Your Training Notebook on Pop Music Special Chord Progressions: A must-owned tool book for Composition / Learning / Harmony / Arrangement (Suitable for guitar and more musical instruments) - Softcover

Su, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9868990351 ISBN 13: 9789868990357

Publisher: Scott's Time Capsule Music, 2016

Synopsis

** Listen to the uniqueness -> Learn the harmony techniques -> Make your song become unique too !! **

1. Carefully Selected Songs, Understand The Uniqueness
Well-chosen 7 classic domestic and international pop music songs with unique chord progressions
 
2. Viewing From Pop Music Aspects, Easy To Learn And Use 
Complete sum-ups of harmony techniques in pop music applications and convenient to look-up upon compositions and arrangements.
 
3. Demonstrate Operation Flows, Clear At A Glance 
Step by step demonstrations from easy to complicated chord rearrangements, hands-on learning on harmony techniques.
 
This book uses classic pop songs domestically and internationally with more characteristics in chord progressions as references, and show you how the harmony techniques were well-used in these songs, and make them become unique. 
 
Readers who love music performing, song arranging as well as composing are able to expand depths and longitudes in music on themselves through the understanding of chord progressions. 
 
In the last chapter of this book also teaches you how these harmony techniques can be used in songs step by step, and make you can apply them in your songs or rearrangements easily.
 
 
*** Table of Content ***
 
Author
Introduction
 
Chapter of Direct Trainings
   Example I Beautiful
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
   Example II Somewhere Over the Rainbow
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
   Example III She
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
   Example IV I Just Can't Stop Loving You
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
   Example V Say Yes
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
   Example VI Evergreen
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
   Example VII Everthing
      Form Progression
      Chord Progression
      Analysis
 
Chapter of Analysis & Integration
   Section 1. Diatonic Triad
   Section 2. Inversion Chord
   Section 3. Mixed Chord
   Section 4. Modal Interchange
   Section 5. Sustained Note
   Section 6. 2-5-1 Progression
   Section 7. Diminished Seventh Chord
   Section 8. Tritone Substituion
   Section 9. Extended & Altered Dominant Chord
   Section 10. Modulation
      Methods of Key Modulation
   Section 11. Alteration of Chromatic Approach
      1. Within the Same Chord
      2. Different Chord Progression
   Section 12. Harmony Disposition
 
Chapter of Applications and Hands-on
   Example I
      Happy Time
         Original chord progression
         Chord rearrangement
   Example II
      Jingle Bell
         Original chord progression
         Chord rearrangement
 
Epilogue
Copyright            

About this title

About the Author

Scott Su, an independent music composer, producer and guitarist. He is also a richly-experienced studio musician, skillful in music arrangements and releases mainly guitar performance albums. His self-composed albums include "Are You Still There ?", a guitar performance single and "No Flowers On Island". