The Exciting Universe Of Music Theory

Tons of progress

Added 2026-01-02 15:10:29 +0000 UTC

During this holiday time off from my day job, I've spent many hours and entire days working on the book. It's been fun and relaxing and rewarding to have so much focus time. The first and last chapters are completely done, and "Volume 2: The Scales" is finally complete. That was a massive job.

I made a lot of progress on "Volume 1: The Splaining", with finishing touches on the entire first and last chapters. This morning I updated my spreadsheet where I keep all the tasks organized, and here are the results.

The book is 82.84% done. When a section is marked as done, that means it's proofread and polished and fact-checked, to the point where I would be confident publishing it. A further 18.93% of the book is unfinished, that means a section has some content in it but it's neither complete nor polished. And then 11.83% of the sections have not been started. Mind you many of those are the Preamble and Summary sections of each chapter.

I must admit I'm deflated by seeing these numbers, since I spent so much of my holiday chipping away at it, and I thought the done score would be in the 90s, at least... but hey I did also expand and increase the scope of the book by adding new concepts and sections that were not in the original plan.

And, finishing the entirety of Volume 2 is no small achievement! At the beginning of my holiday, that book was an incomplete mess. I've since fixed all the font issues, so... three cheers for me. huzzah!

I predict that the book will for sure be published in 2026. That goal feels good, and achievable.

I hope you all had a good holiday of some sort.
Ian