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 enlarge | Author: Michael Miller
Publisher: Alpha
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 1743
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592574378
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9781592574377
ASIN: 1592574378
Publication Date: September 6, 2005
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 Recommend for all with Music Theory Questions August 29, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've loved music and been playing for a long time but always had difficulty understanding just what those teachers were getting at when they discussed scales and other theory. This book will make a huge difference with that.
It's very easy to understand, provides very thorough information, and covers more than you probably wanted to know. I've never used another book so I can't compare but I enjoyed this one so much I doubt I'll look too much for another.
Bottom line: Throughout this book I found myself thinking, "Why haven't I heard this before? It makes so much sense and will be so helpful! Why can't every teach music theory this way?"
I'm buying three of these for backups August 7, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have a total of 7 music theory books that I've spent some good money on, all have left me hanging in limbo land wondering what the F____ they are talking about.
This is the only book that breaks things down and sticks to the point.
I have to give a hand to the author on this one, because I'm getting somewhere now! This review comes from my heart on an issue that I've given up on more than once.
Thanks Mr. Miller, this book actually works and makes sense!
Easy to Understand May 7, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The content is well organized and, for me, brought together a lot of bits and pieces I had learned over the years and made it much clearer. The accompanying CD was useful and fun. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in music.
 Incompetent. March 28, 2007
14 out of 101 found this review helpful
First off anyone who gave this book five stars was employed by the publisher to up the rating that simple. I mean look at some of them they are so cheesy one of them actually refers to the author as Mr. Miller who is he brown nosing for sounds like a greeting card they are so "textbooky" and insincere. The book itself is almost entirely filler on how to read music (which half the music books in Borders are or they are just giant scale books that are reemed out like saw dust totally useless, which leads to the great difficulty on how to actually find an explantion to this jargon and then someone comes along and says they have an answer that will make things clear but then they fall short) up until half the the book and many times periodically things are just repeated terminology loosely defined such as hook which is just recording industry jargon not theory. Book never goes into the physical principals that would actually explain some things in it as to why the notes themselves are in the order they are such as acoustics, never got an answer as to what a whole step or a half step was by the way and when I asked many teachers and questioned them they knew nothing or gave a circular answer defining it themselves without an outside reference only to find that they were just parroting it all along. The problems with this is everything is assumed in the entire field. I recommend the only book that I have found that made some sense to me called Fractals in Music by Charles Madden much more organized and assembles things from the very beginning working into more and more complex shapes and structures.
Excellent Intro to Music Theory March 24, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am new to learing the piano, but I got to the point where I felt that I wanted to understand the music I am practicing. This book is excellent for explaining music syntax. It also has a CD so you can hear what is being explained. I have found that I enjoy practicing the piano more because now I see so much more on the music sheet. I am understanding what is happening in the music and why it is written the way it is. Don't let the title "Idiot's Guide to" put you off, it is an excellent and easily comprehensible book.
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