The Complete Music Course

Description

Most music books teach you one thing. Theory, or your instrument, or how to record. Then you’re on your own trying to figure out how any of it connects.

This is the whole thing in one book.

Ten sections, one hundred and twenty modules: music theory, songwriting and craft, recording and production, live sound and performance, and the culture and history underneath all of it — plus full twelve-module foundations for drums, bass, piano, guitar, and voice. Every module runs the same shape. A three-level Theory track, a three-level Practice track, and a figure that shows you the idea instead of describing it.

I’ve spent the last five years teaching this to hundreds of students. Working artists, adults starting over, kids who’d never held an instrument. This is what I actually teach, in the order I actually teach it, written the way I’d say it to you in the room.

You don’t need to read music to start. You don’t need gear. You need to be willing to practice something small until it’s boring, and then build on it.

By the end you can read any chord chart and name what every number is doing. You can hear why the next chord wants to be the next chord. You can track and mix a song, run sound for a live set, and play one instrument well enough to be genuinely useful in a band.

156 figures and plates. 512 defined terms. 193 citations. Full glossary and reading list at the back.

Music is the heart language. Learn the craft, then go make whatever you want.