- 0 The Chapter Everyone Skips Table of Contents
- Welcome to Basic Music Theory!
- Why Basic Music Theory?
- What’s Inside
- The Icons.
- Basic Music Theory: Overview
- How to Use the Special Features
- Moving On
- 1 An Ultra-brief History of Musical Notation PART ONE: START ME UP
- Hear, There, Everywhere
- Music Performed
- The Future
- Moving On
- 2 Lines, Lines, Everywhere There’s Lines
- The Staff.
- Moving On
- Chapter 2 Study Guide
- 3 More Lines.
- No Holds Barred
- What? More Lines?
- Moving On
- Chapter 3 Study Guide
- 4 The Wind-up and the Pitch
- Spaced Out and Lined Up
- The High and the Lowly
- Moving On
- Chapter 4 Study Guide
- Home, Home on the Ranges
- 5 A Note by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet
- What’s in a Name?
- Moving On
- Chapter 5 Study Guide viii
- Part I Review
- Whew! You Made It.
- The Review
- Moving On
- 6 Going Over the Clef PART TWO: CLEF NOTES
- What’s a Clef?
- The Clefs
- Moving On
- Chapter 6 Study Guide
- 7 No Trouble with Treble
- Golly G
- Moving On
- Chapter 7 Study Guide
- 8 The Bass of the Clef
- This Clef is Not a Fish!
- Nmore Mnemonics
- Moving On
- Chapter 8 Study Guide
- 9 To Fathom the Rhythm Clef
- No Letters With this Staf. .f
- Why No Note Names?
- The One-Line Staff with Rhythm Clef
- Instruments, not Pitches
- The 5-Line Staff with Rhythm Clef
- Moving On
- Chapter 9 Review
- Part II Review
- Whew! You Made It.
- The Review
- Moving On
- 10 Musical Terms INTERLUDE: COMING TO TERMS
- Musical Terms are Directions
- Tempo
- Dynamics.
- Articulations
- General Musical Terms.
- Pete and Repeat
- Moving On
- 11 Where’s the Beat? PART THREE: YOU GOT RHYTHM
- The Beat Goes On
- The Notes
- Note Anatomy
- The Stem
- Moving On
- Chapter 11 Review
- 12 The Sound of Silence
- Take a Rest
- The Rests of the Story
- Moving On
- Chapter 12 Review
- 13 Meter.
- Not the Metric System
- 4/4 Time
- 2/4 Time
- 3/4 Time
- Moving On
- Chapter 13 Review
- 14 Down With the Count
- Can You Count to 4?
- Tap Your Foot
- Quarter Note Count
- Half Note Count
- Whole Note Count
- Count the Rest
- All Together Now
- Moving On
- Chapter 14 Review x
- 15 New Notes
- Eighth Notes and Rests
- Sweet Sixteenth Notes
- How to Figure out a Tough Rhythm
- Moving On
- Chapter 15 Review
- 16 Seeing Dots
- You Are Not Seeing Things
- The Dotted Whole Note
- The Dotted Half Note.
- The Dotted Quarter Note
- Dotted Eighth Note
- Dotted Rests
- Moving On
- Chapter 16 Review
- 17 Triplets!
- General Tuplet Information
- Eighth Note Triplet
- Sixteenth Note Triplets
- Quarter Note Triplets
- Moving On
- Chapter 17 Review
- Part III Review
- Whew! You Made It
- The Review
- 18 Don’t Say Practice. INTERLUDE: TO PLAY OR NOT TO PLAY
- Don’t Say the P Word.
- Come on Baby, Light my Desire
- How to Get Better
- Start a New Habit.
- Where to Do It
- How to Do It
- The Ideal Session
- Other Ways to Play.
- Some Instruments
- 19 Accidentals On Purpose PART FOUR: SEE SHARP OR BE FLAT
- Accidentals Are No Accident
- General Accidental Information
- Flats
- Sharps
- Naturals
- More Accidental Rules
- Moving On
- Chapter 19 Review
- 20 The Piano Keyboard
- Why Learn the Keyboard?
- Note Names on the Keyboard
- Flat Notes on the Keyboard
- Sharp Notes on the Keyboard
- Enharmonic Notes
- Half Steps and Whole Steps
- The Chromatic Scale
- Moving On
- Chapter 20 Review
- 21 Major Scales.
- The Major Scale
- The C Major Scale
- Octave
- Scales with Accidentals
- Major Scales with Many Accidentals
- Moving On
- Chapter 21 Review
- 22 Unlock the Secret of Key Signatures
- Key Signatures
- Flat Key Signatures
- Find the Name of a Flat Key
- Construct a Flat Key
- Sharp Key Signatures
- Find the Name of a Sharp Key
- Construct a Sharp Key
- The Key of C
- The Keys to the Kingdom
- Moving On
- Chapter 22 Review
- Part IV Review xii
- Whew! You Made It.
- The Review
- 23 Intervals PART FIVE: INTERVAL TRAINING
- Intervals by the Number
- Interval Quality
- Altering Perfect Intervals
- Altering Major Intervals.
- Finding an Interval
- A Brief Note on Ear Training
- Moving On
- Chapter 23 Review
- 24 Minor Scales
- General Minor Scale Info
- The Natural Minor Scale
- The Harmonic Minor Scale
- The Melodic Minor Scale
- Moving On
- Chapter 24 Review
- 25 Scales a la Mode
- What is a Mode?
- The Modes
- Finding Modes in Other Keys
- Moving On
- Chapter 25 Review
- 26 Blues To Bebop and Beyond
- General Blues Scale Info
- The Blues Scale
- Other Crazy Scales
- Moving On
- Chapter 26 Review
- How to Sing the Blues (Not Really)
- Part V Review.
- Whew! You Made It.
- The Review
- 27 Conducting INTERLUDE: CONDUCTING YOURSELF
- General Conducting Information.
- Conducting Patterns
- The Left Hand
- Moving On
- 28 Triads PART SIX: STRIKE A CHORD
- General Chord Info
- The Triad
- Major Triads
- Minor Triads
- Diminished Triads
- Augmented Triads
- Moving On
- Chapter 28 Review
- 29 Chord Extensions
- General Chord Extension Info
- Seventh Chords
- Ninth Chords
- Other Chords
- Moving On
- Chapter 29 Review
- 30 Chord Inversions
- More General Chord Info
- First Inversion
- Second Inversion.
- Inverting Seventh Chords
- How to Find a Chord’s Name
- Moving On
- Chapter 30 Review
- 31 Chord Progressions
- What is a Chord Progression?.
- Chord Progression General Guidelines
- The I IV V^7 I Progression.
- The ii V^7 I Progression
- The iii vi ii V^7 I Progression
- The 12 Bar Blues.
- Moving On xiv
- Chapter 31 Review
- Part VI Review
- Whew! You Made It.
- The Review
- 32 Faster Notes and Double Dots PART SEVEN: MORE OF THE SAME
- Shorter Notes
- Double Dotted Notes
- Moving On
- Chapter 32 Review
- 33 Double Flats, Double Sharps
- Double Your Fun
- Double Flats
- Double Sharps
- A Werd on Spelling Kords
- Moving On
- Chapter 33 Review
- 34 More Meters
- Beyond 4/4 Time
- Cut Time, or 2/2 Time
- 6/8 Time
- Odd Meters.
- Moving On
- Chapter 34 Review
- Part VII Review
- Whew! You Made It.
- The Review
- 35 What Comes Next.
- So Much More
- Theory Ain’t Everything
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