians at almost any level to advance their knowledge of music theory. It is well written and well organized, and comes with links to an audio examples which complement the text and make it come alive. I am only part way into the book and I have already used the knowledge in my composing. I had an issue with the audio examples, to which the author responded and fixed. Highly recommended.
Kurt Witowski –
Excellent Reference
Comprehensive, concise and practical. Nicolas does such a good job of covering what’s important to understanding HOW music works, that I can see how it would be overwhelming to beginners. So take heart if you are and want to attain a professional level because this book will take you there.There’s something for every level in this book. Expect to ponder many aspects of this wonderful thing we call music and improve your musicianship as you do. There’s so much information that even seasoned professionals will find “I didn’t know that” topics. At the very least you’ll get different perspectives that will expand your horizons, i.e. there’s plenty of food for thought (that’s not wordy or a waste of time).I particularly appreciated how Nicolas points out crucial information that is easy to not to think much of. For example, page 192 Timbre/Tone points out the importance of this subject. For years I was “unable” to figure out songs by ear because no matter what I did, it “didn’t sound right” to me. When I heard other people play I’d think “yeah, that’s it, but something’s wrong” without having a clue what it was. If only I had known that coming out of the gate.I can only think of two suggestions to improve this book. 1) The word “microtuning” is never used. The subject is covered to a degree with equal temperament, overtone and just intonation, but does not point out how modern synths can easily create other divisions of the octave (19, 22, 24, 27 and 31 divisions are common) and that there is music specifically written for various tunings. 2) I was pleased to find Spirituality and Music covered on page 233. This would be a good place to add the healing aspects of music. Steven Halpern’s Chakra Suite (and the book Sound Health) are good examples of what I’m talking about. When I first seen Steven in the 80’s, He demonstrated how powerful music is and the seminar not only made me a better musician, it changed my life. So if you’re looking for a book to take you to a professional level with music and change your life, this book will help you do that. It’s that good.
cj –
I found the explanations thorough and easy to understand
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.I found the explanations thorough and easy to understand. Scales, chords – how they are built and how they relate, chord substitutions, modes, inversions and extensions all became more clear to me and will give the aspiring songwriter a wealth of ideas to explore and have fun with.Not that you need to be or want to be a songwriter to benefit. All players should know the information in this book.Being such a broad and deep subject, it’s impossible to cover all of the aspects of theory in a single book but this little gem certainly has enough that anyone wanting to get a grasp of the more important/fundamental concepts of music theory will be well rewarded.I don’t often rate anything 5 stars but Nicolas’ book comes close to that standard for me.The (very minor) faults as I see it are an occasional mis-spelling and such, maybe auto spell raised it’s ugly head once or twice.I want to re-read it and update this review as I didn’t bother making any notes while reading but all in all I would highly recommend this book to anyone with no knowledge on the subject, or someone like me with a more intermediate understanding.I’m sure there are professional players who could gain a lot from reading it.I’ll be looking at Carter’s other books and hope their quality are as good as this one.I’m very impressed with this book and want to help encourage more from this author so I also paid for a copy.It’s that good.
Jesse Junior –
Advanced Music Theory Book
Definitely, a book for the more mature reader. The reader must have an expanded vocabulary in order to understand the concepts of music theory presented in this book.The graphs and diagrams are limited to the first few chapters of the book. This is a book for the more advanced musician who wishes to increase his knowledge of theory and composition. It is a very useful book for the advanced player and song writer.
mk –
Great intro
Really helpful intro to music theory. Some is definitely over my head as a newbie but this is a great resource.
Eric –
I just received this the other day and haven’t gotten very far into the book, but it seems like it’ll be ideal for someone like me, who is used to single-line music and is not very familiar with chords and their variations.
Jackie –
It’s a very special book, unlike all the other classical music theory books. It is written in a way as if the author is chatting with you. I like it because it not only explains the theory itself but also a bit of the logic behind. For instance it is the first time that I learned why the minor scales is constructed this way whereas the other books just tells you what the minor scale is without any explanation of the underlying logic. According to my personal opinion things that can be improved include making more visualized examples. Sometimes the explanation is convoluted and can be suddenly clearer if with the examples visualized with the notes. Additionally I think that despite the title one can in no way become any expert at the end of the book. but that is natural and expected, since one needs enough practicing. just to learning the concepts does not necessarily mean that one has mastered it.
M. B –
ouvrage intéressant- en bon état
Marcin –
I love the structure of the book and the accessible language it uses to explain complex concepts of music theory starting from the very basics (intervals, chords, scales, rhythm) all the way to modes, chromaticism and improvisation. I can recommend this whole heartedly – 10/10 <3
Ines –
Este livro leva o leitor pela mão explicando desde as noções mais básicas e fundamentais de teoria musical até noções complexas de uma maneira muito simples e eficaz de digerir. Eu já tinha algumas noções básicas antes de ler este livro, que no fundo me está a ajudar a consolidar o que já sabia mas também a aprender a lógica por detrás de ideias que eu entendia apenas intuitivamente. Não posso recomendar o suficiente. Vale mesmo muito a pena!