CHAPTER17
Special Notation
In This Chapter
- Discovering how to notate phrasing with slur marks
- Writing and playing embellished notes, including turns, trills, and grace notes
- Learning how to play music with a swing feel
- Fitting words to music
Some aspects of music theory just don’t fit neatly within traditional categories. Still, you need to know about them, so I have to include them somewhere in this book.
That somewhere is this chapter. It’s kind of a grab bag of more advanced techniques, mainly relating to notation, that you need to have at your fingertips—even if you won’t use them every day.
So settle back and read about some of the oddball ...
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