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Title: Money Chords : A Songwriter's Sourcebook of Popular Chord Progressions by Richard Scott ISBN: 0-595-01039-3 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, A Comprehensive Chord Progression Dictionary
Comment: Money Chords is the book to turn to when the other Songwriting Books tell you to study the chord structures of the best songs. Money Chords is the first comprehensive popular chord progression dictionary that I have come across and it is sure to become an essential companion to a Rhyming Dictionary and Lyric Book in every songwriter's library.
Money Chords introduces the 80 most popular chord progressions (plus all common variations) and the 12 tools used to create them without resorting to confusing and complicated discussions of music theory.
The book includes thousands of examples which are arranged in a manner that allows you to identify progressions common to a specific time period and the evolution of various progression types. It also allows the reader to study and compare how the best songwriters and performers have used the same or similar progressions to create different hit songs.
Money Chords is the real deal and gets my Five Star rating.
Rating: 4
Summary: Create More Interesting Chord Progressions
Comment: Say you're working on a new song or arranging an old one that uses a Basic I-IV (E-A) progression and you want to see how the best songwriters have used and dressed up this progression, the "Money Chords" book is your place to find out. There are at least forty examples of chord embellishments including E-A6; E-Amaj7; E-A11; Emaj7-Amaj7; Emaj7-A13; etc. The book shows you variations on the most popular progressions including the Folk (I-V7); Rock (I-IV-V7); Rock Ballad (I-VIm-IV-V7); Standard (I-VIm-IIm-V7); Ragtime (I-VI7-II7-V7); Classic Rock (I-bVII-IV); Blues progressions as well as Ascending, Descending and Static (Pedal Point) progressions. This book should help you create more interesting chord progressions for your new songs but also breath new life into other songs as well. I rate "Money Chords" a solid Four Stars.
Rating: 1
Summary: Logic-Defying Presentation of Progressions. Disappointing.
Comment: Just got my copy. Wish I had taken a look at the book before I bought it. Sure, it's a hefty 450 pages but once you scan through the book you come away with the same thought you do as a guitarist thumbing through a book promising 20000 guitar chords (realizing that there are, at most, 20 different chord forms that are mechanically and unnecessarily incarnated in every key): What's the point?
Here, the author does a similar thing by presenting all of the progressions with respect to specific keys (E for _half_ of the book and then a retelling of a subset of those progressions in the other keys). What's the point? It would have been MUCH more useful -- and, frankly, obvious -- to present each chord progression in the key-independent numeric form (e.g., "I-ii-V-I"). The publisher would have killed 50% less trees going that route and would have produced a book with immediate and lasting value.
And if not purely that approach, the author could have at least accompanied each progression with the key-independent equivalent. That's a no-brainer. And given that each page is 80% white-space it's not like the publisher was scrambling for content space!
Had I known that I could have charged [for] a book for reading off and reprinting the exact verse and chorus chord progressions from a bunch of different songs (granted, hundreds) I would have gone to the library and done so myself.
I had very high hopes for this book but it falls way short of what a songwriter/composer REALLY needs--of what I need. I wanted a book that facilitates spontenaity and fuels the creative spark. That's what the book promised, but not what I received.
Despite the sheer volume, it's a lazy effort. The book lacks the level of exposition, analysis, and insights that 450 pages would seem to indicate. And, content aside, the book's design, presentation, typography, and organization are EXTREMELY poor (I'll go so far as to say stark, ugly, sophomoric, and unusable as well considering the powerful desktop publishing tools available to anybody with a computer; one would think by this book that Writers Club Press only has a single manual typerwriter at its disposal). Bottomline is these deficits successfully short-circuit the promised usefulness of this book. The book is a disappointing effort and I cannot recommend it to anyone.
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Title: Melody in Songwriting : Tools and Techniques for Writing Hit Songs by Jack Perricone ISBN: 063400638X Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chord Progressions For Songwriters : by Richard J. Scott ISBN: 0595263844 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 30 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course by Rikky Rooksby ISBN: 0879306114 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting by Jimmy Webb ISBN: 0786884886 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 22 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: 88 Songwriting Wrongs & How to Right Them: Concrete Ways to Improve Your Songwriting and Make Your Songs More Marketable by Pat Luboff, Pete Luboff ISBN: 0898795087 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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