Scales at a Glance: Setting Music Theory on Its Ear

At last, a scale theory book that was written with students, rather than teachers, in mind! In Clea Saal, a dyslexic who found the staff to be an incredibly frustrating device, replaces the traditionally tedious task of memorizing countless scales with an unbelievably simple visual approach, one that turns even the most complex scale structure into something that can be grasped by a student in his or her first music lesson. Even though this book was written with beginners in mind, its approach will also bring an unexpected relief to the more advanced students out there, as it will allow them to instantly visualize all the modes of any scale, and it will also provide them with an effective tool to help them understand the structure of all those scales that are foreign to the Western tradition. In a little more than a hundred pages this book covers a wide range of topics. It begins with the definition of what is a note, and goes all the way to the concept of microtonal systems... and it does this in a way that is accessible to those who are unfamiliar, or uncomfortable, with musical notation as such. In fact, with the exception of one chapter dealing with that particular subject, the staff is barely even mentioned in this book's pages!