Theory for Today’s Musician, Third Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today’s music student. It uses classical, folk, popular, and jazz repertoires with clear explanations that link music theory to musical applications. The authors help prepare students by not only exploring how music theory works in art music, but how it functions within modern music, and why this knowledge will help them become better composers, music teachers, performers, and recording engineers.

This broadly comprehensive text merges traditional topics such as part writing and harmony (diatonic, chromatic, neo-tonal and atonal), with less traditional topics such as counterpoint and musical process, and includes the non-traditional topics of popular music songwriting, jazz harmony and the blues. The accompanying companion website provides interactive exercises that allow students to practice foundational theory skills. Written by experienced authors, both active classroom teachers for many years, Theory for Today’s Musician is the complete and ideal theory text to enable today’s student to accomplish their musical goals tomorrow.

Updated and corrected throughout, the Third Edition includes:

• Expanded coverage of atonality and serialism, now separated into two chapters.
• Broadened treatment of cadences, including examples from popular music.
• Substantially rewritten chapter on songwriting.
• Interactive features of the text simplified to two types, "Concept Checks" and "Review and Reinforcement," for greater ease of use.
• New and updated musical examples added throughout.
• Charts, illustrations, and musical examples revised for increased clarity.
• Audio of musical examples now provided through the companion website.

The accompanying Workbook offers exercises and assignments to accompany each chapter in the book. A companion website houses online tutorials with drills of basic concepts, as well as audio.

Rhythm Reading: Elementary through Advanced Training reduces the rhythms of Western music to a series of short, frequently encountered patterns.

Master Essential Notation on Drums and Build Rhythm Reading Skills for a Lifetime 

• Discover how to read and play every essential notation on drums
• Understand how reading drum music works
• Build play and internalize rhythms on drums
• Understand complex time and accurate rhythm divisions
• Instantly apply and master terminology to make music

Rhythm and Notation for Drummers

• Are you struggling to learn drum music?
• Would you like an effective way to memorize, play and combine techniques and rudiments to make music on the drums?
• Do you want to confidently read rhythm on drums the right way? Do you want to build perfect drum practice habits that stay with you for a lifetime?

 

The Rhythm and Notation for Drummers teaches you to correctly play, understand and combine the essential techniques for drummers to become a better musician, quickly and easily. 

Here’s What You Get:

• A complete course, building from the first essential drum rhythms and symbols to help you memorize, understand and apply drum notation musically.
• Detailed analysis of over 20 everyday drum techniques and their application to the drum kit
• Understanding of how to read rhythms on drums the right way, and the theory of how they are constructed
• Math to Music: Essential rhythms and techniques are broken down so you understand them before you play them
• Learn how to write down and document complex drum pieces - an invaluable skill!

 

Bonus One: Test Yourself: Detailed revision sections at the end of each chapter

Bonus Two: Get the Audio! Don’t just understand music! — Hear every example played live and professionally recorded

 

Are you Missing Part of the Puzzle?

 

Most beginner drum students know a few rhythms and symbols but few actually realize it is quick and easy to expand into effortless competent understanding of how to read drum music and play all the essential techniques.

Rhythm and Notation for Drummers is not just a cold list of drum theory, it’s a complete guide for beginners that teaches you how to read and write notation for a lifetime of drumming success.

From the most basic note divisions, right through to an understanding of complex time, you will be guided in small friendly steps.

Throughout, there is an emphasis on using the correct counting, combining techniques smoothly, building great technique and developing creativity.

Test Yourself!  At the end of each chapter, the newly introduced rhythms and techniques are combined into real-life challenging musical progressions. 

How to Write Drum Music! — Also included is a detailed ‘How to Write Your Own Drum Music’ so you can quickly and easily write and remember your own drum parts…

 

Hear it!

Learning rhythms from paper is one thing, but once you hear how to apply them, they become music. Rhythm and Notation for Drummers contains many supporting audio examples to help you get inside the music, and quickly apply every new rhythm and technique in a musical situation.

 

Understand, Recognize, Hear and Play any Rhythm, Plus master the techniques you will see written in every piece of music.

 

This book is Free on Kindle Unlimited so Buy it Now and make a big improvement in your musicianship