Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards [Paperback]

Hal Leonard Corp. (Creator)

Book Description

Series: Instant | Publication Date: September 1, 1990

Key signatures and chord symbols are doors to facility at the keyboard - doors too often locked by insufficient understanding. This guide unlocks them with clear, simple explanations. Features: major and minor scales * guidelines for scale fingering * chord charts which include major, minor, augmented, seventh, ninth, eleventh, major seventh, major nonth, minor seventh, sixth, minor sixth and diminished chords in all positions * formulas and symbols for altered chords - a simplified forming complex chords * A glossary of music terms * The easy-to-read text, concise definitions, and illustrations provide an invaluable reference guide for your musical pursuits.

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Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time. We are proud to publish titles of interest to all musicians as well as music lovers, from songbooks and instructional titles to artist biographies and instrument price guides to books about the music industry and all the performing arts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (September 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793500087
• ISBN-13: 978-0793500086
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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77 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Simple But Excellent Guide, April 13, 2000

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This review is from: Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards (Paperback)

Excellent book for beginners through intermediate hobbyist. Unlike Macfarren and other Scale Manuals with 100+ pages of daunting scale exercises, this book graphically and clearly explains Circle of Keys and chord construction. Great little book to keep by piano and use as guide to scale warmup at beginning of practice!

67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, April 15, 2002

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Jedai (Dissatisfied Country) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards (Paperback)

Don't be fooled by the cover. This book should be given free with every keyboard. It has all the scales in easy format and the common chords. If you sit down for 3 hours a day for one month you can play almost any song from a fake book. Beware though, it has only major and minor scales. Don't expect to find Greek and Spanish scales. But for the price its great and compact too.

64 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It'll Do, August 13, 2003

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David Bradley "David Bradley" (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards (Paperback)

This book has a thorough listing of piano chords presented in a manner that makes it easy enough to reproduce them on your own keyboard.

The problem is the physical layout of the book: all the C# chords are on one page, for example; the F# on another, the A on another, the Bm on another, etc etc etc.

For a beginner to use the book to help them learn a simple song, they have to either flip pages mid-tune, make photocopies to lay side by side, or memorize the different chords before playing. That's fine in the long term, but I know my kids would have more fun learning if they could get to the piano before the studying gets too dull.

Still, a good tool.