This book explains the essential musical fundamentals. Music Theory Basics focuses on the basics and avoids complicated exceptions. This book is also well suited for those who have always felt that learning music theory was too abstract. Numerous audio examples on the accompanying CD let you hear how the theoretical knowledge can be applied. Therefore, this is not just a theory book, but a practical book as well.
The notes
The note names
The pitch classes
Notation
The note values
The measure
How to count the note values
Triplets
Counting triplet values
Binary and ternary eighth note phrasing
More time signatures
Tempo indication
Rests
Counting note and rest values
Extending Notes Or Rests
Octave notation
The pickup measure
The repeat signs
The tone steps
The accidentals
The tone names h and b
The tones in one octave
Chromatic sequence of notes
Circle of fifths
Summary of the major scales
The intervals (distance between tones)
The chords
Primary and secondary degrees of the chords
Inversions
The Cadences
The classical cadence
The final cadences
The I-VI-IV-V turnaround
The I-VI-II-V turnaround
The II-V-I cadence
Minor cadences
The classical minor cadence
The spanish cadence
Dynamic markings
CD tracklist
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