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Learn Piano and Organ Chords in One Minute! The Complete Chord Guide for All Keyboards

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The great thing about this book is that it does what it says it will do. It rendered my chord chart book useless, instantly. There's no confusing notes on the staff and all that. It had me knowing all sorts of chords in a minutes reading. It's a great book for people who don't have the time to learn to read music but want to have fun playing the same chords as any other musician. It's written with humor and a great deal of enthusiasm for the subject. The bottom line is that I went from knowing nothing about music to feeling empowered and able to shock my smug musician friends with a sudden grasp of their secret world which with this book was simple. I even started putting my poems to music. After one reading I was able to remember how to play all the chords without the book. If there is genius in simplicity than this book takes the cake! I LOVED IT!

This is my third book on learning something about piano and the only one that taught me anything. And I learned quick.

I didn't want to use the one finger chord feature on my keyboard so i got this book and now I play real chords. I can play the melody with my right hand because I can easily read the top staff, but the bottom staff is to hard. This book has given me a new hobby. After reading this book I remembered how to play all the chords without having to carry around my chord chart book like I used too.

The reviewer below claims to read a lot. If he did he might of read the title of this book before he supposedly bought it and then condemmed it for doing what it never said it would do! The reviewer is obviously confused. This book cost 22 bucks. No "course" or teacher can teach you how to do what this book teaches because they teach "reading." This book takes anyone and shows them chords in a matter of minutes. He claims that if you can play by ear you wouldn't need this book, but he is sorely mistaken. Anyone can eventually pick out a melody on any song, however it's impossible to play and know your playing correctly, chords. In Nashville this book has become legend. It has helped countless songwriter's put music behind their lyrics. Nashville hits don't use "sight reading." They use "lead sheets" which list only chords. The kind taught in minutes in this book, not a 3 year piano course costing hundreds of dollars! This book is a bargain at 22 dollars. And the author, who is well known in music city, has guided many songwriter's to greater heights with his instant music knowledge books. Get it and shine! I did:)

It's easy to understand why this book has sold over a million copies worldwide. It is just incredible. In minutes it teaches you a full range of chords and turns you into an instant musician. This one is Nobel Prize material!! Get it, it's the best there is.

I am an beginner in music and I was happy with this book for the following reasons. It has no lines and staffs or chord charts that you have to follow in order for me to play chords. The book jumps right in and has no sidebars that get you off track so I was able to stay focused and learn one kind of a chord at a time, one chapter at a time. There was an exercise on finger positioning that was helpful because it enabled me to properly form chords. I was surprised to learn that many chords can be played with the same exact finger positioning. The book explained the three major finger positions used for practically all the chords. There is some information on which chords are used in various kinds of music and how to play melodies by ear. One chapter that even impressed some of my piano playing friends was the explanation of how to play the 9th, 11th and 13th chords which confuses even them. The simple explanation was explained like the other chords quickly and easy to remember. In closing this book was a fun because it starts on page one and you learn quickly which helped me stay with it and keep going. The results did the talking for me. I think it was a pretty good investment. I liked the fact that it had a binding that allowed me to keep it open on my piano and it laid flat. Also the type is large enough to read at the distance to my music stand. All in all it is designed pretty good.

This book has the unique distinction of being so easy to learn that I was wondering if I was doing it right, but I was. I can't remember chords by charts, I keep looking through those books for the right one, but with this one you don't need charts and it's easy to remember how to play them by memory. I never seen this method in all my other books. In short if you want an instant method this is it. I was happy to learn just major and minor chords and that I did in one minute. Pretty amazing stuff. All the other type chords are just as easy to remember as well with a simple one finger adjusment you play all the other chords as well.

This book is not out of print and never has been. I contacted the publisher at thebuzzed@yahoo and they sent it right out.

This book will teach you your chords with no problem. But it teaches you little else and playing any song only by changing chords and no real melody is not going to help much. The material in the book can be learned in about a week, and no sight-reading knowledge is necessary, but any decent music teacher or more complete course will teach you the same material just as easily. And without the knowledge to read music, you won't be able to play songs anyway, unless you can play by ear, in which case you wouldn't need this book either! But it does what it promises. If you just want to know your chords and nothing else, this book delivers.

This "book" ... has very little content for the price tag. The text has 14-point font
and at least 2-inch margins on all sides. It is bound with one of
those plastic "comb" bindings....

The content is simply an explanation of the theory of how
cords are constructed. The text is overly-wordy and extremely
redundant. [In my opinion] The syntax and grammar are sometimes suspect. For example,
the difference between "your" and
"you're." The same teachings could be gotten across in much
less space. There is a two-page table at the end of the book which
pretty much says it all. That table and a ten-page explanation would
pretty well cover the story.

[I feel] The pamphlet does contain some useful
content, but not enough to warrant the price tag. Many piano texts
contain this material and much more. Bottom line: this is a
cheaply-made book with thin content.