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Learn to read, understand, and create music. This book will help musicians of all levels communicate more effectively, learn new music faster, and memorize repertoire more easily. This approach has been developed and refined at Berklee College of Music since the 1950s and has been used by many thousands of musicians worldwide - currently as a textbook in Berklee's Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive program. Included here are the essential concepts and terminology of music, with hands-on exercises and many listening recommendations so that you can hear how these principles are used in real music - to help you see what you hear, and hear what you see. Online audio tracks illustrate every concept. Whether you are interested in rock, country, jazz, hip-hop, or any other contemporary musical style, this book will help you become a more capable, more expressive musician. You will learn to: · Understand and use the basics of music theory, such as how to read notes, rhythms, key and time signatures, and other essentials. · Play and use scales, such as major, minor, pentatonic, blues, and modes. · Construct chords, such as triads and seventh chords. · Identify and use the most common chord progressions, cadences, song forms, and arrangement techniques. · Develop more advanced chord voicings, as well as use modal harmony.

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Basic Notation and Terms
• Chapter 2: Rhythm and Meter
• Chapter 3: Pitch, Notation and the Keyboard
• Chapter 4: Intervals and Scales
• Chapter 5: Triads
• Chapter 6: Key Signatures; Circle of Fifths
• Chapter 7: Diatonic Harmony in Major Keys; Roman Numerals
• Chapter 8: Diatonic Harmony in Minor Keys
• Chapter 9: Major and Minor Key Diatonic Harmony in Seventh Chords; Harmonic Function
• Chapter 10: Tension and Avoid Notes
• Chapter 11: Form Reading: Charts and Lead Sheets
• Chapter 12: The Role of the Rhythm Section
• Chapter 13: Blues Form, Progression, and Scale
• Chapter 14: Secondary Dominants and Related II Chords
• Chapter 15: Extended Dominants; Interpolated II Chords
• Chapter 16: Compound Minor Key Harmony Using Seventh Chords
• Chapter 17: Modal Interchange
• Chapter 18: Melodic Development: Approach Notes
• Chapter 19: Substitute Dominants and Related II Chords; Extended subV7s
• Chapter 20: Standard Deceptive Resolution of the Primary Dominant
• Chapter 21: Chord Scale Theory; Modes
• Chapter 22: Diminished Chords and Chord Scales
• Chapter 23: Modulation
• Chapter 24: Blues Reharmonization
• Chapter 25: Advanced Chord Voicings: Polychords; Hybrid Chords
• Chapter 26: Contiguous Dominants and Constant Structure
• Chapter 27: Basic Signifiers of Modal music
• Chapter 28: Characteristic Pitch and Typical Cadences for Each of the Seven Modes
• Chapter 29: Pedal Point and Ostinato
• Index
• About the Authors

Catalog:	HL01149336
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Jeff Perry, Vessela Stoyanova
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Voicing:	All Instruments
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Pages:	168