Rock & Pop Theory: the Essential Guide

Rock & Pop Theory: The Essential Guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music, this indispensable guide:

• Introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm, harmony, scales, instruments, musical forms and structure.
• Outlines the conventions governing music notation, applying these specifically to rock & pop music.
• Provides interesting facts and real music examples to contextualise music theory.
• Offers practical tips on how to identify intervals, make up melodies and rhythms, set words to music and muchmore.
• With foreword and chapter introductions by renowned educationalist Paul Harris.
• Contains quick-reference tools including an appendix, list of further repertoire examples, table of instruments, periods of music history, table of scales and modes and summary keys and time signatures.

Rock & Pop Theory: The Essential Guide is a joint publication, published by Faber Music and Edition Peters.