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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 | |