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# Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians (Book & 2 CDs)

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Review: I like anything published by Alfred - This title taught me all of the basics I'd forgotten. I like anything published by Alfred, good company. If you're sincere about playing the piano or guitar or guitars :-), no matter if you're amateur/novice or professional, this bit of software could be for you and enable you to eventually help you to play like a pro, the easier way! EZ KEYS by: Toontrack EZ Keys should help revolutionize the music business. Why? If you can tap out the melody of a song, you can essentially write beautiful music. Indeed, it's just a matter of time until the major DAW's add this important feature to their software. Although EZ seamlessly integrates and works well within all of the major programs and hardware. Don't just take my word for it, uh Forrest:-) Google it and see what you find. I can tell you now, it's gonna be good! EZ Keys as like having a gifted college music professor sitting beside you everyday as you write and compose your tunes daily, while slowly but surely learning how to write and play. This college music professor is with you everyday while you play, correcting you and helping you to superstardom. or, maybe just stardom. Everyone doesn't want to be a superstar. The beauty of it all is that you don't have to go online to do all this. Learning this way bends the learning curve to shorten the time it takes to become professionally proficient at the keyboard. I love this type of on the job training. Hours go by so quickly........... Lot's of times I start writing and toying around with this program, look up at the clock and two hours have gone by. What seemed like thirty minutes was actually two hours. I love this program. All you have to do is write or play whatever you can mainly create the melody with your right hand, then compile it, then EZ automatically creates the left hand chords for you. If you want to you can also change those first few notes you've chicken pecked out (that's how I do it everyday) and alter them to triad 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths,... on up to 13ths..... and more. Realistically, rarely do you have to go over 7ths. After that Keys pops up a circle of 4ths and 5ths and let's to toy around with it to see and hear what the neighboring chords look and sound like, then you write some more then compile again, then repeat, then after doing this a dozen or so times, you've got a complete song that sounds way above your current level of play. These compositions actually makes us sound like we really can play the piano:-) And the best thing, it really does sounds good! It doesn't sound amateurish or hokey like those songs we played out of the music books with the finger numbers over and under the notes, telling us which fingers to use when playing a song. Trust me! It don't get no easier kid:-) You can play a shoestring, if you're sincere. ---John Coltrane---
Review: Excellent Concise Introduction to Basic Music - Based upon the "most popular" reviews, I bought this book thinking it would be useful for advanced learning. Many reviewers have commented on the amount of effort they had to put into it even with years of musical experience. This is a beginning music book suitable for anyone playing any instrument. It is "difficult" because it is concise. I've got several books that cover the same concepts in this book - for examples modes. This book takes only a couple of pages to present modes. You have to do more work obviously to understand the concept more generally because of the concision. This also shows up in the relatively few examples provided to illustrate a concept. Students like a lot of good examples and the authors make a trade off here, seeking brevity. Beginners will find this challenging as many reviews disclose. This book is more about basic terms and definitions and not about music theory or composition or more advanced musical learning. The version I got is soft bound and apparently combines three former "books" into one book of 146 pages. It also includes 2 CDs. Frankly, I found the "most popular" reviews misleading and do not find this book useful since I have several books that cover the same information. The wisdom of the crowd is not nearly as wise as the Internets would have you believe. Those reviews told me more about the reviewers than the book. Summary: Excellent concise introduction to basic music terms, definitions, and concepts. It is useful to anyone interested in learning the basics regardless of instrument.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #26,353 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Music Encyclopedias #12 in Music Reference (Books) #36 in Music Theory (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,243) |
| Dimensions  | 9.02 x 0.39 x 11.85 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 0739036351 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0739036358 |
| Item Weight  | 1 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 152 pages |
| Publication date  | August 1, 2004 |
| Publisher  | Alfred Music |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I like anything published by Alfred
*by C***K on August 24, 2017*

This title taught me all of the basics I'd forgotten. I like anything published by Alfred, good company. If you're sincere about playing the piano or guitar or guitars :-), no matter if you're amateur/novice or professional, this bit of software could be for you and enable you to eventually help you to play like a pro, the easier way! EZ KEYS by: Toontrack EZ Keys should help revolutionize the music business. Why? If you can tap out the melody of a song, you can essentially write beautiful music. Indeed, it's just a matter of time until the major DAW's add this important feature to their software. Although EZ seamlessly integrates and works well within all of the major programs and hardware. Don't just take my word for it, uh Forrest:-) Google it and see what you find. I can tell you now, it's gonna be good! EZ Keys as like having a gifted college music professor sitting beside you everyday as you write and compose your tunes daily, while slowly but surely learning how to write and play. This college music professor is with you everyday while you play, correcting you and helping you to superstardom. or, maybe just stardom. Everyone doesn't want to be a superstar. The beauty of it all is that you don't have to go online to do all this. Learning this way bends the learning curve to shorten the time it takes to become professionally proficient at the keyboard. I love this type of on the job training. Hours go by so quickly........... Lot's of times I start writing and toying around with this program, look up at the clock and two hours have gone by. What seemed like thirty minutes was actually two hours. I love this program. All you have to do is write or play whatever you can mainly create the melody with your right hand, then compile it, then EZ automatically creates the left hand chords for you. If you want to you can also change those first few notes you've chicken pecked out (that's how I do it everyday) and alter them to triad 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths,... on up to 13ths..... and more. Realistically, rarely do you have to go over 7ths. After that Keys pops up a circle of 4ths and 5ths and let's to toy around with it to see and hear what the neighboring chords look and sound like, then you write some more then compile again, then repeat, then after doing this a dozen or so times, you've got a complete song that sounds way above your current level of play. These compositions actually makes us sound like we really can play the piano:-) And the best thing, it really does sounds good! It doesn't sound amateurish or hokey like those songs we played out of the music books with the finger numbers over and under the notes, telling us which fingers to use when playing a song. Trust me! It don't get no easier kid:-) You can play a shoestring, if you're sincere. ---John Coltrane---

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Concise Introduction to Basic Music
*by J***R on October 17, 2020*

Based upon the "most popular" reviews, I bought this book thinking it would be useful for advanced learning. Many reviewers have commented on the amount of effort they had to put into it even with years of musical experience. This is a beginning music book suitable for anyone playing any instrument. It is "difficult" because it is concise. I've got several books that cover the same concepts in this book - for examples modes. This book takes only a couple of pages to present modes. You have to do more work obviously to understand the concept more generally because of the concision. This also shows up in the relatively few examples provided to illustrate a concept. Students like a lot of good examples and the authors make a trade off here, seeking brevity. Beginners will find this challenging as many reviews disclose. This book is more about basic terms and definitions and not about music theory or composition or more advanced musical learning. The version I got is soft bound and apparently combines three former "books" into one book of 146 pages. It also includes 2 CDs. Frankly, I found the "most popular" reviews misleading and do not find this book useful since I have several books that cover the same information. The wisdom of the crowd is not nearly as wise as the Internets would have you believe. Those reviews told me more about the reviewers than the book. Summary: Excellent concise introduction to basic music terms, definitions, and concepts. It is useful to anyone interested in learning the basics regardless of instrument.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Supplemental Tool
*by K***L on May 26, 2025*

I’ve played classical guitar for over 15 years, and this is the first time the theory has really started to click. Got a great deal on a used like new copy. Overall an excellent purchase, and I only wish I’d ordered it sooner.

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