Music Theory volunteers needed

[Johnny Robbo]

Hi Chaps,

I'm in the process of writing a book, well it's actually more of an exercise in collating all of my music theory lessons into one volume. The working title I've got for it is "A Guitarist's Guide To Music Theory". It's up to around 30,000 words so far and comes with (at the moment) over 50 mp3 demonstrations & backing tracks to illustrate the examples I use. So far, it covers:

The Derivation of The 12-note Scale we base all our music on

The Major Scale and it's Modes

The Pentatonic Scale & it's uses

Chords - how to understand the language of chords: basically how to look at the name of a chord & know where to put your fingers on the guitar.

Harmony - how to create everything from Thin Lizzy style guitar parts to Beach Boys style vocals

The Blues

How Chord Progressions work - what makes a good chord sequence, basically

And the current chapter I'm working on: How melodies work.

The two chapters I've got left to do after this one are:

Reading music notation, and

"Odd/Unusual" scales found in jazz & elsewhere.

It's about two-thirds finished at the moment and if anyone is curious about getting into a bit of theory based learning, I'd be delighted to let you see it in return for some feedback. PM me if you're interested & I'll send you the download link for the PDF and mp3s.

Cheers,

John.

[Oldrottenhead]

best of luck Johnny.

Bert Weedon's Play in a Day was too complicated for me, so i won't volunteer. 

[thetworegs]

I've sent you an email John cheers

[Hook]

That sounds immensely cool my brother, but it also sounds like practice. I'm not huge on practice which is why I'm kind of what I think of as a half-assed musician but I sure wouldn't mind looking through your stuff. Can guarantee much feedback other than I don't practice. It's rock in them that you put this together and that you almost have it done.
Rock on!

[Johnny Robbo]

Thanks for the interest, chaps

Here's the dropbox link for the PDF & mp3s:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ljegq475ys4d5b6/AAAFdKA0xYkuc9bViPqoeYOda?dl=0

[Pete C]

Hi John

Just a quick update - I'm working my way through the download - I'll get back to you with some feedback when I've finished and got my thoughts together.

Pete

[Johnny Robbo]

Thanks Pete. Your time is much appreciated

[The Gobi Desert Canoe Club]

Hi John, firstly, thank you for all your fabulous music and encouragement and secondly, I have to say that I'm a fly by the seat of my pants guitarist and would be of little use in an experiment such as this. Also, we are waiting to be grandparents for the first time (any day now) and as a consequence I have only just enough time to play a little bit which to me is an absolute necessity, I guess you're the same.
Good luck with your projects, I'm sure you will get some useful feedback from some of the guys on site.  Willie

[bruno]

Hey Johnny - looks interesting. Have only skimmed it briefly, it appears to be a nice easy read, to present in the 'language' that guitarists will understand. It depends on time, but will take a deeper look - quite happy to provide comment/feedback as I go. How'd would you like comments - can add to this thread as and when, or can PM you with comments as I go???
B

[Johnny Robbo]

Hi John, firstly, thank you for all your fabulous music and encouragement and secondly, I have to say that I'm a fly by the seat of my pants guitarist and would be of little use in an experiment such as this. Also, we are waiting to be grandparents for the first time (any day now) and as a consequence I have only just enough time to play a little bit which to me is an absolute necessity, I guess you're the same.
Good luck with your projects, I'm sure you will get some useful feedback from some of the guys on site.  Willie

Thanks Willie. Congratulations on the impending new arrival

Hey Johnny - looks interesting. Have only skimmed it briefly, it appears to be a nice easy read, to present in the 'language' that guitarists will understand. It depends on time, but will take a deeper look - quite happy to provide comment/feedback as I go. How'd would you like comments - can add to this thread as and when, or can PM you with comments as I go???
B

Thanks Bruno! Probably best if you just PM me, mate. Glad you like the look of it so far... my intention is to make the topic as accessible as possible, so it's gratifying to know I appear to be hitting the mark