Basic Music Theory By Joe Procopio: The Only Award-Winning Music Theory Book Available Worldwide

By Joe Procopio

BASIC MUSIC THEORY By Joe Procopio Basic Music Theory by Joe Procopio is the only music theory book to receive the coveted 5 Star Award from the respected International Book Review Company Reader’s Favorite. It is simply the best and easiest to read book about the basics in music. It teaches you how to quickly hear and understand everythin

• Language: English
• Publisher: JoeCopio Music LLC
• Release date: Mar 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781483566962

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BASIC MUSIC THEORY

By Joe Procopio

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Some Signs And Symbols

Naming Musical Tones

Knowing Kinds Of Notes

Dotted Notes

Time Signatures

Understanding All Time Signatures

The General Meaning Of Step And Stepwise

Whole Steps And Half Steps

The Specific Meaning Of Sharps And Flats

Finding Sharps And Flats

The Specific Meaning Of Whole Step And Half Step

Enharmonic Tones

The Chromatic Scale

Reviewing Half Steps And Whole Steps

The Tetrachord

The Major Scale

Keys And Key Signatures

The Major Keys (With The Relative Minor)

The Relative Minor

Intervals

The Specific Naming Of Intervals

The Harmonic Series

Naming Altered Intervals

Further Alterations Of Intervals

Compound Intervals

Two Methods For The Specific Naming Of Intervals - Method I

Method II

A Summary For Naming Intervals

Chords

Chord Qualities - The 5 Basic Chord Qualities Of Triads

A Guide To The Various Letter Names Of Triads

Seventh Chords

The 5 Basic Chord Qualities Of Seventh Chords

Inversions - Naming Chords That Are Inverted

More Inversions

A Guide To Some Of The Various Symbols Used To Name 7th Chords

Naming Chords With No Root The Augmented Triad And The Fully Diminished Seventh Chord

How Knowing 4 Augmented Chords Means Knowing All 12

How Knowing Only 4 Fully Diminished 7th Chords Means Knowing All 12

A Guide To A Few Less Frequently Used Chords

An Easy Method For Learning 7th Chords

The 48 Chord System

The 4 Most Common 7th Chord Qualities {Learn All Your Chords }In One Easy Exercise

ADDENDUM {A Reference For Keys, Scales and Chords}

BASIC MUSIC THEORY

By Joe Procopio

NOMENCLATURE:

SOME SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

Understanding the language of Music is based on learning a system of names ~ nomenclature.

The tone C shown here in the diagram below is the same tone in all 4 clefs:

Musical Notes or Tones

A Musical Tone is the sound of anything that vibrates with an even number or regular vibrations that can be measured. Noise, on the other hand, is generally defined as vibrations that are irregular and uneven.

A Sharp raises the sound of a tone.

A Flat lowers the sound of a tone.

A Natural means the tone is neither sharp nor flat.

A Double Sharp (also written as ) raises the sound of a tone twice.

A Double Flat lowers the sound of a tone twice

NAMING MUSICAL TONES

Musical tones have names that use only 7 letters of the alphabet.

The Musical Alphabet:   A   B   C   D   E   F   G

In the Treble Clef the names of the musical tones are:

In the Bass Clef the names of the musical tones are:

In the Treble Clef the note A is on the 2nd space:

In the Bass Clef the note A is on the 1st space:

Since A is on the 2nd space in the Treble Clef, notes written above A are in alphabetical order:

Notes that are below the 2nd space are still alphabetical but in order to find them you have to think the alphabet in reverse or backwards:

Finding and naming notes in the Bass Clef is similar to the method used for the Treble Clef. The important difference is that the note A is found on the 1st space of the Bass Clef.

To find