Roy Maxwell - Music Theory : The Complete Guide From Beginner to Intermediate, Learn, Practice and Compose Music for Piano, Guitar or Any Other Musical Instrument (Music Theory for Beginners Book 3)

Before we start anything, I have to let you know that this book is not gonna be just another music theory text. There are tonnes of those and if what you want is just another one, then you have the wrong book. This book is intended to be more than just a music theory text that tells you about sharps, flats, intervals, scales, and stuff. This book is designed to be a musician s companion, the rea-son you should keep creating music, a guide, a friend, a reference, a helper, and a motivation for musicians of all levels and for everyone who loves music and life, because music itself is life. Before we go a step further, let me tell you a short but really cool story:

At the very young age of five, he wrote an advanced concerto for the harpsichord. Before he turned ten, he had successfully published several violin sonatas and was already playing the best of Handel and J. S Bach from memory. Immediately after his twelfth birthday he successfully composed and conducted his first opera. He was lat-er awarded an honorary appointment as concertmaster by the re-nowned Salzburg Symphony Orchestra, and within just a few years, he was praised as the pride of Salzburg. When he finally died at the young age of thirty-five he had written, all by himself, forty-eight symphonies; forty-seven duets, arias, and quartets with complete orchestral accompaniment; and more than twelve operas. He is cred-ited with some six-hundred original compositions in total. Even at all this, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived most of his life in abject poverty and died in total obscurity. Only a very few friends made it to the church for his funeral service, but a fierce storm stopped them from going to the graveside for his burial. Because of this, the loca-tion of Mozart's grave became virtually impossible to identify. There is no tombstone or shrine to mark his resting place.

But today, what is Mozart remembered for? What is Mozart's legacy? I am not asking about the life he lived but rather, the music he gave the whole world. Actually, this is some very important music theory that you will never be taught in college or on YouTube. It's not about the life you live, how much you get paid or how much you take from the world; its 98.9% about how much you give to the world. In this case, the music you leave behind long after you are gone.

I always love this quote by the famous rapper Jay Z:

"Fear not when, fear not why,

Fear not much while we're alive,

Life is for living, not living uptight,

Till you're somewhere up in the sky,

Fear not to die, I'll be alive for a million

years, bye-byes are not for legends,

I'm forever young

My name shall survive"

Like I said earlier, this is not gonna be the conventional music theo-ry book, this book is something entirely different. I want this book to be of real use to you and not just something that tells you about some sharps and some flats- I want it to be your real companion. Before we go any step further, let's take a look at some very uncon-ventional music theories, by which I mean some really handy and useful quotes by some not-only-famous-and-successful-but-also-really-good musicians:

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Claude Debussy

I can t understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I am afraid of the old ones [ideas].

John Cage

The real music is not in the musical notes, but in the silence be-tween the musical notes.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

Musicians don t retire; they stop when there s no more music in them.

Louis Armstrong

If everything was okay and perfect, you would never ever learn and you would never ever grow.

Beyonc

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

Chris Martin

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

John Lennon

"Music is the weapon of the future."

Fela Kuti