http://www.amazon.com/Play-Piano-Despit ... 0385142633
Or you can name the book "understanding music theory despite years of lessons", it's still the same thing.
Why have I posted it? Because I keep seeing people whom are concerned about these childishly simple things again and again. This book will give you a proper perspective about them. When you try to play an instrument or try to compose something it won't be that simple though. This fact should indicate you that music is actually learnt by doing it, not by just reading about it. If you cannot count internals or name them, that's because the way they are organized is a bit strange for historical (read: accidental) reasons. They are still simple intervals (i.e. perceptual distances between tones). If you still did not understand them, perhaps you are looking for an answer that doesn't exist or perhaps you are thinking in a way that is too complex with respect to the actual simplicity of the subject. Musicians name notes {A B C D E F G} (a total of 7 notes), if they were mathematicians they would name them {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11} (a total of 12 notes). Distances between A...G are not equal as they should be. That's the source of the confusion. This simple fact makes something as simple as an interval notoriously difficult to understand for some people. Change the way you count, and instantly they will start to look simple.
intervals :((
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- KVRian
- 588 posts since 3 Oct, 2011
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=music+intervals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8 ... lf.C3.A8ge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_( ... _intervals
That's everything you should need to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8 ... lf.C3.A8ge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_( ... _intervals
That's everything you should need to know.
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