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Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« on: January 10, 2016, 06:48:53 am »
How does it work?

I know it's only available to read online, but why? Can it be converted to pdf? Does it include videos? How is the book organized?

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Re: Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2016, 09:21:44 am »
How does it work?

I know it's only available to read online, but why? Can it be converted to pdf? Does it include videos? How is the book organized?

It isn't available in a PDF presumably so that it can't be stolen, its only available online through the website or through an android app,iOS, etc etc. The majority of it is based on song layout clips from the website, they analyze popular songs and their chord progressions, the clips are all videos of songs that people put on the website (the normal free version of the site where u can look up a song and see it's melody and chord progression). It walks you through those and analyzes the melody and progression. The "book" is primarily about this, it doesn't really introduce any complex theory or go deeply into the modes. After teaching you how to construct major and minor scales It teaches you popular chord tendencies such as how the root acts as home base, ending on V or IV (cadence), and how notes in the melody can create dissonance or consonance with the underlying chords. It does a great job of explaining everything they teach you with a clip example right after, I just wish it taught more material.

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Re: Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2016, 05:07:04 pm »
Exactly what I wanted to know, thank you.

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Re: Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2016, 07:06:50 pm »
Krane really hit the nail on the head.  I bought it too for iPad, it is definitely good for learning basics and how to read their platform.  I wish it taught popular chord progressions in minor though, I only recall learning major progressions
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Re: Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2016, 09:45:43 pm »
Krane really hit the nail on the head.  I bought it too for iPad, it is definitely good for learning basics and how to read their platform.  I wish it taught popular chord progressions in minor though, I only recall learning major progressions

If you want to learn popular chord progressions in minor they are relatively the same. All you need to do is lower the 3rd interval on every Major key. The second chord in the minor scale becomes a diminished and the 6th and 7th chords become flat Majors.

e.g. C Major scale in chords is C Major (C E G), D minor (D F A), E minor (E G B), F Major (F A C), G Major (G B D), A minor (A C E), B diminished (B D F),


C minor scale - C minor (C Eb G), D diminished ( D F Ab), Eb Major(Eb G Bb), F minor (F Ab C), G minor (G Bb D), Ab Major (Ab C Eb), Bb Major (Bb D F)


So a 1 - 4 - 5 progression in C major & C minor would both be C F G but the only difference is you lower the 3rd interval of each chord when playing in a minor key.

This would then change harmonies and melodies ect...

Hope that helped somewhat dude. And if you already knew all this stuff then... :P

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Re: Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2016, 10:29:05 pm »
Greatest $13 investment of my life. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone no matter how good at music theory you are
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Re: Question For Anyone Who's Purchased HookTheory
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2016, 02:19:30 pm »
How does it work?

I know it's only available to read online, but why? Can it be converted to pdf? Does it include videos? How is the book organized?

It isn't available in a PDF presumably so that it can't be stolen, its only available online through the website or through an android app,iOS, etc etc. The majority of it is based on song layout clips from the website, they analyze popular songs and their chord progressions, the clips are all videos of songs that people put on the website (the normal free version of the site where u can look up a song and see it's melody and chord progression). It walks you through those and analyzes the melody and progression. The "book" is primarily about this, it doesn't really introduce any complex theory or go deeply into the modes. After teaching you how to construct major and minor scales It teaches you popular chord tendencies such as how the root acts as home base, ending on V or IV (cadence), and how notes in the melody can create dissonance or consonance with the underlying chords. It does a great job of explaining everything they teach you with a clip example right after, I just wish it taught more material.

isn't theorytab enough ? what do you think ?