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Notation Examples | |
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Diagrams, Charts... Other Examples | |
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Prelude | |
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To Students, Teachers, and Other Potential Readers | |
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About Reading Music... or Not | |
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Business Stuff | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Edly's Quick Guide to Notation | |
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The Musical Alphabets--Natural and Chromatic | |
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The (Natural) Musical Alphabet | |
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Half-Steps, Whole-Steps, and Octaves | |
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The Importance of Scales: A Pep Talk | |
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The Chromatic Scale | |
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The Major Scale | |
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Double Sharps and Double Flats | |
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Major Keys and Key Signatures | |
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"Newest Accidentals" | |
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Key Signatures | |
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Determining the (Major) Key from a Key Signature | |
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Key Signature Memory Aids | |
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Diatonic Intervals | |
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Chords: Triads | |
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Overview of Basic Chord Anatomy | |
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Creating Minor Intervals | |
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Ear-Training Preview | |
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Diatonic Harmony | |
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Harmonizing a Major Scale | |
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Diatonic Triads | |
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Chord Inversion | |
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Determining the Root and Chord Type of an Unknown Chord | |
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Chord-Tone Doubling | |
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Chromatic Intervals | |
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Chromatic Alteration of Intervals | |
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Less Common Enharmonic Soellings of Intervals | |
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I, IV, V and the Twelve Bar Blves | |
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Twelve Bar Blues Part I | |
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Blues Phrase Structure | |
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Blues Chordology | |
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iim, iiim, vim, and vii Chords... Intro to Chord Substitution | |
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Common Diatonic Progressions Which Inclvde iim, iiim, and vim | |
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Minor Scales and Keys | |
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The Major's Sad Covsin: the Relative Minor, Your Cousin Alice... and the Natural Minor Scale | |
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The Natural Minor Scale | |
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Using the Major Scale to Define Other Scales | |
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The Harmonic Minor Scale | |
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The Melodic Minor Scale | |
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The Circle of Fifths (and Fourths) | |
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Chords: 7ths (and 6ths) | |
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Symmetrical Chords and Functions | |
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Diatonic Chords and Functions | |
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Diatonic Seventh Chords | |
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Diatonic Chord Functions in Major Keys | |
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Diatonic Chord Functions in Minor Keys | |
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Interval Inversion | |
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Intervals for Ear-Training | |
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General Sound of Various Intervals | |
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Ear-Training Methods | |
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Secondary Dominants and Other Secondary Chords | |
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Secondary Dominants | |
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Other Secondary Chords | |
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Multiple Secondary Dominants | |
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Modulating with Secondary Chords | |
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Transposition | |
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Transposition and "Transposing Instruments" | |
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Transposing by Changing Clefs | |
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Cadences | |
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Cadence Types and Definitions | |
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Tritone Substitution | |
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The "Substitute iim7" chord | |
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Natural Modes | |
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The Importance of Modes: Another Pep Talk | |
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Summary of the Modal Discovery Process | |
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Pentatonic and Blues Scales | |
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Pentatonic Scales | |
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The Blves Scale | |
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More Scales | |
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"Artificial" or "Unnatural" Modes | |
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"Exotic" Pentatonics | |
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Whole-Tone and Diminished Scales | |
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Modes from Mercury | |
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Chords: 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths | |
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Ninth Chords | |
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Diatonic Ninth Chords | |
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Eleventh Chords | |
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Thirteenth Chords | |
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Chords: Summary and Exceptions | |
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Diatonic Modal Chords | |
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Modal Chord Functions | |
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Blues Structure Part II | |
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Some Other Common Song Forms | |
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Song Anatomy 101 | |
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Improvisation Ideas | |
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Scale/Mode Choices in Improvisation | |
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By Ear | |
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Coda | |
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Answers | |
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Glossary and Index | |