Take note: You can enjoy music analysis.
This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the basics of reading and composing music to share with others.
In this revised edition, renowned music author Michael Miller will help you learn:

• The basics of tones, including pitches, clefs, and major and minor keys
• The building blocks of rhythm, including basic notation, time signatures, and tempo
• How to create tunes, starting with melodies, chords, chord progressions, and phrases and forms

• Composing and arranging your own music, including coverage of musical genres and forms, arranging for voices and instruments, working with scores, and performing your music

• The basics of accompaniment, including transcribing, accompanying melodies, and transposing to other keys

Michael Miller has authored more than 200 nonfiction books, including a number of best-selling music books for Alpha: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Drums, Second Edition, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Composition, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music History, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Conducting Music, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Solos and Improvisation, and Idiot’s Guides: Singing, Second Edition (with co-author Phyllis Fulford). Michael began arranging and composing vocal and instrumental music for various groups at age 14. He later attended the Indiana University School of Music, where he was accepted into the Jazz Studies program. Visit www.millerwriter.com to learn more.