"Music Basics with Online Resources"
by Gretchen Peregrine

BOOK CORRECTIONS

• Lesson 2
• First Edition:
• Test on Pg. 46
  The fifth (bottom) line did not print properly for nos. 6-9.
  Draw in the fifth line for these numbers.
  
• Test on Pg. 46 Question #10 and #13 answers have been changed click here
  
  
• Second Edition:
• Link at bottom of 25 is no longer available.
  
  

• Lesson 3
  • pg. 50 II. STEMS AND BEAMS
    The diagram is correct. Switch the order of the 1st two bullets to match the picture.

 

• Lesson 4
  • pg. 70
    No. 5 should have a bar line after the first note. The first eighth note is a pickup.
    Also, delete the final eighth rest on the line. (11/14/05)

 

• Lesson 6
  • pg. 89 Example 1: > is an accent mark and should be played strong! (2/13/06)

• Lesson 11
  • Add to p. 132:
    "tip: A tritone can be called an Aug. 4th, OR a dim 5. Both intervals are played six half steps above the root."

• Lesson 12
  • Pg. 150 add the following:
    Typical symbols for 7th chords:
    C Major +M7 = Cmaj7
    C Major +m7 = C7
    c minor +m7 = Cm7
    c dim + m7 = C half dim. 7
    c dim + d7 = Co7
    C Aug + m7 = C+(7) Take off B# in textbook
    
  • Pg. 156 Question #3 should read: "Which kind of chord is made up of two minor thirds?" (11/14/05)
    
  • Pg. 156 Question #6 should read:
    A C7 chord is made up of:
    

    a C major triad + M7
    a C major triad + m7
    all minor thirds

• Page 162
  Website change for Coldplay's "The Scientist": http://words3music.100free.com/sheets.html
  Add online reference for Coldplay's "Clocks" example http://www.8notes.com/school/riffs/piano/coldplay_clocks.asp
  
• Lesson 14
  • Page 172
    Fill in the left hand chords to "America." The Roman numeral above the letter refers to the chord you will put in the left hand (within the F key)
  • Page 173
    Edelweiss has been in C up to this point, but the roman numerals allow you to put it in a different key.
    Transpose to a new key...try "D" and apply all the chords to the D scale (I=D, V=A, etc.)

 

• Page 189 Enharmonic Keyboard
  The chromatic half step above D should read D#, not B#.

• Keyboard foldout page at the back of the book:
  Go to the 2nd A below middle C.
  The chromatic half step above this A should read A#, not C#.
  The same problem is on the picture pg. 27.