George Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation, taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom experience. It is now published for the first time as Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory.
This book is designed for anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of music theory, whether beginner or more advanced. The first two chapters deal with music fundamentals, and may be skipped by those with music reading experience. Each chapter contains many examples that clearly illustrate the concepts presented. Written exercises at the end of each chapter allow the reader to test and apply their knowledge.
Topics include: basic music-reading instruction; triads in root position; triads in inversion; cadences; non-harmonic tones; the dominant seventh chord; other seventh chords; and more.
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Learn the essential elements of music theory for vocalists performing contemporary music, be it jazz, pop, rock, gospel or R&B. This self-study book is for singers who aspire to perform or who may already be leading a band, going to jam sessions, or studying with a teacher, but who have not learned music theory and want to learn in a fun and interactive way. Online audio tracks are included so you can sing along as you learn the major scales and key signatures, and you can also use the background tracks provided for vocal improvisation.
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This concert-sized paper provides sixteen staves per page, accommodating a large amount of music in a compact space.
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This pack of manuscript paper just for drummers features 64 pages with 8 staves on a page. It includes a PAS Drum Rudiments Guide and Drum Notation Legend.
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Make your practice perfect with Playbook: Music Theory. Containing the fundamentals of music theory in a pocket-sized guide, this is the ideal partner for the beginner. The Playbook is compact and practical, allowing you to take it with you wherever you go. Whether you keep it at home or leave one in your bag, you will always have it to hand, ready to look up that crucial bit of theory. Because of this useful structure and design, you will learn and retain the content with ease. Despite its unassuming size, a wealth of information is contained within, including everything a beginner will need to know. At the beginning, the guide takes you through the stave, the different clefs and basic note values. As you progress, you will learn about the circle of fifths, scales and chords. As an introduction, this covers all bases, and its miniature size makes it the clearest possible resource for a beginner to the murky world of music theory. 2-3/4″ x 4″
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Don't trust strangers on the internet with your musical dreams! The Do-It-Yourself series from Hal Leonard helps adults (and young adults) achieve their music-making dreams with carefully-curated instruction by trusted experts. Complete with audio demos, these books provide you with easy-to-learn lessons to give you a solid foundation to start making music as soon as you'd like! Written with the use of well-known songs, you'll be making music while still learning to play!
Do-It-Yourself Ear Training is designed to empower you with essential listening skills, problem-solving abilities, goal setting, and a deeper understanding of yourself as a musician. Develop a strong musical intuition, by diving into introspective exercises designed to explore your musical identity and unlock your full potential as a musician on your terms. The power to cultivate your ear and deepen your understanding of music is now literally in your hands – no matter where you are!
You'll learn how to:
• Sharpen your listening skills
• Enhance problem-solving skills
• Set goals for musical growth
• Optimize productivity and efficiency
• Feel the rhythm, master time
• Visualize and meditate
A full audiobook is included, allowing you to practice anytime, anywhere. Whether you're on a morning commute, lounging at home, or taking a walk in the park, simply plug in your headphones and dive into a world of musical exploration!
The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code on page 1. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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20 stave big band score pad, 18x12, 40 sheets, includes Jazz Articulation/Range chart.
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If you are already good at reading and writing quarter note and eighth note rhythms, and want to up your game, this is the book for you. Supported by recordings of the exercises, and worksheets that help you practice the material, you will learn 16th notes through triplets of all rates, syncopations, triple meters, odd meters, and even 32nd notes and beyond. Whether you are a vocalist, a student of any instrument, or a composer, this step-by-step method will prepare you to read and correctly write nearly any rhythms you will ordinarily encounter.
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32-page stitched book with Mickey Mouse character on each page; large 6-staves per page; 8-1/2″x8-1/2″; includes music notation guide.
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These theory papers for piano contain exercises in rhythm and notation, and are so designed that they may be used successfully with any system of teaching.
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The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Level Two is an intermediate-level course covering larger chord forms, “definitive” chords in major and minor keys, substitutions, analysis of key centers in tunes, “upper structure” chords, voiceleading, and pentatonic and blues scale applications. Both levels include reference appendices, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.
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Teach Yourself Music Theory was created specifically for the beginner student who may have experience with playing an instrument, but who may also seek to build up their knowledge of rhythm, melody, harmony, and form. Beginning with learning how to read music, Teach Yourself Music Theory offers the beginning music student not only a comprehensive introduction to music theory fundamentals, but a quick, effective, uncomplicated, and practical way to prepare the student for the option of further explorations into the world of music theory. In addition to learning intervals, scales, chords, and reading charts, this book covers: Key signatures and the circle of 5ths; Harmonizing scales; Inversions; Diatonic versus non-diatonic melodies and chords; and more! This resource also includes audio piano demonstrations of the music within, as well as periodic check-ins to help you review and retain the material. The book also features plastic comb binding so it lays flat for easy use.
