The Rockschool Popular Music Theory Guidebook (Grades Debut - Grade 5) is an introduction to music theory for students taking Rockschool's new theory exams. Use it along with the accompanying Popular Music Theory Workbooks (Debut to Grade 5) to ensure success in your exams. Rock and pop music is analysed in depth, making this essential reading for students of all rock and pop styles. Rockschool's Popular Music Theory series is also ideal for Music Technology, GCSE and Further Education students.FeaturesHow music is constructed and written on the staveThe most common scales in rock and popRhythm notation and time signaturesDirections, dynamics and articulationsHarmony theory and common chord progressionsSpecialist notation and techniques for all rock band instrumentsThe role of the instruments in different styles of musicHow to read and analyse a musical scoreAND MUCH MORE!Rockschool's Popular Music Theory Syllabus is fully accredited by all four UK regulators and offers UCAS points at Grades 6, 7 and 8. / Formation Musicale

The Lobster Theory is a groundbreaking new approach to learning the language of jazz. It's a book of musical concepts brought to life through the use of clever analogies, illustrated by New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Mick Stevens. Foreword by Jeff Coffin. Through eighteen chapters, this educational book shares fresh, creative approaches to the following topics: ' Practicing (Lifting Weights) ' Ear training (The School Bell) ' Harmonic awareness (Ketchup on a Brownie) ' Phrasing like a pro (The Bus) ' The importance of chord study (Polishing the Silver) ' Common tones (Dual Citizen Notes) ' Keeping your solos fresh and spontaneous (The Lobster Theory) ' Hearing in harmonic context (Harmonic GPS) ' Pacing your solo (The Waiter) ' How to memorize major scales and key signatures (Alligators, Elephants and Clowns) ' Using chord substitutions (Harmonic Turn Signals) ' Infusing your notes with life and energy (The Bobber Theory) ' Using taste to differentiate the sounds of chords (Apple Chords - includes spellings for the 60 most common seventh chords) ' Two great ways to sequence a musical idea (The Snake) ' Connecting with your listener (Tasting Harmony) ' Organizing your musical furnishings (The Music House) ' Scale note selection (The Kid and the Cupcake) ' Transformative practice strategies (Running with the Pro Dogs) Notated musical examples, jazz etude excerpts, educational chord graphs and charts are featured throughout the book to further illustrate and teach the musical concepts. What Greg Fishman has accomplished in this book is to explain, and then show ' through the use of awesome drawings and complete musical examples ' different concepts and ideas that are essential to our development as musicians. The Lobster Theory is a really fun read and I enjoy Greg's sense of humor and wit. The ideas he presents here are effective, long lasting and inviting for students and educators alike. ' Jeff Coffin

Learn the nuances of music notation and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols as well as general guidelines for writing music.Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today'smusic industry and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department.Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio Hollywood sound stage grand concert hall worship choir loft or elementary school auditorium this book will help you to create readable professional publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.

The AB Guide To Music Theory is intended to help people learning music to understand how music is written down what the various signs and symbols denote and what is meant by the common technical words used by musicians. Arising out of this it provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. In the main this book deals with the subjects of the Associated Board's theory syllabus for Grades 1-5. However for the sake of continuity the information has not been broken up to correspond with individual grades.

Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythms pitch and harmony with this easy to use book. Learn the universal language used by all musicians regardless of instrument. Includes concise detailed explanations illustrations and written exercises.Construct scales cords and intervals.Identify major and minor key centers and common chord progressions.Accurately play various rhythm feels and figures.Learn the basic principles of form and compositional analysis.

A New Tune A Day is a celebrated award-winning and highly successful series for all instruments! This valuable addition to the series contains all the common scales and arpeggios for treble and bass clef instruments.Perfect as a reference resource for the teacher or as a comprehensive study aid for the student with plenty of ideas for study practice tips and a useful transposition table.

Benjamin Dale Gordon Jacob and Hugo Anson. This textbook offers harmony counterpoint and improvisation as one organic course of study. The harmony section covers the whole technique of common chords and their inversions. Counterpoint is initially discussed as a vocal art and the early exercises explore the art of Palestrina and the English Tudor composers. In the improvisation section many keyboard techniques are introduced such as transposition chord progression and simple harmonisation.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECModernism in Focus brings together challenging but rewarding works by Picasso Matisse Joyce Eliot Stravinsky Debussy and Schoenberg examines what they have in common and how they define Modernism. Suitable for both students and teachers this guide provides some much needed insight into Modernists??? apparent obsession with strange chords characters and colours discord sex madness and violence. It also takes a look at tonality atonality expressionism and serialism from a new perspective.

If you would like to look at a complicated rhythmic figure and instantly know how it sounds then this book is for you. The only way to sight-read rhythms fluently is to think not in terms of how long notes last but in terms of what rhythmic sound might occur within each beat. This book shows you how to memorise the sound of each of the various combinations of notes that commonly occur within one beat. If you think in terms of beats you can sight-read rhythms successfully because the beat remains constant. You'll discover the difference between duple and triple time simple and compound time and how to instantly play odd groupings.