Do you want to know how music works? Do you want to explore all the different elements that create the music we all love? Would you like to build a rock-solid foundation for more advanced musical studies?

Then this book is for you!

With hundreds of exercises and examples, listening challenges, 1 final test and online access to audio files, you'll learn:

• The essentials of music theory
• The complete system behind musical scales
• How key signatures work (and why they matter)
• How to build an endless variety of chords and where to use them
• The fundamentals of musical analysis
• How tonal music works (and why this is important)
• And all other essential music theory details!

Stop searching the web endlessly in hopes of finding the right information and start learning from this step-by-step system instead. Hundreds of students have successfully gone through the School of Composition's practical methods to learn music theory. Now it's your turn!