Tous les bassistes ont, à un moment ou un autre de leur progression, besoin de posséder un minimum de notions théoriques. Pour être capable de lire, de comprendre et de suivre une partition. Pour connaître le manche de sa basse et les notes qui le composent. Pour apprendre et jouer les gammes, les modes et les arpèges.?Pour en savoir plus sur les accords. Pour maîtriser toutes les notions d'ordre rythmique. Pour créer une ligne de basse. Pour improviser. Bref...?pour être musicien ! Alors, si vous êtes ignorant en la matière, cette méthode vous ouvrira de nouveaux horizons.?Et si vous êtes fâché avec le sujet, celle-ci saura assurément vous réconcilier avec les mots théorie et solfège. N'allez pas croire pour autant que cet ouvrage est rempli de règles aussi compliquées qu'indigestes. Bien au contraire. Se voulant avant tout convivial, il permet de mettre immédiatement en pratique à la basse les différents points théoriques exposés au travers d'exemples purement musicaux. De la théorie musicale appliquée... C'est au travers de huit grands chapitres que sont présentées ici toutes les notions à connaître : la notation musicale, la connaissance du manche, l'armure et la tonalité, le rythme, les intervalles, les gammes, les modes et enfin les arpèges d'accords. Un vaste programme pour qu'une fois l'étude de cet ouvrage terminée, vous soyez en mesure de dire avec fierté : ' La théorie ? C'est facile ! '. Le CD joint à la méthode constitue une aide complémentaire de tout premier ordre, puisqu'il permet d'entendre tous les exemples musicaux tels qu'ils doivent être joués, compris et assimilés. / Tout Instrument

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJEC The AS Music Literacy Workbook will develop students??? notational skills to the level necessary to succeed in the exam.This workbook explains the notation of a wide variety of instrumental techniques and includes a whole chapter devoted to score reading.Students will be able to read and understand any classical jazz pop or guitar scores they might come across during their AS studies and beyond.The workbook emphasises learning by doing. It includes numerous scorereading exercises based on jazz and classical music which encourage students to cross-reference their knowledge. The workbook builds towards aseries of exercises and model answers allowing students to check their work.This workbook is tailor made for anyone wanting to develop a grounding in music theory to AS level but is also a refreshing new resource for candidates preparing for higher grade exams in music theory BTEC National and Scottish Higher Grade Music.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECThis workbook will develop students' skills in writing about music for AS A2 and undergraduate level.Exercises appear at every stage to challenge and provide examination practice for students. These range from naming musical features and spotting grammatical errors to devising essay plans and analysing sample answers.Beginning with fundamental writing requirements this workbook moves on to address how to describe the features of a musical work as well as how to make comparisons and contrasts between specified pieces.There is advice on how to approach research what to retain and reject and how to structure anessay.Detailed analytical and dissertation-style essays are addressed as well as writing programme notes.Writing About Music Workbook promotes the development of skills which will be of use in many areas of academic life: collecting information selecting relevant material presenting arguments for and against particular propositions and expressing ideas effectively and correctly in English.'Wightman has achieved just the right tone with very clear explanations... I would feel confident giving it to pupils to read in their own time as it???s very easy for them to work from it making it a useful resource to reinforce the comments I write on their essays... I think it's probably one of the most genuinely useful books of its type.'Russell MillardHead of Academic Music Charterhouse

From basic musical concepts to harmonizing a melody Volume 2 contains more tools to get you started in this field.Enric Herrera attended classical studies of harmony counterpoint fugue composition orchestration and piano at the Conservatory of the Lyceum and the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Barcelona.

A complete pack of audio and visual resources for building musical skills and confidence from the beginning. Fully accessible to all. Ideal for classroom music making and for instrumental lesson support. Irresistibly upbeat grooves riffs and styles to wake up and shake up the musician in everyone. Includes a book and two CD-ROMs with audio recordings whiteboard displays and photocopiable printouts.

Maureen Cox presents the theory of music in a step-by-step straightforward way that is full of fun without being frivolous. This book is for anyone who wants to have fun learning the theory of music.

2nd Edition-Music Theory For Young Musicians: Grade 3 - 2014 Revised Version covers all aspects of the AB theory syllabus for Grade 3. With Music Theory For Young Musicians: Grade 3 - 2014 Revised Version assigning theory lessons for your students couldn't be easier. This 2014 revised edition contains a step-by-step guide for each concept then general exercises for the evaluation and reinforcement of these concepts and finally some sample test papers so you can be certain of success before entering your student.

Les cours de solfège à l'école ont été votre pire cauchemar ? Vous avez appris la musique enfant, mais avez tout oublié il y a bien longtemps ? Vous souhaiteriez chanter dans une chorale ou vous joindre à un groupe amateur, mais vous n'osez pas car vous ne savez pas lire la musique ? Cet ouvrage est fait pour vous. Une progression en quatre temps Expliqué de façon pragmatique et ludique, sans complexité théorique, le solfège n'est pas si compliqué : il suffit d'en connaître quelques clés. Laissez-vous guider ! ? Prenez le rythme… : valeurs des notes, mesures, tempo, nuances ? Maîtrisez les éléments mélodiques : clés, notes, intervalles et gammes ? Le tout, en parfaite harmonie : tonalités, accords et cadences ? Et enfin, gardez la forme : sonate, fugue, blues ou rock La partie des Dix, un lexique et des annexes précieuses complètent cette méthode simple et efficace. Enfin, vous retrouverez sur le CD audio entièrement adapté et réenregistré de nombreux exemples pour progresser encore plus vite. / Méthode en français / Théorie / Théorie Solfège

Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory-Ear-training is of equal importance as sight-reading and in order to learn music students must hear examples of the topics they are learning. Alfred???s Essentials of Music Theory CDs 1 and 2 contain all the samples for the Ear Training exercises and studies in the Essentials Of Music Theory Textbooks. These CDs will enhance the learning process making it more practical more fun and more effective and students will be able to hear the unique differences whilst following on the page.

Counterpoint in Jazz Arranging. Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, countermelodies, bass lines, and grooves. It will help you manage the intricacies of interactive lines, control dissonance, and improve melodic development. Carefully guided exercises let you practice exploring and controlling contrapuntal relationships. The accompanying recordings demonstrate techniques in typical jazz arrangements. Audio tracks feature a live jazz ensemble of veteran Berklee faculty members, illustrating the counterpoint examples so that you can hear them applied in a realistic musical context.

This is the third book in a series of five. Having covered basic theory in the first two volumes this book tackles more complex issues such as chord structures and compound time however there are also chapters included that act as a revision for work from earlier grades. Following the same format as previous books all information is consolidated through the completion of practical exercises and revision chapters. This book covers the topics required to sit the ABRSM Grade 3 test.