This definitive choice of educators and students around the globe, covers the fundamentals of scales, cadences, and arpeggios with studies and exercises in every major and minor key. Presented in a clear, concise, and logical manner, this complete resource will benefit both beginners and advanced students. Going above and beyond, this phenomenal text includes bonus sections on transposition, sight reading, ear training, and basic music theory. In music, the Tonic Note is the basis for which a scale and key is determined and is considered to be the most important tone in a key. It is not only the tonal center but the pitch to which all other notes and chords resolve. By extension, the chord built on that note becomes the most significant chord of the key, as all others tend to resolve to it. This chord is generally referred to as the I Chord since it is built on the first degree of the scale in that particular key. Read More In Western Music of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries, the Tonic was historically the most important of all the tones which a composer used in a piece of music. Most pieces began with that note or chord, developed with a series of themes and progressions, and then typically ended with it as well. This generally accepted form of the day gave the listener a strong sense of beginning, middle, and end. In musical form and analysis, we often refer to these sections of a composition as the Exposition, the Development, and the Recapitulation. The great composers of the day were masters of developing a piece to its full potential as they told a story through their music while taking the listener on a journey to the outer limits and then back again. The Complete Book of Scales, Cadences and Arpeggios is designed to give the student this same sense of the Tonal Center in every key, and through careful attention to scales, arpeggios, and chord progressions, open the door to the infinite possibilities of what might occur at the beginning, throughout the process of development, and when the piece is finally concluded.
