Master musical skills quickly and easily!
From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life.
Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major,
The Everything Essential Music Theory Book
is a guide to mastering one of the most important tools for every musician: musical understanding. This compact, portable volume covers all the basics, including:
The construction of chords and scales
How to understand rhythm and time signatures
How keys are identified and organized
Creating harmonization and melody
With each clear and easy-to-understand chapter, musician and educator Marc Schonbrun takes you through the essentials of music theory—the very glue that holds music together.