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Authors: Jim Aikin

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Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Getting Started

How to Study This Book

The Elements of Music

Pitch

Playing In Tune

Lines, Intervals & Chords

The 12-Note Chromatic Scale

Do-Re-Mi

Key Signatures & Accidentals

Major Keys, Scales & the Circle of Fifths

Enharmonic Equivalents

Intervals

Narrowing & Widening the Intervals

Intervals vs. Scale Steps & Chord Members

More Ways to Alter Intervals

Stacking Intervals

Inverted intervals

Sound Colors

How to Hear Intervals

Triads

The Diatonic Triads in the Major Scale

Chord Names of Triads

Inversions of Triads

Open & Closed Voicings

Doubled Notes & Dropped Notes

Chord Progressions

Measures & Beats

Assigning Chords to Measures & Beats

Choosing Chords by the Numbers

Figured Bass

The Importance of the Tonic

Phrases & Cadences

Major & Minor Keys

Other Diatonic Progressions

7th Chords & Chord Symbols

Chord Symbol Abbreviations

Inverting 7th Chords

Progressions Using 7th Chords

The Circle of Fifths

7th Chord Voicings

Altering Single Notes

Extended Chords

9th Chords

More About Chord Symbols

11th Chords

13th Chords

Voicings Using 9ths, 11ths & 13ths

Ambiguous Voicings

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