All the material you need to know to take the London College Of Music Grade 1 exam in Popular Theory. The book introduces and explains the theory behind popular music as well as being a great help in passing the exam. Clear and well presented all instrumentalists of popular music will find this an invaluable aid in learning the musical foundations of popular music.

This wall chart gives a complete easy-to-understand graphical overview of the most important elements of music: note names intervals note and rest values and counting clefs and other elements of notation as well as thenotes on the staff and their location on the keyboard. Note: The sample for this product is an image of the entire chart. It may take a while to load.Dimensions: 24' x 35'.

A self-study course with illustrations and examples for you to write and check your answers. Topics include: major and minor scales; modes and other scales; harmony; intervals; chord structure; chord progressions and substitutions; and more. This workbook contains essential ???backbone??? concepts for working musicians. These are the things you must know. It may take a year to work through and thoroughly understand and memorize all that is in this book and a lifetime to perfect it. But that's okay: You will own this valuable resource and have it for handy reference.

Improve Your Theory! Grades 1 5 are the latest additions to the bestselling ‘Improve your …’ series by Paul Harris.This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 1 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural.This book contains:Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory.Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations.Fun gamesand quizzes to engage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts.Questions that connect theory directly with pupils’ own pieces allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice.Opportunities for composing improvising aural and listening activities all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding.

Improve Your Theory! Grades 1 - 5 are the latest additions to the bestselling 'Improve your - ' series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 3 ABRSM examination.Firmly rooted in Paul Harris' Simultaneous Learning approach it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural!Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory.Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations.Fun games and quizzes toengage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts. Questions that connect theory directly with pupils' own pieces - allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice. Opportunities for composing improvising aural and listening activities all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding.

This book will take students through the topics required for the mandatory ABRSM Grade 5 exam building upon the information covered in the preceding books and tackling subjects in an organised and logical way. It introduces the subjects of transposition irregular time signatures chord sequences and cadences.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECModernism in Focus brings together challenging but rewarding works by Picasso Matisse Joyce Eliot Stravinsky Debussy and Schoenberg examines what they have in common and how they define Modernism. Suitable for both students and teachers this guide provides some much needed insight into Modernists??? apparent obsession with strange chords characters and colours discord sex madness and violence. It also takes a look at tonality atonality expressionism and serialism from a new perspective.