User:Earhacker/Earhacker Guide to Music Theory

This is [a sandbox/work-in-progress version of] the Earhacker Guide to Music Theory. This is [going to be] an accessible reference material and learning resource suitable for everyone. This book will [eventually] teach not only the principles of music theory but some of the underlying science behind those principles, in the hope that a thorough understanding of the "why" will encourage memory and cognition of the "how."

I [will have] created this book and made it available for free because traditionally the ability to make music, while being taught through academic instruction, was also transmitted orally by the common man. This book represents an effort to enable the modern-day common man to do the same. Today, popular music is far more complicated than in times past, and thus more instruction is required. This however does not mean that the knowledge and information required to make music should be paid for. Academic institutions in every field make their profit based on that fallacy. Information should be free. I want to live in a world where everyone who wants to express themselves musically can do so, without fear.

Topics covered are [going to be, maybe] :


 * Rhythm
 * The Octave and How We Split It
 * WTF is a Harmonic?
 * Timbre

[And so on until I get bored.]

''[Estimated completion date for the first draft is December 2011. I made this in my user page because I want to edit it myself for a while. This is as much a part of my learning as yours. So basically don't fuck with it. When I copy it over to its own book page, do what you want with it. Until then, it's mine.]''