Discover the Secrets
Behind the Sound
Tom Regis’s music theory book From Beethoven to Bill Evans: Western Harmony Simplified isn’t just a book—it’s an invitation to explore the surprisingly compact and straightforward architecture of Western music through the eyes of a lifelong composer, performer, and thinker.
In this groundbreaking guide, Tom Regis takes you beyond music notes and chords into the structural essence of harmony. How is it that just six basic chords have such enduring power and create such seemingly complex beauty? What are the fundamental chord patterns that connect Beethoven to the greats of the jazz world like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans . . . ? What harmonic commonalities underlie the formative history of classical music, the history of jazz, the history of rock, and the history of popular music and blues?
With a rare blend of clarity and depth, Regis reveals how harmonic principles aren’t just rules to follow – they provide a blueprint that once understood reveals a simple design that will liberate a musician, allowing entry into the transcendent world of storytelling with sound, a world that goes far beyond mere music analysis, piano lessons, and rote music education. This is a jazz (and classical) harmony book for beginners to experts alike, a must have music theory book from author Tom Regis.
