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Rock Music Essentials

Rock Music Essentials uses rock to teach music theory along with the song-writing process, including composing songs with lyrics, drums, bass line, chord chart and keyboard notation.

Chapter 1 – Rapping rhythms
Chapter 2 – More notes and rests
Chapter 3 – What time is it?
Chapter 4 – Grouping notes as scales
Chapter 5 – Chords in the twelve-bar blues
Chapter 6 – Notes for melodies
Chapter 7 – Playing chords on the keyboard
Chapter 8 – Playing chords on the guitar
Chapter 9 – Effective brass parts
Chapter 10 – Grouping notes into ekys
Chapter 11 – Playing drum fills
Chapter 12 – Song structure
Chapter 13 – Writing your own blues song

Suitable for Year 9-10

Andrew Brown
Steve Dillon
Kevin Purcell

Rock Music Essentials

ISBN 978 0 85583 2407