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Book Illustrated Music from Scratch

You download it on December 10

The way into the collection. It starts earlier than everything else: what a note is, what a scale is, how a chord is built and how to play it in time and in shape. Guitar and piano together, with a chapter on how to walk into each of my books.

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I'm writing and illustrating it right now. Reserve it today at the launch price and I'll let you know the moment it's ready.

What you'll find

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It starts earlier than everything else — What a note is, what a scale is, what a string is, how a chord is built. I take nothing for granted: if you've never played, this is the book you start with.
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Guitar and piano, put together — Not one chapter per instrument. It's how they split the register, what each one plays and the basic rhythm that holds the two together.
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Playing in time and in shape — The goal of the whole book, and it's smaller than it sounds: being able to hold the chords in time. That's enough to open any of my books.
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A chapter for each book in the collection — How to walk into each one. The mandalas in Illustrated Harmony are intimidating because they hold many chords at once, until you break them apart and see they play simply on piano and guitar.
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No sheet music, as always — Diagrams, colours and chord symbols. If you can read the letters, you can already follow it.
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Apps and example videos — Like the rest of my books, it will include interactive apps and example videos so you can hear and bring every explanation to life. I'm still working out how many of each.

I'm a Visual Person.

I realized that many of us need to see information visually. However, there is very little music theory literature that explains complex chord modulations and progressions with shapes, arrows, and colors.
In these books, ways are presented to—literally—see harmony and, on every page, creative and visual composition is encouraged.

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VIDEOS
App on horizontal phone
App on vertical phone

Like all my books, Illustrated Music from Scratch will include example videos so you can hear and bring every explanation to life. I'm still producing them: they'll arrive together with the book.

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