Allen Van Wert is a guitarist, author, inventor and music educator with over 30 years of teaching experience. He has reached more than three million students through platforms like JamPlay and TrueFire, teaching everyone from beginners to Grammy-winning artists.
He is the author of The Science of Music, the #1 best-selling music theory book on Amazon with over 25,000 copies sold, ranking in the top 0.002% of all books sold in the United States across any genre.
The Science of Music introduces the Cognitive-Weighting Theory of Modality, the first scientific framework for understanding how musical modes actually work in practice. For the first time in centuries, this has changed and progressed music theory forward into a system aligned with how humans actually hear music rather than how they write it on a page.
The book catalogues all 90 chord types with complete scale mappings, alternate root namings, guitar fretboard diagrams and piano keyboard layouts. It covers the musical alphabet, the major scale, triads, intervals, 7th chords, 9th chords, chord naming, chord shorthand, 10 scale systems, harmonizing every scale, chord progressions, the cycle of fourths, tonal center, modes, secondary dominant chords, basslines, melody, rhythm, time signatures, notation and more.
The foreword is written by Chris Adler, Grammy-winning drummer of Lamb of God and Megadeth. The book is endorsed by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal of Guns N' Roses and Grammy-winning producer GreazyWil Anspach. Three-time Grammy winner Darius Rucker purchased a signed copy.
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