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Index
The Chapter Everyone Skips
About The Book
What’s Inside
How to Use the Special Features
Moving On
A Brief History of Musical Notation
Hear, There, Everywhere
Magical Powers of Music (aka Psychology of Music)
Lines, Lines, Everywhere There’s Lines
Everything You Don’t Hear
Moving On
Chapter 2 Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
More Lines
Bar Lines and Double Bar Lines
Chapter 3 Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Where’s the Beat?
Time, Rhythm, & The Beat
The Notes
Moving On
Chapter 4 Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
The Sound of Silence
Take a Rest
The Rests of the Story
Rests On The Staff
Moving On
Chapter 5 Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part One Review
Whew! You Made it
Moving On
Meter &Time Signature
Not the Metric System
Time
Time
Time
Moving On
Chapter 6 Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Down for the Count
If You Can Count to 4, You’re All Set
Tap Your Foot
Quarter Note Count
Half Note Count
Whole Note Count
Mix ‘Em Up
Count the Rest
All Together Now
Moving On
Chapter 7 Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
New Notes
Eighth Notes and Rests
Sweet Sixteenth Notes
How to Figure out a Tough Rhythm
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Seeing Dots
You Are Not Seeing Things
The Dotted Whole Note
The Dotted Half Note
The Dotted Quarter Note
Dotted Eighth Notes
Dotted Rests
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Triplets
General Tuplet Information
Eighth Note Triplet
Sixteenth Note Triplets
Quarter Note Triplets
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part Two Review
Whew! You Made it
Moving On
The Practiceof Practice
Practice is Not What You Think. Nor is it Otherwise.
The Practice Pinwheel Breakdown
What is Practice and Why Does it Matter?
Why: Motivation and Practice
Who? You: Your Notions of Talent Affect Motivation
When: Time and Practice
Where: Place and Practice
How to Get Better
Selected Practice Strategies
Scratching the Surface
The Wind-up & the Pitch
Spaced Out and Lined Up
What? More Lines?
At Home on the Ranges
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
A Note by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet
What’s in a Name?
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Going Over the Clef
What’s a Clef?
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
No Trouble with Treble
Gee Whiz
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
At the Bass of the Clef
This Clef is not a Fish
More Mnemonics
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
I Got Rhythm (Clef)
Can You Count to 4?
Why No Note Names?
The 5-Line Staff with Rhythm Clef
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part Three Review
Whew! You Made it
Moving On
Coming to Terms With Music
Musical Terms Are Directions
Dynamics
Tempo
Articulations & Accents
Phrases & Ties & Slurs, oh My
General Musical Terms
Pete and Repeat
Moving On
Accidentals on Purpose
Accidentals are no Accident
General Accidental Information
Flats
Sharps
Naturals
More Accidental Rules
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
The Piano Keyboard
Why Learn the Piano Keyboard?
Note Names on the Keyboard
Half Steps and Whole Steps
The Chromatic Scale
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Major Scales
Musical DNA: The Major Scale
Showing Whole and Half Steps
Octave
Scales with Accidentals
Major Scales with Many Accidentals
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Unlock the Secret of Key Signatures
Key Signature Basics
Flat Key Signatures
Sharp Key Signatures
The Key of C
Major v. Minor
The Keys to the Kingdom: All Major Key Signatures
The Circle of Fifths (a.k.a. Cycle of Fourths)
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
The Guitar Fingerboard
Basic Guitar Details
The Strings of the Guitar
Half Steps and the Guitar
All Notes on Guitar
Scales on Guitar
Chords on Guitar
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part Four Review
Whew! You Made it
Moving On
Intervals
Intervals by the Number
Interval Quality
Altering Perfect Intervals
Altering Major Intervals
Finding an Interval
A Brief Note on Ear Training
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Minor Scales& Keys
General Minor Scale Info
The Natural Minor Scale
Minor or Major Key Signature? How to Tell
Parallel and Relative Minor Scales
Coming Full Circle: Minor Keys on the Circle of Fifths
The Harmonic Minor Scale
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Scales a la Mode
What is a Mode?
The Modes
Finding Modes in Other Keys
Modes Using Other Scales
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Blues to Bebop & Beyond
General Blues Scale Info
The Blues Scale
Other Cool Scales
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part Five Review
Whew! You Made it
Moving On
How to Conduct Yourself
General Conducting Info
Conducting Patterns
The Left Hand
Practicing Conducting
Conductors to Check Out
Moving On
Triads
General Chord Info
The Basic Triad
Major Triads
Minor Triads
Diminished Triads
Augmented Triads
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Chord Extensions
General Chord Extension Info
Seventh Chords
Ninth Chords
Other Chords
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Chord Inversions
More General Chord Info
First Inversion
Second Inversion
Inverting Seventh Chords
How to Find a Chord’s Name and Function
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Chord Progressions
What is a Chord Progression?
Chord Progression General Guidelines
The I-IV-V7-I Progression
The ii-V7- I Progression
The iii-vi-ii-V7-I Progression
Plagal Cadences (IV-I)
The 12 Bar Blues Progression
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part Six Review
Whew! You Made it
Moving On
The Faster and the Slower
Shorter Notes
Double Dotted Notes
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Double Flats & Double Sharps
Double Your Fun
A Werd on Spelling Kords
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
More Meters
More than Four-four
Cut Time, Alla Breve, or Time
Odd Meters
Moving On
Chapter Study Guide
Practical Use Exercises
Part Seven Review
Whew! You Made it!
Moving On
Take a Bow
You Did It!
Take Your Music-Reading Skills to the Next Level
Move Beyond the Page into the Real Music
Free Stuff
Drop Me A Note (pun intended)
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