The book also includes access to recorded demonstrations. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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The intricacies of chord theory can be intimidating to the average musician. In this book, author David Pearl breaks down the following topics in an easy-to-understand way: intervals • chord qualities and functions • power chords, triads and seventh chords • chord extensions • modulation and transposition • song forms • and advanced chord types. All of these concepts are further demonstrated using popular songs, some of which include “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, “Pinball Wizard” by the Who, “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder, “Yesterday” by the Beatles and many more.
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A straightforward, informative format book, explaining notation, note value, rests, time signature, sharps and flats, musical terms, a chord reference chart and a guide to instrument ranges and transcription. Over eighty 12-line, durable tear-out sheets, printed on both sides.
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40 sheets of 8-1/2 x 11 guitar chord pad sheet music.
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26 stave orchestral score pad with instrumentation labels, 12x18, 40 sheets, includes Orchestral Range/Transposition Chart.
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This essential guide is a full course for today's musician. It covers everything from the fundamentals of sound and music notation to popular song forms and chord scales for improvisation.
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The Tab Writing Book contains 44 tear-out pages of tablature paper suitable for guitar, banjo or any string folk instruments. With blank chord boxes it also features a concise guitar, banjo and mandolin chord dictionary and sections on tunings, scales, theory and symbols.
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Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring “outside” the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.
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Whether you're a beginner, an amateur, a professional or a teacher, you will find this book an excellent means of continuing your musical journey. This is a step-by-step guide to help you develop essential skills for improvisation. The concepts presented are first demonstrated over the 12-bar blues progression; in later chapters, the ideas are realized over rhythm changes and in original compisitions based on the chord progressions of jazz standards. Topics include: scales and modes • chords and riffs • transposition • musical quotation • phrasing and articulation.
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Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring “outside” the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.
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This is a book of sturdy manuscript paper, with tear-out sheets, that combines a dictionary of music terms, rudiments of music notation and instructions for music writing for various instruments. 48 pages, 12 staves per page.
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This two-book series includes a wealth of material used to teach harmony and theory in college-level courses by George Heussenstamm, author of the Norton Manual of Musical Notation. Part 2 – Chromatic introduces readers to modulation and more advanced harmonies, covering: secondary dominants; borrowed chords; the Neapolitan 6th chord; augmented 6th chords; 9th, 11th and 13th chords; and more. In addition to text, the book features many musical examples that illustrate the concepts, and exercises that allow readers to test and apply their knowledge.
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Perfect pitch – also called absolute pitch – has been a source of endless fascination for hundreds of years. The ability to recognize musical tones with no reference is often viewed as a kind of magical power, a gift that only a select few musicians are born with, a skill that cannot be learned. But perfect pitch is largely a misunderstood phenomenon. The Hal Leonard Perfect Pitch Method is designed to help you develop a sense of perfect pitch. In the process, your overall musicianship will benefit and you'll start listening to music on a deeper level while getting more satisfaction from it. At the heart of this book is a series of 49 ear-training sessions, one per day for seven weeks, included on the online audio. Many of the lessons include three separate drills. You can do just one and save the others for later, or all three at the same time. Take your time, advancing to the next session only when you're satisfied with your results on the previous session. Pretty soon, you'll notice a marked improvement in your pitch acuity!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Working on pieces for the standard concert band is easy with this handy pad, engraved with instrument names and clefs.
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Learn to play with jazz phrasing and articulation. These 27 duets are in jazz and jazz-influenced styles such as swing, bebop, funk, samba, and others. They are appropriate for performance by any melodic instruments. The duets feature independent contrapuntal lines, and practicing them will give you intimate insight into how these constructs sound and can be used to create a wide variety of colors. You will improve your ear, sense of timing, phrasing, and your facility in bringing theoretical principles into musical expression. You will learn to use: jazz staccato and legato articulations • scales, modes, harmonies and other structures • various meters and ways of interpreting them • phrasing within and between measures • swing feel • and more.
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Part paper, 9x12, double sheets, double sided, 24 sheets, 10 staves.
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Counterpoint is the technique of composing two or more melodic lines that are sounded at the same time. Whether a guitar riff against a vocal melody, a bass line against a keyboard melody, or a violin and cello duet, in good counterpoint, these musical lines work together while also maintaining a unique identity. This book combines the foundational principles of traditional classical counterpoint with modern-day examples, demonstrating how counterpoint can play an important role in today's popular music. Concepts include: intervals; melodic motion; writing melodies; voice leading; species counterpoint; practical uses in different styles; and more. Includes access to online audio examples of counterpoint analysis and exercises!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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