Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers
by J. Anthony Allen · J. Anthony Allen
A self-published primer by a composer and electronic music educator that teaches scales, chords, progressions, melody and bass lines through the piano roll and DAW rather than notation. Readers learn to write harmonically coherent tracks without reading sheet music.
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