Music Theory for Computer Musicians

This book was recommended by a college music lecturer as ideal for beginners like me, and since I started working through it I have been highly impressed. It starts off slowly by introducing pitch, duration, intervals and notes, and works slowly into scales, chords and more complex matters. It really fired me up, and I like the exercises and the fact that you can download the answers, but not find them in the book (too easy to kid yourself and cheat). You can also download an MP3 version of the included CD so you can keep everything close to hand when working in Logic or whatever music software you're using; it works with most of them and deliberately references at least six different DAW titles with screen shots. There's a lot of information packed into it and I think it may take several passes of working through the book to absorb it, but it's a seriously good text for helping you start to learn the theoretical foundations of music.The early part of the book has a lot of grammatical or semantic errors, which was distracting at times while trying to study; the author's editor let him down I'd say. Fortunately each time a little thought enabled me to work out what the author meant; it's a minor niggle in a book which has so much to offer. I'd recommend this book for anyone starting out in music theory who is willing to work hard studying it; music is a complicated subject so there's no easy route to learning about it, but this does smooth the path a fair bit.

Love this book as it is exactly what it says on the tin. I especially love the translation to piano roll which is what most computer musicians work with 90%+ of the time.The style of writing makes what is often dull reading interesting and engaging.Worth every penny!

Love this book, only just starting up bedroom producing and this book has given me confidence and conviction from to off.The music audio files to accompany the book are free online and it comes with a CD inside the book for help with sound examples. And by a Welsh man.....Nuff said!

Very useful book and in depth. The disc that comes with it is a nice little bonus . Only downside is it is quite expensive

Excellent guide explaining things in simple terms, without being for complete beginners. I have found this very useful and a great read

As some reviewer said, this book is filled with mistakes. However, they don't impact the teaching, which is overall of good quality.

Very direct style and clearly explains the fundamentals for budding musicians

Plenty of great info in here. Would recommend this book to someone starting out with a DAW and wants some basic music theory