Book excerpt: Understand Your Favorite Music This book is for adults and teens who play an instrument, singers, video game music composers, music producers, and people who want to understand the music they love. Comes with 80+ FREE video examples so you can stop wondering what written music sounds like and hear it which means a deeper understanding and connection to the music! ($89.99 Value!) Comes with FREE Music Theory Flash Cards so you can use music theory now to help you understand and make music! ($9.99 Value!) Inspired by failing his college entrance music theory exam, musician and educator Dan Spencer set out to find a fast and easy way to understand music theory. Fully revised and updated with student feedback, the 3rd Edition of the #1 Amazon Best-Seller “The Best Music Theory Book for Beginners 1” gives everything you need to know to read, write, and understand your favorite music. This book is perfect for absolute beginners, and for musicians and music students who already know a little music theory. This book is so easy even people who have never played music can jump in and get started! Comes with FREE video examples and 50 FREE flash cards...$99.89 value...for FREE! Understand music theory the right way from the ground up so you can save time and make real progress. Read and write music so you can start creating your own songs and compositions! How to write notes by hand and which software to use for writing music on a computer. (pages 15, 61) How to identify time signatures by listening to music so you can tell what time signature your favorite songs are in. (pages 30-31) No more wasting time trying to learn theory on the internet - you have a perfect collection of the correct information and easy-to-understand explanations so you can “get it”! Fully revised and updated with student feedback, this 3rd Edition of the #1 Best-Seller gives you more graphics, explanations, and 4 new pages which means more theory, easy learning, and understanding - fast! After completing this book you will know how to read, write and understand: Rhythm 1 How to read, write and understand Whole notes Half notes Quarter notes How to Clap Rhythms Barlines Regular barlines Double bar lines Final bar lines Measures How to understand, read, and write time signatures 4/4 3/4 Percussion Clef How to write your own music Rhythm 2 Strong and weak beats Rhythm 3 How to understand, read, and write Whole rests Half rests Quarter rests How to write your own music 2 Rhythm 4 How to read, write, and understand dotted half notes Tied notes Repeat signs Pitch and Notes 1 How sound is defined Tone Timbre Melody Notes How to write your own music 3: treble clef Ledger lines Pitch and Notes 2 Accidentals 1 Enharmonic equivalents The full musical alphabet: the 12 notes of music Pitch and Notes 3 How to read, write, and understand diatonic major scales Key signatures Relative keys How to find the relative minor of a major key...and SO much more.