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| Top Ten Things You Will Learn from Reading This Book | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Written Note | |
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| Why Read Music? | |
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| The Evolution of Written Music | |
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| Who Reads Music? | |
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| Different Instruments Read Different Music | |
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| The Different Forms of Written Music | |
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| Digging In | |
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| The Elements | |
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| Pitch | |
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| The Staff | |
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| Identifying Notes | |
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| Defining Clefs | |
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| Accidentals | |
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| Beat It: Rhythm | |
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| Components of Rhythm | |
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| Basic Rhythm | |
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| More Advanced Rhythms | |
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| Everthing Else | |
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| The Long and Short of Resets | |
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| Silent Notes | |
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| Whole, Half, and Quarter Rests | |
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| Smaller Rests | |
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| Other Kinds of Rests | |
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| Meter and Time | |
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| Basic Time | |
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| Simple Meter | |
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| Compound Meter | |
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| Other Meters | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Conquering Rhythm | |
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| Overcoming Rhythm | |
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| Common Rhythmic Divisions | |
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| Subdividing | |
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| Rests and Syncopations | |
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| Practicing Common Rhythms | |
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| The Language of Music | |
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| What Language? | |
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| Tempo | |
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| Dynamics | |
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| Navigation in a Score | |
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| Expression Markings and Other Music Symbols | |
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| Expression Markings | |
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| Articulations of Length | |
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| Articulations of Strength | |
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| Performance Indications | |
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| Octave Signs | |
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| Miscellaneous Symbols | |
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| Instrument-Specific Notation | |
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| Strings | |
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| Brass | |
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| Multiple Voices on One Staff | |
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| Piano | |
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| Guitar | |
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| The Key to Music: Keys and Key Signatures | |
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| The Concept of Musical Keys | |
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| The System of Key Signatures | |
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| The Circle of Keys | |
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| Relative Minor Keys | |
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| Using Keys for Particular Instruments | |
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| When No Key Signature is Used | |
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| Major Scales | |
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| Scales Defined | |
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| Basic Intervals | |
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| The Construction of a Major Scale | |
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| Musical DNA | |
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| Scales and Harmony | |
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| Applying Scales in Practice | |
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| Beyond Major Scales: The Minor Scale | |
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| Not Major, Minor | |
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| Where Minor Actually Comes From | |
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| The Variant Scales of Minor | |
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| Playing Minor Scales | |
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| Learning to Identify Minor Keys | |
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| Space and Distance: Musical Intervals | |
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| What Is an Interval? | |
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| Basic Interval Types | |
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| Enharmonic and Chromatic Intervals | |
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| Inverted and Extended Intervals | |
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| Intervals Quiz | |
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| Vertical Thinking: Triads, Chords, Apeggios, and Seventh Chords | |
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| Chords Origins | |
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| Major and Minor Triads | |
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| Diminished and Augmented Chords | |
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| Relating Triads to Major | |
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| Arpeggios | |
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| Seventh Chords | |
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| Triad Inversion | |
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| Chords Written as Symbols | |
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| Basic Harmony 101 | |
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| What Is Harmony? | |
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| Consonance vs. Dissonance | |
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| Basic Scale Harmony | |
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| Diatonic Chords | |
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| Minor Scale Harmony | |
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| The Dominant Chord | |
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| Basic Major Scale Chord Progressions | |
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| Correlating Melody and Harmony | |
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| Basics of Chord Progressions | |
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| The Other Chords | |
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| The Chord Ladder | |
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| Advanced Chord Progressions | |
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| Minor Keys | |
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| Substitute Chords | |
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| Cadences | |
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| Inversions | |
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| Voice Leading | |
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| Smooth Bass | |
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| Other Scales | |
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| Modes | |
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| Seven Modal Scales | |
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| Looking at Modes on Their Own | |
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| Other Important Scales | |
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| Transposing Instruments | |
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| What Is Transposing? | |
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| Transposing Chant | |
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| Bb Instruments | |
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| Eb Instruments | |
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| F Instruments | |
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| Octave Transposes | |
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| Musical Shorthand: Reading Lead Sheets | |
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| Standard Notation | |
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| The Elements | |
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| Chord Rhythm | |
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| Building a Bass | |
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| Chord Charts | |
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| How to Simplify a Lead Sheet | |
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| Scale and Chord Reference | |
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| Ranges of Common Instruments | |
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| Solutions to Exercises | |
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| Index | |