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    Music Theory: A Complete Guide to Understand the Fundamental of Music for Beginners
    Music Theory: A Complete Guide to Understand the Fundamental of Music for Beginners
    Music Theory: A Complete Guide to Understand the Fundamental of Music for Beginners
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    Music Theory: A Complete Guide to Understand the Fundamental of Music for Beginners

    Written by Carl C. Jones

    Narrated by Shawntay Fields

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    About this audiobook

    Music is an art form of combining different sound notes to express feelings, ideas and emotions by using the elements such as harmony, rhythm, color and melody.

    The essence of music fulfills a variety of purposes in our daily life: aesthetic pleasure, during ceremonies, religious practices, or as a source of entertainment.

    You’re here because you want to make awesome melodies while you probably don’t know much yet about music theory. 

    This book skims over the most important topics and explains the essential basics that gives you the most profitable results. Make no mistake, you do have to know a couple of important basic topics to have a musical structure to follow. 

    Throughout this book, the readers will learn about the different methods of reading the various notes of sound. This book aims to develop an interest in the minds of the readers regarding the beauty associated with the different sounds, and also enable them to understand the wide variety of musical compositions available today. 

    By actually applying the information right away, you’ll develop that deeper understanding quickly. 

    Key contents.

    • The Fundamentals of Music
    • The Basics of Reading Music
    • Learn to play a melodious tune
    • Reading Counting and Tempo
    • Reading the Basics of Keys and Scales
    • How to Read Notes
    • Reading Dynamics and Articulation
    • How to Read Rhythm
    • Reading Chords & Chord Progression 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarl C. Jones
    Release dateNov 20, 2020
    ISBN9781664969179
    Music Theory: A Complete Guide to Understand the Fundamental of Music for Beginners

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      Those who seek to learn more about music surely cannot be treated to a computerised voice?