The Circle of Fifths

ebook Visual Tools for Musicians, #1 · Visual Tools for Musicians

By Philip Jackson

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Struggling to connect majors with relative minors? Learn music's most powerful tool for making rapid progress linking theory to practice.

Musical theories falling on deaf ears? Worrying how to calculate tritone intervals? Do you get confused when defining a chord? Technical music instructor and bestselling author Philip Jackson has spent the last two decades helping musicians master tricky concepts. Now he's here to share his elegantly simple solution that taps into your most effective visualizations to keep you on track.

The Circle of Fifths is a comprehensive and refreshingly different method for storing the oft-thought complex relationships between notes, keys, and scales in an easy-to-remember system. With clear explanations of every aspect of music theory, supported by memorable imagery, Jackson's logical strategy demystifies the science behind the sounds. And by recalling critical correlations in an exceptionally straightforward manner, you'll soon be composing and playing with delightful anticipation.

In The Circle of Fifths, you will discover:

  • A thorough approach to the crucial concepts behind musicality in a process that can easily be accessed, even while improvising
  • Step-by-step methods to enhance harmonic content and deepen your results
  • Techniques for rapidly recalling complicated progressions in any key to help you relax
  • Detailed explorations of major scale degrees, sharps and flats, and intervals to round out your understanding
  • Transposition skills, applying chords to scalar relatives, Bartok substitutions, and much, much more!
  • The Circle of Fifths is an across-the-board resource for any musician battling theoretical applications, and is the first book in the Visual Tools for Musicians series. If you like meticulous information, expert tips, and confidence-building exercises, then you'll love Philip Jackson's must-have manual.

    Buy The Circle of Fifths for a pitch-perfect approach today!

    The Circle of Fifths