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 contextualize music theory; - offers practical tips on how to identify intervals, make up melodies and rhythms, set words to music and much more; - with foreword and chapter introductions 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. Rock & Pop Theory: the essential guide is a joint publication, published by Faber Music and Edition Peters.