The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences: Includes All the Major, Minor (Natural, Harmonic, Melodic) & Chromatic Scales -- Plus Additional Instructions on Music Fundamentals

I have an AS in music and played fir years, based mostly on jazz theory, as they called theory in my fabulous college 50 years aho. If you're a site reader, this book's perfect. I was hoping it would be like basic books that had illustrations and notes instead of music notation. So I guess I can't practice with it until I can read after 35 years. But it looks fabulous. Great info.

I was impressed at the basic music theory included. This is a good book for teens or adults who want to learn the basics of reading music, basic piano theory, and piano fundamentals. Few teachers of any instrument seem to teach scales and basic theory these days. This book will help beginners and those who have music knowledge but want to learn more or refresh their memories.

Most of what is in this book I have learned at one time or another before, but this is nicely done and some good practice for other ways to play scales, chords, arpeggios and cadences.

book of scales is a great book.

I think this is probably a really good book for what it is. It explains scales, chords and arpeggios. I was just looking for something that less of a piano playing book and more of a writing music book for writing midi parts.It has some very useful information inside the cover on the circle of fifths and how to tell what key you are in. The problem is, I already have books that do this. There are good exercises for playing very basic arpeggios. And there are fundamentals of scales and chords. But the arpeggios are very basic - just going up and down the scale, nothing interesting if you are looking for ideas.

I took piano lessons as a young child. I’m starting to play again as an adult and this book is a must-read on the basics of cords to help understand music. I wish I would have had all this music knowledge years ago when I first learned to play. I highly recommend this book! Well written and easy to understand.

I use this at every practice session. Great delivery

I use my Fire tablet as a music reader. This book is an excellent resource and looks great on the screen.

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The media could not be loaded. *Self learners and intimidated beginners, This book is for you! I can't bear to take away a star for the damaged spine, that is how wonderful this book is. - I'm your average child piano lessons quitter, now regretfully nostalgic and determined adult learner💪🏽. I didn't absorb enough theory back then, to actually know the piano. I knew just enough to memorize and play average pop sheet music. Easier standard classicals etc. Unless I use a chord dictionary, I know zero chords except Cmajor, zero scales except Cmajor, nothing about key signatures, let's not even talk about rest counts, note beats, etc. Basically any little foundation I had, has been long forgotten, BUT, it's never too late to learn as long as you're healthy enough and breathing, and this is a phenomenal book to start with. PROS:1. It's big with a remarkably visually appealing layout to making studying and memorization easier and more welcoming. The voice/tone of the book is warm and not overly formal or stiff like others I've tried.2. Placed on the inside of the cover page, where it can be easily referenced, is a large sized, very detailed explanation of the Circle of 5ths. I have been trying to understand it's concepts for years with no success, but I took one quick glance over this one, and boom! I finally understood it. This is HUGE for me. 💃🏽3. Explanation paragraphs are greatly detailed precise and super easy to understand, as you can see in the pictures4. The diagrams are big and fantastic. With arrows pointing things out to ensure clarity.5. Things aren't squished together, which, I've found, often make studying musical concepts or reading music itself seem much much harder, and burdensome, than it really is.CONS: the only con may be one of the things that makes this book great - the "oversizeness" of it all. It is a "music book" size book. For adult studiers, this is not your pocket sized travel study companion. This one will tag along in your large(er) tote or a knapsack or good sized man bag.+ I finally found a book I'll actually enjoy studying, that will keep my struggles and confusions to a minimum. I believe you'll feel the same. Worth every single penny. I will be using this book until it's ragged. Buy it and enjoy your piano learning journey.

Packed with useful info about scales

Every piano enthusiast must have this book for practicing scales, chords and apreggios. Very illustrative.

Este libro contiene todos las escalas, acordes y arpegios que cualquier músico, incluso amateur, debe conocer. No solo los estudiantes de piano, sino es válido para las personas que disfruten aprendiendo cualquier instrumento para su propio disfrute. Los fundamentos del piano son esenciales y comunes para todos los aprendices y aficionados a la música.