Monday, June 11, 2012

Music theory for musicians

I decided not to make a powerpoint about music theory for musicians because it's such a widely covered topic already. Instead, I found some easy to use online resources that probably explain things better than I could. Most of these resources cover the systems that western music traditionally uses to write and play music (musical staves, types of notes, chords, harmony, etc).

http://www.musictheory.net/lessons
This site has excellent coverage of basic through intermediate/lower advanced topics of music theory. It lets you go through the lessons at your own pace and has exercises to test your knowledge too. However, if you're looking for a very quick summary, it may not be the best.

Here's a much more in-depth document that explains how notes relate to each other and how scales are constructed:
http://www.gospelmusic.org.uk/resources/cowpielessons.pdf

A very simply written summary of the basics:
http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

The Wikipedia page on music theory. Not very good as a learning tool, but not bad as a reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_theory


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