Chords and Progressions for Jazz and Popular Keyboard

Thank you who ever created this book. It has helped me teach my students the basics of music theory. I highly recommend this to all.If anyone knows of a better study book feel free to tag on

Great material!

systematic approach to chords and progressions .... easily understood

If you are learning how to incorporate a variety of chords into your piano playing, this book is extremely helpful.

Great!

The author introduces this book as intended for the amatuer keyboard player. He uses a non traditional approach to teach chords. Usually, you first learn a scale, and then you learn which notes of that scale form different chords. The new perspective is to use semi-tones or half notes to count up from the bottom note.For example, a major chord is usually described as the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of a major scale. This book would describe a major chord as 4-3, that is, starting from the base note count up 4 half notes to find the second tone of the chord and then count up 3 from there to find the 3rd tone of the chord.Using this approach you can follow his guide to create all kinds of chords, simple and strange jazz chords alike - all without knowing any scales.And if you do know your scales, but favor some more than others, you can use this approach to transpose chords into scales that are less familiar to you. What a great resource!This book makes chords easy. Get it!

This book notes at the beginning that it is intended for amateurs with no knowledge of theory, and is not intended to equip the user to play professionally. As long as readers/buyers keep this point in mind, they should be happy with their purchase. I already knew how to construct major, minor, diminished, augmented, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 13 chords built on thirds, so this book did not advance my knowledge very much. However it did contain some good pointers about where chord voicings can be used most effectively on the keyboard.If you need a working knowledge of basic-to-intermediate chord voicings on the keyboard, this book is not a bad place to start. If you want to develop the knowledge and skills to play jazz gigs, don't bother. Better starting points for that would be books like  Solo Jazz Piano: The Linear Approach  or  The Jazz Piano Book .

This book gives you what you need, succinctly--it might add a few more progressions and the reasons behind them but it gives you all the basic knowledge clearly.

Es un libro bastante bueno. Los diagramas son de mucha ayuda. Está enfocado en posiciones para los acordes haciendo especial énfasis en la mano izquierda. No se requiere de mucho conocimiento para utilizarlo. Es un buen libro, fácil y practico. Lo recomiendo al 100%. Estoy muy satisfecho con la compra.

I have a lot of difficulty with musical theory. I struggled to learn this stuff with a piano teacher. It was a lot easier with the book.

Not a bad selection of tunes, though there were a lot I have never heard of.

Very useful book with clear chord diagrams. Pretty comprehensive and well laid out. Would recommend for beginners or those who want to find new chords that work together

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