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Found 6 comments on Berklee Music Theory Book 1:

u/DanielleMuscato · 3 pointsr/Guitar

If you don't know how to sightread, this is a good time to get good at that. Pack a metronome and a replacement AA battery or two and you're set for 6 months no problem. For books, try:

Jay Weik's Daily Sight-Reading Studies for the Guitarist, Large Print Edition:
http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Guitar-Reading-Technique-Studies/dp/0786682809

Make sure you get the large-print edition, because the "normal" edition is actually a pocket-sized "Quick Guide" that is tiny.

This has 30 daily studies that will have you sight reading full chords in 1 month if you work on it every day.

Another great resource for sight reading is this one from Berklee:
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Studies-Guitar-Positions-Multi-Position/dp/0634013351

I also recommend a theory book, for example Berklee's Music Theory 101 books 1 & 2 as used at Berklee College of Music:
http://www.amazon.com/Berklee-Music-Theory-Book-Edition/dp/0876391102

Get these, a Real Book for jazz standards, and some note-for-note transcriptions of albums you want to learn for the metal stuff. Books are available for lots of major label albums if you search for them. Make sure you use a metronome to practice. You don't need anything fancy; something like this will work just fine:

http://www.amazon.com/Qwiktime-QT3-Qwik-Time-Metronome/dp/B0002F75EM/ref=zg_bs_11965901_9

Hope this helps! Have fun.

u/LukeSniper · 2 pointsr/Guitar

Theory can be weird when it comes to songwriting and composing.

If you don't know anything, your songwriting is really free and wide open.

When you know a little bit, it's easy to feel boxed in by "the rules".

Eventually, when you learn enough, you understand that there are no rules, and you are once again able to freely write, but you have your theory knowledge to guide you. You can find the sounds you're looking for quicker, and more reliably.

One of my composition teachers once told me "the reason you learn this stuff is to forget it", and that always stuck with me. So make sure to keep that in mind as you learn stuff.

I recommend the Berklee theory book. It's not exactly what they use in class (although it may be now, I graduated there back in 2010), but it is a great book.

I already knew a lot before I started at Berklee, but the way they organized and presented the information there just made more sense to me. It may not resonate with you the same way, but that's how it goes sometimes. You just have to find a teacher, book, program that looks at things in a way that works for you.

u/jdineen1995 · 2 pointsr/makinghiphop

Pretty much all the Berklee method stuff is excellent. Here’s a link: https://www.amazon.com/Berklee-Music-Theory-Book-1/dp/0876391102

u/MisterPickles121 · -1 pointsr/Guitar

ok man, you're right. whatever you say. ann coulter, bill oreilly ... etc use sources in their publishing first of all. secondly. that's a mistake to add those pundits into the conversation becuase they sell based on popularity. if you are trying to LEARN something,using a credited, published book
maybe something like this http://www.amazon.com/Berklee-Music-Theory-Book-2nd/dp/0876391102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450295738&sr=8-1&keywords=music+theory+berklee

which was super fast for me to find, and I know it's credible and organized. whereas going 'on the internet' will leav eyou finding little pieces of information that you have to put together by yourself, and will not know whetehr it's right or wrong.

again this is teh second time that you are calling me out for syaing "ALL BOOKS ARE BETTER THAN THE INTERNET" and I didnt say that. of course I can name a book with bullshit in it. but that's not hte point. thersbullshit on both sides. but you're MUCH MUCH more reliable to get a random book and learn loads more from it than 'the internet'.