Rock Music Essentials

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