Music Theory
Table of Contents
The following lists may come from many authors all over the entire Internet world, I list their original addresses here:
- Reddit Music Thery self-study book list
- 43 Music Theory Concepts That EVERY Modern Composer Should Master {The Music Theory Map}
1 A learning map you can refer to
- Musical Alphabet
- Musical Staff
- Knowing the Fretboard
- Scale Shapes and the Major Scale
- Rhythm Basics
- Triplets, Swing, and Advanced Tuplets
- Meter and Time Signature
- Audiation and Melody
- Key Signatures and Enharmonics
- Scale Degrees
- Triads
- Movable Chords
- Diatonic Major Chords + Roman Numerals
- Writing Chord Progressions in Major
- Solo-ing with the Pentatonic Major Scale
- Suspended Chords
- The Minor Scale + Diatonic Chords
- Writing progressions in Minor
- Soloing with the Pentatonic Minor Scale
- Ear Training Intervals and Chords
- Power Chords
- Relative Scales and Tonul Center
- Combining Pentatonic Shapes
- Arpeggios and Chord Tone Soloing
- Inversions and Slash Chords
- Popular 7th Chords
- Diatonic 7th Chords
- Blues
- Secondary Dominant Chords
- Diminished Chords
- Augmented Chords.
- Harmonic Minor
- Writing Melodies
- Passing Tones and Chromaticism
- Introducing Modes
- Transpositions and Modulations
- Modal Interchange
- Song Sections
- Song Structures
- Writing Drum Parts
- Writing Bass Lines
- Creating a Full Song
- Advanced Theory Concepts: Timbre, Harmony, Tunings, and World Music
2 General
- The Complete Idiot's Guide To Music Theory
- The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening
3 Harmony
3.1 Classical Period Harmony
- Harmony and Voice Leading - Carl Schachter
- Tonal Harmony - Stefan Kostka This book is quite concise and friendly:)
- Theory of Harmony - Arnold Schoenberg
- Structural Functions of Harmony - Arnold Schoenberg
- Practical Manual of Harmony - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
- Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom - William Caplin
- Harmony and Melody by Elise Siegmeister
3.2 Modern 20th Century Harmony
- Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice
4 Jazz
- The Jazz Harmony Book
- Bert Ligon - JAZZ THEORY RESOURCES, VOL. 1 & TWO (Really complete)
- Mark Levine - The Jazz Theory Book (Really good but not as complete as my first choice) (University Standard)
- Bert Ligon - Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony (new way to think…)
- Bert Ligon - COMPREHENSIVE TECHNIQUE for JAZZ MUSICIANS (Really good for practice)
5 Composition
- Alan Belkin - Musical composition
- Analyzing Classical form (duplication, but it is recommended for classical composition)