Countless musical examples and a running text guide the reader through using chords and changes to create musical arrangements for folk, rock, pop and jazz. Includes information on blues and modal harmony changes, how melody makes harmony, harmonizing a minor melody, and much more.
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Excellent beginner to expert theory book,
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This review is from: Making changes: A practical guide to vernacular harmony (Hardcover)
This book takes you from beginning scales through chords, progressing to chord charts. The text is well written and thought out. Numerous examples of contemporary songs are used to underscore the points made. This book is very rare and much sought after
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Almost indispensable, and out of print,
This review is from: Making Changes: A Practical Guide to Vernacular Harmony (Paperback)
"Making Changes" is a vast compilation of harmonic sequences illustrated by examples of progressively complex and modern harmonization of simple melodies. For me, it is a life-time manual and a precious resource.Peter Morgan Lanark Ontario
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This review is from: Making Changes: A Practical Guide to Vernacular Harmony (Paperback)
This book is exactly what it says it is, a practical guide to vernacular harmony. If you play music written after 1850, you need this book. The arrangements of some of the song examples are worth the price of the book. But there is a lot of good information here. If you are studying music theory and are frustrated by your textbook in your efforts to learn about the music you care about, get this book. It is terrific.
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Students and musicians who want to learn something about harmony can find learned treatises and classical texts that, at their best, help prepare them for a gig in a provincial German town, circa 1760. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vernacular harmony, slide chords, secondary dominants, bass movement, modal harmony, complex chords, tonal harmony, dominant sevenths, ninth chords, diminished triad, more chords, dominant seventh chord, leading tone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House Carpenter, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Bessie Smith, Come All Ye Fair, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Pretty Polly, Stevie Wonder, Traditional Arranged New!
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Students and musicians who want to learn something about harmony can find learned treatises and classical texts that, at their best, help prepare them for a gig in a provincial German town, circa 1760. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vernacular harmony, slide chords, secondary dominants, bass movement, modal harmony, complex chords, tonal harmony, dominant sevenths, ninth chords, diminished triad, more chords, dominant seventh chord, leading tone Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
House Carpenter, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Bessie Smith, Come All Ye Fair, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Pretty Polly, Stevie Wonder, Traditional Arranged New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- A Twist Of Fate by Lisa Jackson on page 62
- Higher Ground by Caryl Phillips on page 70
- Fountain of Sorrow (Inspector Christy Kennedy Mysteries) by Paul Charles on page 64
- Carole King by Paula Taylor on page 119
- What to Listen For in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis by Associate Prof. Ken Stephenson in Back Matter
- Harmony Theory: A Bibliography (Music Reference Collection) by James E. Perone on page 140
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