So many good ladybird books, so little time.
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No, you can’t forward it on until you’ve sewn your own cosplay outfit to look like someone on the cover.
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I have been contemplating this all day long.
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Is there one for ear training? I could really use that. 
I think you’d be good at it!
what is a ladybird book?
It’s a series of books for children popular in Britain from the 1950’s onwards. Lots of us grew up reading those books.
Here’s a link to the music theory subreddit FAQ which has a lot of good stuff in it https://reddit.com/r/musictheory/w/index?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app
If you get good enough, you too can go on the forum and argue with a bunch of other self important knobs about what a chord is called or why we should/shouldn’t use modes 
and just in case. you’re dying to know what hyperboleon tetrachords are, there’s a section on music theory history.
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That music theory sub-Reddit does bring the drama from time to time from people with questionable judgement about hills to die on.
On the whole, it is a good music theory resource. The monthly “What’s New in Music Theory” section is gold, particularly the recap of YouTube videos created by music theory content creators that month.
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Now, this is hilarious. Are these real books?
my guess is someone photoshopped the titles
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Still, they are hilarious
Yes, this all makes perfect sense , also your first answer. I think it may help also to realize that in a scale you need some version of each named note - need a C, D , E, F, G, A, B. So you can’t have a scale with a C and C#, it has to be a C and a Db. The information you lose by misnaming a note is information about the scale. I hope this is as well said and correctly explained as Joerg’s messages.
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Good point! I had heard that before, but “forgotten” again 
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thanks! makes sense
Yes, until… (and I hate to be the one to do this) you get to the blues scale 
C minor blues:
C, Eb, F, Gb, G and Bb
C major blues:
C, D, Eb, E, G, and A
(edit to fix accidentals)
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Shouldn’t that be Gb and Eb respectively? You also generally don’t mix sharps and flats in a key.
You’re right, thanks! I just copied/pasted it and didn’t look closely enough at it. The major doesn’t matter, guitarists like sharps
fixed.
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