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| | Product Details | | Author: | Rikky Rooksby | | Paperback: | 192 pages | | Publisher: | Miller Freeman Books | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2000 | | ISBN: | 0879306114 | | Package Length: | 11.02 inches | | Package Width: | 8.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.63 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.68 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 32 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Book May 27, 2008
I checked this book out of the library so many times that I finally decided to buy it. The chord progressions and examples are what make this book great, and they apply to all types of musical instruments. I use this book to compose on the computer, then sequence the songs into synthesizers.
As for the negative reviews, my guess is that they don't understand what a chord progression is. But if you do, and especially if you've ever gotten stuck as a songwriter, get this book.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Artificially Inflated Text Nov 12, 2007
A lot of technical issues covered. The outstanding thing about this book (& by outstanding I mean the thing that stands out, not the thing that is excellent) is that the author wants to tell you every song that fits into each and every category that he mentions. Example: for the chord sequence I, IV, VI, V there are ten examples in contemporay music and He wants to name each and every one of them, then he will do the same thing for chord sequence I, VI, IV, V. Etcetera ad nauseum! This is a thin book; It could be a lot thinner and convey the same amount of (interesting) information.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Excellent resource... Oct 09, 2007
This book is not going to make you a great guitar player and this book is not going to make you a creative person(but what book can??) What this book will do is give you a very strong foundation for chordal progression. The pop song which has been predominant for the last 50 years is analyzed in a straightforward handsome manner. A person with a basic understanding of guitar chords can get through this book and it is an excellent reference guide for those that are advanced musicians.
This book is great for connecting the dots musically. For example, if you have written a bunch of riffs but don't know how to turn them into a song this book can help you gain direction.
Again this book can't make you creative but it can help a creative person get a lot more output from focused effort. This book can give your chord sequences direction in affect turning your meandering strumming into an actual song.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
excellent Aug 14, 2007
The book is 90% about writing songs with guitar chords. Sections on lyric writing didn't impress me. The very short chapter on making a demo recording was excellent and almost a great (though very very short) book on its own.
Best real-world, practical explanation of chords and chord progressions I've ever read. (in the rock and pop genre.) Really breaks down song and musical structures of popular songs. Another great point is inclusion of recent as well as 60s and 70s rock songs. For example, one page analyzes a Fat Boy Slim song.
My knowledge and understanding increased greatly from this book.
There are so many great example progressions that you can open the book at random, play around with something on the page and come up with something.
This book does not go into the "front end" of the psychology or craft of creativity.
One of the best books on creating music I've ever read.
Also check out "The War of Art" for a brilliant and inspiring book about creating.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Superb Book Jan 09, 2007
I have been playing guitar, and writing songs for 15 years. I learned a good bit from this book that I wish I would have known when I first started 15 years ago. You probably think you know how to write a song, but unless you have been trained in music theory, you probably have just been doing things that sound good without understanding why. This book does not go into extreme detail on any one subject in songwriting, its sort of like an really good overview on information such as melody, lyrics, chords, progressions, song types, etc.. It shows you all the pieces you need and more importantly WHY they sound the way they do or go together. It is for the person with beginner-intermediate music theory skill, or for any skill level guitar player. Information is well organized, easy to understand, and backed with examples from popular songs. Not songs like "Greensleeves" and "mary had a little lamb", but beatles, nirvana, oasis, madonna,etc.. Check out this guy's other books- I was very interested in the chord progression section and got his book on that subject. I think it is even better than this one.
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