Harmony: For Beginners

by Forslund Music

You can read this book for free with your Kindle Unlimited Membership This book is the perfect guide if you’re a beginner who wants to learn more about harmony and what chords to use. You will get some hands-on help, teaching you how to put chords to an existing melody, including how to find out what chords work for the key signature and how often you should change chord. In this book you will How to choose chords for your melody The basics of four part harmony Example Exercises for Beginners The book includes exercises that you can do by yourself and detailed explanations for each of them so that you can be sure that you’re doing them right. You will also learn about four part harmony, meaning writing music for the four parts of a traditional choir, which is the basis of much Western music. Buy this book today and start learning about harmony!

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Published June 11, 2024

Reviews

[RM(Alwaysdaddygirl) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay.

This is a short book. It was an okay read. A person needs to be familiar with music terminology. I am not. The book mentions reading their other book to get familiar with the terms and concepts of music and what makes music. However, I would have like to have a slight taste of what some of these words mean. Therefore, the exercises were boring to me. I mentioned in the other reviews the book cover needs to be jazz up to entice someone to book a book by an unknown author. I only give this book 3 stars out of 5 stars for it at least the ending give some heartful advice and not sugar coating. I received this book free in exchange for an honest review.
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[Icy_Space_Cobwebs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Next in the series of Forslund Music's teaching guides, HARMONY FOR BEGINNERS leads readers through the theory and practice of learning to compose harmony in music. To understand music is the first step to appreciation, and these guides are useful in that direction. I particularly enjoyed learning about the differences in Western music from music in other parts of the globe, and about how Renaissance music composition relied on cultural and societal values and so widely differs from contemporary music perception.

[Ounis Zoubir · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only explanation

This will not teach you harmony but give you a simple explanation. I was very disappointed. if you need to understand better harmony better to look for a book that explain it with exercices not only vague explanation like this one.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book definitely provides some valuable information. It offers some example exercises which is useful for those who just starting out in music. I think it’s an excellent resource of information.