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Music Basics

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Music Basics

DaveConservatoire

Free Online Music School

Circle of Fifths

1 2 3 4 5

EarMaster

Basic Music Theory

G Major Theory

Music Fundamentals

Music Basics

MusicTheory.net

Lessons Exercises

8notes

Music Theory

Music Theory Minute

Videos

Teoria Writing a Melody

Tonal Theory Yale - Listening to Music

Guitar Basics

Bing

Learn Guitar Videos

All-Guitar-Chords

Index

Chord Book

Guitar Chords

Music Awareness

Online Tutorial

Jazz Guitar

Free Lessons

Academic

AP - Music Theory Syllabi & Textbooks

Music Theory Courses

Coursera EdX

Berklee College of Music

BerkleeShares

Khan Academy

Masterpieces Explained

Leonard Bernstein

6 Lectures

Useful Links

Music Theory Bookshelf

How to Listen to Great Music	Robert Greenberg
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music History	Michael Miller
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music	Jan Swafford
The Lives of the Great Composers	Harold C. Schonberg
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection	Ted Libbey
The NPR Classical Music Companion	Miles Hoffman
The Essential Canon of Classical Music	David Dubal
Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers	Phil G. Goulding
The Harvard Dictionary of Music	Don Michael Randel
The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music	Stanley Sadie
A History of Western Music	Donald J. Grout
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven	Charles Rosen
The Romantic Generation	Charles Rosen
Basic Music Theory	Jonathan Harnum
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory	Michael Miller
Barron's AP Music Theory	Nancy Scoggin
The Songwriter's Workshop	Jimmy Kachulis
Melody in Songwriting	Jack Perricone
Fretboard Theory	Desi Serna
The Chord Wheel	Jim Fleser

Music Theory Videos

The Pillars of Music Theory

Practical Usage of Music Theory

The Circle of Fifths

Note Values

The Major Scale

Minor Scale

Time Signatures

How Basic Chords Work

How to Read Music

Visualize Rhythm

Writing a Melody

How to Write Music

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