The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences: Includes All the Major, Minor (Natural, Harmonic, Melodic) & Chromatic Scales -- Plus Additional Instructions on Music Fundamentals Paperback – August 1, 1994

I read the reviews and found them to be very accurate. The book has some information in the front section that was very helpful. I've read music and was self learned on the piano starting at age 7. Played flute in band and Orchestra. And had music theory classes in high school and college, and yet there were things that I discovered for the first time by purchasing this book. Looking forward to learning more as I work my way through this book.

I have an AS in music and played fir years, based mostly on jazz theory, as they called theory in my fabulous college 50 years aho. If you're a site reader, this book's perfect. I was hoping it would be like basic books that had illustrations and notes instead of music notation. So I guess I can't practice with it until I can read after 35 years. But it looks fabulous. Great info.

Really good musical reference book

Very well written and very instructional. Highly recommend

The one I received appears to be one nobody would buy in a store because it’s bound completely off center. Disappointed, but at least it’s still fully readable. Also has remnants of black writing on the cover. The contents themselves look very useful.

The Alfred Complete Book Of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios and Cadences is an extraordinarily well put together format. They spend the first dozen or so pages explaining the theory behind how scales and chords are put together. They do indicate that they are best learned by practice, but the theory at the beginning of the book is an excellent resource.They formatted the scales extraordinarily well. Starting around page 16 you start the key of C Major, with every major and minor scale following that as well as two pages of Chromatic scales at the end, a page on harmonizing the scales, a page with blocked scales and accelerating scales followed by Expanding scales, and scales in double thirds, double sixths and octaves. After that they have Scales in the Grand Form, followed by broken triads, triad chains and cadences. The back of the book finally has a scale fingering chart.Back to the format of the regular scales though. I'll illustrate what they do with C Major, which they do for the rest of the scales. All of C Major is listed on the two pages you have open when you turn there. First there are parallel motion in octaves, followed by contrary motion starting on the same note, parallel motion in thirds or tenths, parallel motion in sixths. On the following page (which you're already opened to) they have the C Major Triads: Root Position along with the primary chords, the C Major Cadences, C Major Arpeggios, and Dominant Seventh Arpeggios. This is an excellent resource for any student pursuing understanding in piano.I have been playing piano for several years and never have grasped such a great understanding of the instrument until purchasing this book. I find that songs come so much more easily now just as long as I practice the scales before playing. The brain is a wonderful thing, but you do need to give it some fundamentals to work with, and this book of scales are the answer.Well worth the cost, I would've been willing to pay more for this book than the $9 I payed for it. Highly recommended.

I like this book because of the bright white paper, dark printing and larger size of the text. My version of the book is bound with a thick, durable plastic coil. Also, there's information about circle of fifths, sharps and flats, tetrachords, intervals, and everything else promised in the description.The only thing I don't like is that some of the pages are off-center, and the print disappears into the binding ring. Not enough of a problem to return, however.Overall, quite satisfied. Works well for a renewed beginner with less-than-perfect vision. It's easier for children to read, too. Would purchase for others.

I've not gotten far into this book, but what I've covered has helped me. I'm a guitar player who decided to learn piano. My goal with this book is to learn some basic chords and chord progressions, as well as digging into the scales that go with them. This book has provided what I need. It provides some good fundamentals in connection with scales, chords, arpeggios and cadences. The chord progressions are simple, as well as the chords. You're primarily covering triads. Yet, challenging enough to keep me busy for quite a while. All the scales and arpeggios are covered in detail, along with suggested practice exercises. I'm really enjoying it so far, and see no reason that I won't feel this way about the rest of the book. The beginning of the book provides a nice explanation of basic theory. Along with basic theory, inverted chords are also covered in the early stages. Those chords are included with root position chords in the cadences. That's the pattern all the way through the book. All in all this book has been good for me, a startup pianist. And it's a no brainer for the cost. Add it to your library. Let me though sound a warning: If you purchase the Kindle copy and want to print it off, you'll have to convert your kindle format to a print friendly format. If you don't like that idea get the paper copy. But if you're a beginner like me, you'd do well to add this book to your library.