Rock & Pop Theory: The Essential Guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music, this indispensable guide:

• introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm, harmony, scales, instruments,
musical forms and structure
• outlines the conventions governing music notation, applying these specifically to rock & pop music
• provides interesting facts and real music examples to contextualise music theory
• offers practical tips on how to identify intervals, make up melodies and rhythms, set words to
music and much more
• includes an introduction and ‘theory in practice’ notes by renowned educationalist Paul Harris
• contains quick-reference tools including an appendix, list of further repertoire examples, table
of instruments, periods of music history, table of scales and modes and summary keys and
time signatures