Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
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#2Hacker News hug of death? I am new to guitar and was excited to see what this was.
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#3It appears that the site is somewhat image-heavy, hence the downtime. There are ~50 pages of content, each presented as an image link to a PDF.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tobyrus...
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#4Down for me. Here's a wayback machine cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20140226025639/http://tobyrush.c...
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#5It appears that the site is somewhat image-heavy, hence the downtime. There are ~50 pages of content, each presented as an image link to a PDF. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tobyrus...
This successfully gives you links that fail. I was hopeful that Google caches the PDFs, so that the links might not fail (with a bit of finagling) but apparently the cached PDFs are modified to be unreadable. :(
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tobyrus...
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#6It piqued my interest from the cached thumbnails, and I was able to find a mirror of the complete set:
http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/complete.pd...
It's licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, and Toby W. Rush is the author. Great resources by the way, better and more concise than a lot of theory info for beginners (bordering on intermediate, if you are able to get to some of the more advanced scales, structure and basic part-writing/voice leading at the end).
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#7Hacker News hug of death? I am new to guitar and was excited to see what this was.
You might want to just learn tablature for the time being, unless you're thinking of doing classical guitar.
Not to say don't read them of course; you can read what you like, just that tab is what you'll be using I would have thought.
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#8It piqued my interest from the cached thumbnails, and I was able to find a mirror of the complete set: http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/complete.pd... It's licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, and Toby W. Rush is the author. Great resources by the way, better and more concise than a lot of theory info for beginners (bordering on intermediate, if you are able to get to some of the more advanced sc…
A previous appearance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4807091.
(Normally we'd point the post at the URL that's working, but that pdf is already downloading so slowly that I fear we would just topple the next server over as well.)
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#9I appreciate the style of presentation, but why do we still pretend this is "music" theory? Most of this is completely useless for anyone who is interested in understanding music that wasn't written by people in powdered wigs.
For some actually useful music theory, I can recommend the goldmine that is Ethan Hein's blog: http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/category/music/music-theory/
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#10Hacker News hug of death? I am new to guitar and was excited to see what this was.
You might want to just learn tablature for the time being, unless you're thinking of doing classical guitar. Not to say don't read them of course; you can read what you like, just that tab is what you'll be using I would have thought.
Circle of fifths and scales are very relevant for guitar though, even if using tablature. And it would be very useful to learn basic treble clef reading to better understand chords and scales.