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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LEARNING MUSIC was originally self-published in 2006 It came with a CD that had 32 demonstration tracks which helped students understand concepts from the book. The CD was no longer included when the book became available worldwide on Amazon in 2017.
Now the original CD is available through this series of videos. You are encouraged to subscribe, that way you'll see when other videos become available.
WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK I like to help people. Ive been teaching music since I was in high school. I came from a family of music teachers, my mother & father and three of my grandparents.
One day in 2006, I realized I had acquired a huge amount of knowledge about music and I came to the conclusion that I needed to take responsibility for that by writing a book which would help others achieve this knowledge.
As a working musician and teacher, I was frustrated with the complexity and difficult learning curve of music instruction books available to the general public. In my formative years, I studied many music theory books. Although they contained important data about improvisation and composition, etc., they were often written in an over-complex way. These books would include non-essential data and werent organized in a logical sequence. For example, a book would mention an important term on page 35 but not define that term until page 115.
I decided to write my own textbook to help train my students.
My book starts at the beginning and goes through to super advanced data in a step-by-step fashion. I made sure to define each new term right when it was first introduced. I included only essential theory.
And, perhaps most important, I included simple yet powerful practice methods each step of the way.
The result: students and teachers rave about how "The Complete Guide to Learning Music" makes music instruction easy.I use "The Complete Guide to Learning Music" when teaching private lessons to debug areas of non-comprehension, producing startling results with my students.
This reference and musical training manual is used by keyboardists, singers, guitarists, drummers and percussionists, horn, string and woodwind players to break through the wall of musical complexity to actually attain their musical goals.
You can master the secrets of playing, improvising and composing.
-Bill Keis