Edly's Music Theory for Practical People

• Notation Examples

• Diagrams, Charts, and Other Examples

• Prelude
• To Students, Teachers, and Other Potential Readers
• About Reading Music or Not
• Abbreviations

• Edly's Quick Guide to Notation

• Chapter 1: The Musical Alphabets- Natural and Chromatic
• The (Natural) Musical Alphabet
• Half-Steps, Whole-Steps, and Octaves
• The Importance of Scales: A Pep Talk
• The Chromatic Scale

• Chapter 2: The Major Scale
• Double Sharps and Double Flats

• Chapter 3: Major Keys and Key Signatures
• Key Signatures
• Determining the Key from a Key Signature
• Key Signature Memory Aids

• Chapter 4: Diatonic Intervals

• Chapter 5: Chords: Triads
• Overview of Basic Chord Anatomy
• Creating Minor Intervals
• Ear-Training Preview

• Chapter 6: Diatonic Harmony
• Harmonizing a Major Scale
• Diatonic Triads

• Chapter 7: Chord Inversion
• Determining the Root and Chord Type of an Unknown Chord
• Chord-Tone Doubling

• Chapter 8: Chromatic Intervals
• Chromatic Alteration of Intervals
• Less Common Enharmonic Spellings of Intervals

• Chapter 9: I, IV, V and the Twelve Bar Blues
• Twelve Bar Blues: Part I
• Blues Phrase Structure
• Blues Chordology

• Chapter 10: iim, iiim, vim, and vii* Chords…
• Intro to Chord Substitution
• Common Diatonic Progressions Which Include iim, iiim, and vim

• Chapter 11: Minor Scales and Keys
• The Major's Sad Cousin: the Relative Minor, Your Cousin Alice… and the Natural Minor Scale
• Using the Major Scale to Define Other Scales
• The Harmonic Minor Scale
• The Melodic Minor Scale

• Chapter 12: The Circle of Fifths (and Fourths)

• Chapter 13: Chords: 7ths (& 6ths)
• Symmetrical Chords and Functions

• Chapter 14: Diatonic Chords and Functions
• Diatonic Seventh Chords
• Diatonic Chord Functions in Major Keys
• Diatonic Chord Functions in Minor Keys

• Chapter 15: Interval Inversion

• Chapter 16: Intervals for Ear–Training
• General Sound of Various Intervals
• Ear–Training Methods

• Chapter 17: Secondary Dominants and Other Secondary Chords
• Secondary Dominants
• Other Secondary Chords
• Multiple Secondary Dominants
• Modulating with Secondary Chords

• Chapter 18: Transposition
• Transposition and "Transposing Instruments"
• Transposing by Changing Clefs

• Chapter 19: Cadences
• Cadence Types & Definitions

• Chapter 20: Tritone Substitution
• The "Substitute iim7" chord

• Chapter 21: Natural Modes
• The Importance of Modes: Another Pep Talk
• Summary of the Modal Discovery Process

• Chapter 22: Pentatonic and Blues Scales
• Pentatonic Scales
• The Blues Scale

• Chapter 23: More Scales
• "Artificial" or "Unnatural" Modes
• "Exotic" Pentatonics
• Whole-Tone and Diminished Scales
• Modes from Mercury

• Chapter 24: Chords: 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths
• Ninth Chords
• Diatonic Ninth Chords
• Eleventh Chords
• Thirteenth Chords

• Chapter 25: Chords: Summary and Exceptions

• Chapter 26: Diatonic Modal Chords
• Modal Chord Functions

• Chapter 27: Blues Structure Part II

• Chapter 28: Some Other Common Song Forms
• Song Anatomy 101

• Chapter 29: Improvisation Ideas
• Scale/Mode Choices in Improvisation

• Chapter 30: By Ear

• Coda

• Answers

• Glossary and Index

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