Edly's Music Theory for Practical People

   Prelude
	To Students, Teachers, and Other Potential Readers
	Prelude to the Third Edition
	About Reading Music… or Not
	Acknowledgements
	Finding Your Way Around
   Edly’s Quick Guide to Notation
1   The Musical Alphabets: Natural & Chromatic
	The (Natural) Musical Alphabet
	Half-Steps, Whole-Steps, and Octaves
	The Importance of Scales: A Pep Talk
	The Chromatic Scale
2   The Major Scale
	Double Sharps and Double Flats
3   Major Keys & Key Signatures
	“Newest Accidentals”
	Key Signatures
	Determining the (Major) Key From a Key Signature
	Key Signature Memory Aids
4   Diatonic Intervals
5   Chords: Triads
	Overview of Basic Chord Anatomy
	Creating Minor Intervals
	Ear-Training Preview
6   Diatonic Harmony
	Harmonizing a Major Scale
	Diatonic Triads
7   Chord Inversion
	Identifying an Unknown Chord By Inverting
	Chord-Tone Doubling
8   Chromatic Intervals
	Chromatic Alteration of Intervals
9   I, IV, V & The Twelve Bar Blues
	Twelve Bar Blues: Part 1
	Blues Phrase Structure
	Blues Chordology
10 iim, iiim, vim, & vii°
	Common Progressions That Include iim, iiim, & vim
11 Minor Scales & Keys
	The Major’s Sad Cousin: The Relative Minor…&
Your Cousin Alice
	Relative Minor Chords… & Keys
	The Natural Minor Scale
	Using the Major Scale to Define Other Scales
	The Harmonic Minor Scale
	The Melodic Minor Scale
12 The Circle of Fifths (& Fourths)
	The Circle… and Keys
	The Circle… and Chords
13 Chords: 7ths (& 6ths)
	Contemporary Chord Nomenclature Pep Talk
	Symmetrical Chords & Functions
14 Diatonic Chords & Functions
	Diatonic Seventh Chords
	Diatonic Chord Functions in Major Keys
	Diatonic Chord Functions in Minor Keys
15 Interval Inversion
16 Intervals for Ear-Training
	Categorizing Intervals By Their Sound
	Ear-Training Methods
17 Secondary Chords
	Secondary Dominants
	Other Secondary Chords
	Multiple Secondary Dominants
	Modulating with Secondary Chords
18 Transposition
	Basic Transposition… Transposing Melodies
	More Advanced Transposition… Transposing Chords
	Transposition and “Transposing Instruments”
	Transposing by Changing Clefs
19 Cadences
	Cadence Types & Definitions
20 Tritone Substitution
	The “Sub Five” chord
	The “Substitute iim7” chord
21 Natural Modes
	The Importance of Modes: Another Pep Talk
	Summary of the Modal Discovery Process
22 Pentatonic & Blues Scales
	Pentatonic Scales
	The Blues Scale
23 More Scales
	“Artificial” or “Unnatural” Modes
	“Exotic” Pentatonics
	Whole-Tone and Diminished Scales
	Scales from Mercury
24 Chords: 9ths, 11ths, & 13ths
	Ninth Chords
	Diatonic Ninth Chords
	Eleventh Chords
	Thirteenth Chords
25 Chords: Summary & Exceptions
26 Diatonic Modal Chords
	Modal Chord Functions
27 Blues Structure Part 2
28 Some Other Common Song Forms
	Song Anatomy 101
	Some Common Song Forms
29 Improvisation Ideas
	Improvising By Paraphrasing the Melody
	Improvising From Scratch
	Scale/Mode Choices in Improvisation
30 By Ear
  Prelude To The Remaining Chapters
31 Choosing Extensions & Alterations
	Extensions and Alterations By Chord Type
	Building Upon Sparse Two-Five-One Voicings
32 Ingredients of Voicings
	Chord Range
	Chord-Tone Spacing
	Doubling
	Omission
33 Categories of Voicings
	Close Voicings
	Open Voicings
	Open & Close Voicings Versus Inversions
	Drop Voicings
	Clusters
	Voicings-in-Fourths
	Chord-Over-Bass-Note (or “Slash”) Voicings
	Rootless Voicings
	Upper-Structure Voicings
	Chord-Tone Placement and Low-End Limits
	Voicings: Quick Summary
34 Voice Leading
	Voice Leading in Multiple Secondary Dominants
	Voice Leading Exceptions
	Parallel Fifths & Octaves
35 Harmonizing a Melody
36 Analyzing Chord Progressions
37 Reharmonization
  Coda
  Answers
  Glossarindex