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    The "Fiddy Cent Guide" to Understanding Music (for Guitar)
    The "Fiddy Cent Guide" to Understanding Music (for Guitar)
    The "Fiddy Cent Guide" to Understanding Music (for Guitar)
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    The "Fiddy Cent Guide" to Understanding Music (for Guitar)

    By Deacon Martin

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    Music is a mysterious place. It is close to being mathematically perfect, but not quite.

    Although the original western scales devised by the Greeks were simply multiples of certain lengths of vibrating string, many factors have conspired to make contemporary western scales a little more complicated. For example, to work out the frequency of any note on the piano you would have to apply the following formula:

    Pn = Pa(12√2)(n-a)

    This would tell you that the frequency of A is 440 Hertz, B is 493.88 Hertz, C is 523.25 Hertz, and so on. These are irregular increments and these irregular increments have implications for all the western scales - but, luckily for you, none for us here today. We're going to keep away from this stuff.

    Table of Contents

    - Basic basics
    - Notes and Scales
    - Keys
    - Chords
    - Jamming in C
    - Jamming Elsewhere
    - One More Key
    - Stop Reading

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEast Coast Road Productions
    Release dateMar 24, 2014
    ISBN9781311242488
    The "Fiddy Cent Guide" to Understanding Music (for Guitar)
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    Deacon Martin

    Deacon Martin is a writer, director, comedian, musician, and actor from Bristol, United Kingdom.

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      The "Fiddy Cent Guide" to Understanding Music (for Guitar) - Deacon Martin

      the Fiddy Cent Guide

      to Understanding Music

      (for Guitar)

      I wish somebody had written this for me.

      by Deacon Martin

      ...the man they couldn't corrupt.

      copyright Deacon Martin / ecrp 2014

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      Deacon Martin's Fiddy Cent Guide

      to Understanding Music

      (for Guitar)

      Music is a mysterious place. It is close to being mathematically perfect, but not quite.

      Although the original western scales devised by the Greeks were simply multiples

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