Skip to Content
Music Theory, 3E
book

Music Theory, 3E

by Michael Miller
July 2016
Beginner
368 pages
8h 32m
English
Alpha
Content preview from Music Theory, 3E

CHAPTER12

Transcribing What You Hear

In This Chapter

  • Understanding why ear training is important
  • Discovering how to actively listen
  • Developing your tonal memory
  • Learning how to transcribe songs from recordings

In an ideal world, everything you need is served up to you on a silver platter. As a musician, that means you’ll always get perfectly noted pieces of sheet music from which to read, with all the chords and melodies and rhythms clearly and correctly written out.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world: you won’t always get sheet music for the songs you have to play; sometimes you’ll be expected to “play by ear” and figure out the ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Guitar Theory

Guitar Theory

David Hodge
Guitar All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Guitar All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Hal Leonard Corporation, Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell, Desi Serna
Storytelling with You

Storytelling with You

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781465454102