Music Theory Book - Free Download

#82
BassyBill said:
I found this online and thought it could be useful to a number of people who come to the GI forum looking for help with theory at a range of levels. It's quite nicely written and although a quick scan of this forum will show that almost any aspect of theory can be discussed at length, this little book is certainly not a bad place to start for those who want a solid background on which to base further study and investigation.

Note that the book was originally in three separate parts (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) to keep filesizes down, but I merged it into one PDF of eighty pages as the size of this single file is very reasonable these days with current connection speeds available to most Internet users.

The descriptions Basic, Intermediate and Advanced are relative to each other and of course there are aspects of theory that aren't covered (for example, the mathematics of temperament and hence how we get our usual chromatic scale). It's also somewhat guitar-orientated and inevitably there's a few typos here and there. But hey, it's only eighty pages and it's FREE.

http://www.billygreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Music Theory - Basic, Intermediate, Advanced.pdf

I'm sure it's okay to post this here as the information can be freely downloaded, used and copied for educational and non-profit purposes (it says so in the introduction). Acknowledgement is due to "Eowyn" at www.mysongbook.com

I hope some of you find this useful and interesting - enjoy the read!
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Thanks Bill!
 
#87
Thanks for the download....very much appreciated.

I have a question if anyone is still looking at this thread and it may be that I don't know anything or it could be a typo. The table on Page 4 (below) shows one step up from the root being M2, or Major 2nd. I thought it would be a minor 2nd being one note down from the 2. It appears the same for the 6 where I thought it should be a minor 6 (m6) but it is shown as a M6. Can someone clear this up for me please.

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#88
BassyBill said:
I found this online and thought it could be useful to a number of people who come to the GI forum looking for help with theory at a range of levels. It's quite nicely written and although a quick scan of this forum will show that almost any aspect of theory can be discussed at length, this little book is certainly not a bad place to start for those who want a solid background on which to base further study and investigation.

Note that the book was originally in three separate parts (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) to keep filesizes down, but I merged it into one PDF of eighty pages as the size of this single file is very reasonable these days with current connection speeds available to most Internet users.

The descriptions Basic, Intermediate and Advanced are relative to each other and of course there are aspects of theory that aren't covered (for example, the mathematics of temperament and hence how we get our usual chromatic scale). It's also somewhat guitar-orientated and inevitably there's a few typos here and there. But hey, it's only eighty pages and it's FREE.

http://www.billygreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Music Theory - Basic, Intermediate, Advanced.pdf

I'm sure it's okay to post this here as the information can be freely downloaded, used and copied for educational and non-profit purposes (it says so in the introduction). Acknowledgement is due to "Eowyn" at www.mysongbook.com

I hope some of you find this useful and interesting - enjoy the read!
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Can someone repost the download???? The link provided is not working
 
#90
BassyBill said:
I found this online and thought it could be useful to a number of people who come to the GI forum looking for help with theory at a range of levels. It's quite nicely written and although a quick scan of this forum will show that almost any aspect of theory can be discussed at length, this little book is certainly not a bad place to start for those who want a solid background on which to base further study and investigation.

Note that the book was originally in three separate parts (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) to keep filesizes down, but I merged it into one PDF of eighty pages as the size of this single file is very reasonable these days with current connection speeds available to most Internet users.

The descriptions Basic, Intermediate and Advanced are relative to each other and of course there are aspects of theory that aren't covered (for example, the mathematics of temperament and hence how we get our usual chromatic scale). It's also somewhat guitar-orientated and inevitably there's a few typos here and there. But hey, it's only eighty pages and it's FREE.

http://www.billygreen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Music Theory - Basic, Intermediate, Advanced.pdf

I'm sure it's okay to post this here as the information can be freely downloaded, used and copied for educational and non-profit purposes (it says so in the introduction). Acknowledgement is due to "Eowyn" at www.mysongbook.com

I hope some of you find this useful and interesting - enjoy the read!
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Is there a new link to download this
 
#98
I appreciate the time you took to do this. I have started one book series and two websites and always wind up confused.

I've been playing guitar since I was a kid in the late 70s and bass for ten years and just started trying to learn theory and jazz last Winter on guitar. Started again this Winter on bass.

I'm going to just chew on this PDF for a while till things clear up more.
 
#99
BAG said:
Thanks for the download....very much appreciated.

I have a question if anyone is still looking at this thread and it may be that I don't know anything or it could be a typo. The table on Page 4 (below) shows one step up from the root being M2, or Major 2nd. I thought it would be a minor 2nd being one note down from the 2. It appears the same for the 6 where I thought it should be a minor 6 (m6) but it is shown as a M6. Can someone clear this up for me please.

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I have the same question. Very odd.
 
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