Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory Complete Self Study Guide: A Complete Self-study Course for All Musicians

I purchased this product when starting to learn the violin as an adult beginner. I had no previous experience in learning how to read music so this book was a godsend. This main book is split in to three different sections. It is clearly and concisely written and easy to understand.It contains a lot of practical exercises for writing music and also a review at the end of each chapter. It also uniquely contains two cd's along with ear exercises to improve your listening skills. As a workbook that you can do in your own time I would highly recommend this book for all ages. This book has allowed me to get the most out of my lessons with the teacher so we could concentrate on playing the violin as opposed to trying to tackle the music theory as well. I can not find anything to criticise in the content as it is good basic material. I would state that whilst working through the work book some pages did become loose from the binding.

One of the very best books in this subject

Arrived on time. At first thought there is one Cd.. later saw both were packed in one..:) Studied till page 11 and wondered how beautifuly it explains the grand staff so many details and good excercises that really make one learn. It makes the learning process fun actually and highly recommend for anyone who wants learn music theory...

Simple, but effective. Some great exercises to help you grasp the basics!

Simply perfect.

This is a very useful book with a comprehensive range of exercises for those who are beginning to study music theory.

Great instructing music theory book.

its not great but alright for music learning at beginners level.

Me llegó antes de lo previsto, y es todo lo que esperaba. Al haberlo comprado de segunda mano tenía algunas cosas escritas que tuve que borrar, para poder hacer los ejercicios yo misma. Pero aparte de eso, muy contenta.

This is a perfect practice book for music theory

I am very happy with this book, i have learnt a lot, i have finished 1st part. Its explained very nicely.

This title taught me all of the basics I'd forgotten. I like anything published by Alfred, good company. If you're sincere about playing the piano or guitar or guitars :-), no matter if you're amateur/novice or professional, this bit of software could be for you and enable you to eventually help you to play like a pro, the easier way! EZ KEYS by: Toontrack EZ Keys should help revolutionize the music business. Why? If you can tap out the melody of a song, you can essentially write beautiful music. Indeed, it's just a matter of time until the major DAW's add this important feature to their software. Although EZ seamlessly integrates and works well within all of the major programs and hardware. Don't just take my word for it, uh Forrest:-) Google it and see what you find. I can tell you now, it's gonna be good! EZ Keys as like having a gifted college music professor sitting beside you everyday as you write and compose your tunes daily, while slowly but surely learning how to write and play. This college music professor is with you everyday while you play, correcting you and helping you to superstardom. or, maybe just stardom. Everyone doesn't want to be a superstar. The beauty of it all is that you don't have to go online to do all this. Learning this way bends the learning curve to shorten the time it takes to become professionally proficient at the keyboard. I love this type of on the job training. Hours go by so quickly........... Lot's of times I start writing and toying around with this program, look up at the clock and two hours have gone by. What seemed like thirty minutes was actually two hours. I love this program. All you have to do is write or play whatever you can mainly create the melody with your right hand, then compile it, then EZ automatically creates the left hand chords for you. If you want to you can also change those first few notes you've chicken pecked out (that's how I do it everyday) and alter them to triad 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths,... on up to 13ths..... and more. Realistically, rarely do you have to go over 7ths. After that Keys pops up a circle of 4ths and 5ths and let's to toy around with it to see and hear what the neighboring chords look and sound like, then you write some more then compile again, then repeat, then after doing this a dozen or so times, you've got a complete song that sounds way above your current level of play. These compositions actually makes us sound like we really can play the piano:-) And the best thing, it really does sounds good! It doesn't sound amateurish or hokey like those songs we played out of the music books with the finger numbers over and under the notes, telling us which fingers to use when playing a song. Trust me! It don't get no easier kid:-) You can play a shoestring, if you're sincere. ---John Coltrane---

The book is OK. Very clear, lots of exercises. Thank you