Help your kids with music : a unique step-by-step visual guide.

Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First American editionDescription: 256 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio discContent type: text | still image | sound | still image Media type: unmediated | audio Carrier type: volume | audiodiscISBN: 9781465436047Other title: MusicSubject(s): Music theory | Music -- Instruction and studySummary: MUSIC. "Help Your Kids with Music" is a step-by-step visual guide to music theory. "Help Your Kids with Music" is the perfect primer to help students gain a solid foundation in music, no matter their age, skill level, or instrument."Help Your Kids with Music" clearly explains key concepts in five step-by-step chapters: The Basics explains the types of instruments, notation for keyboard and stringed instruments, the "musical alphabet," and counting a beat.Rhythm covers the length of notes and rests, as well as basic rhythms and meters, phrasing, syncopation, tempo, and using a metronome.Tone and Melody includes everything a student needs to know about tones and how they work together to build a melody.Chords and Harmony shows how intervals work together and includes examples for horn and woodwind instruments.Form and Interpretation helps students understand how musical form can aid appreciation and interpretation for classical, jazz, blues, and other musical styles.
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Includes index.

MUSIC. "Help Your Kids with Music" is a step-by-step visual guide to music theory. "Help Your Kids with Music" is the perfect primer to help students gain a solid foundation in music, no matter their age, skill level, or instrument."Help Your Kids with Music" clearly explains key concepts in five step-by-step chapters: The Basics explains the types of instruments, notation for keyboard and stringed instruments, the "musical alphabet," and counting a beat.Rhythm covers the length of notes and rests, as well as basic rhythms and meters, phrasing, syncopation, tempo, and using a metronome.Tone and Melody includes everything a student needs to know about tones and how they work together to build a melody.Chords and Harmony shows how intervals work together and includes examples for horn and woodwind instruments.Form and Interpretation helps students understand how musical form can aid appreciation and interpretation for classical, jazz, blues, and other musical styles.

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