90 pages to jump in a simple and intuitive approach to understand and learn to play music. An innovative method for everyone and every kind of instrument.
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Explore the basic concepts of music with simple explanations and detailed illustrations. Music made simple and accessible to all.
Discover Dodeka alternative music notation and learn how to play music without having spend time on music theory.
Get started on the Dodeka methodology with a series of scores available at the end of the book. Learn how to easily and quickly read and play "Brother Jacob" or "The letter to Elise".
Jacques-Daniel Rochat is the founder and CEO of Dodeka Music.
Inventor, musician and author of several educational books, Jacques-Daniel has been captivated by the beauty of music since his early childhood. Yet after a few lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Geneva, he quit his music lessons frustrated by the complexity of music theory. Instead of finding another passion like most young people of his age, Jacques-Daniel creates Dodeka - a simple and intuitive way to approach music, which he makes us discover in this book accessible to every kind musician.
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Most people and musicians do not know that more than 90% of what they learn in music theory is useless.
Music theory and its notation system are the result of a long construction process over the centuries, to which composers and musicians have contributed a wealth of concepts.This slow progression has unfortunately not made it possible to question the foundations that were laid down in Antiquity. Indeed, all conventional music theory is built so as to give preference to notes and musical intervals that are pleasing to the ear. In this way, without realizing it, musicians arbitrarily selected seven out of the twelve notes that exist in music. After that, in order to indicate the five “lost” notes, it was necessary to create an extremely complex system of corrections- using sharps and flats. On top of this, there is a more serious problem. The notes that were chosen in the C-major scale have irregular intervals.The structure that they make up is just one possible variant. The fact that this particular scale has been used as a reference has led the entire concept of music theory to be constructed on just one sample of music!It is this sample of music that is seen through five lines on music scores or piano keyboards. This absurd situation can be compared to an author being forced to write his books using the same sentence structure throughout. So, without even knowing it, musicians and composers continue to annotate and correct this imposed sample of music to create and play their work. The immense complexity of this notation is nearly infinite and makes it necessary to gain, year after year, an enormous amount of knowledge that is, frankly, totally useless! However, this is not inevitable. Dodeka is the proof that a language made up from the “alphabet” of music can make it clear and accessible to everyone.This return to the real base of music gives proper emphasis to all twelve notes and makes it possible to freely create the various structures that make up the scales and chords.Not only does the awareness of musical architecture make it much easier to learn music, but it also makes it possible to understand how music interacts so delightfully with human emotions.
Dodeka is a simple, intuitive and innovative way to learn to play music for a new generation of musicians.Dodeka reinvents musical notation and the piano keyboard design to give beginners a simple way to make music without going through music theory. At the same time, it allows more experienced musicians to explore new possibilities in musical expression.Who said that learning to play music was difficult? Surely not Dodeka!Learn more
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