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excited to own a big book of music theory because if i never again have to read a page on the subject from wikipedia or (god forbid) an ad-supported website with one thousand Advertising Partners with Legitimate Interests it'll be too soon
this is the book: ”Stora musikguiden: Musikteori för alla” by Roine Jansson, ISBN 978-91-86825-04-1
i guess this is cheap and boring enough that posting about it doesn't feel too much like “conspicuous consumption”? hopefully the ToC is meaningful even if you don't speak swedish
naturally my baka overachiever ass sees an example of music notation on the first page and instead of reading on decides to spend half an hour trying to play checks notes probably the most cliché first song to learn on piano ever
i think if i make a point of doing all the exercises in this book on guitar rather than on keyboard, i'll probably achieve everything that that one book i saw about reading conventional music notation for guitar players would have wanted to teach me (i didn't buy that one)
naturally, being written in swedish and in the 21st century, the very first page of the main text is forced to address the whole thing where B is traditionally called H lmao
honestly alternating between singing a scale, playing a scale, singing it while playing it, and singing it while merely fingering it, is always a good practice exercise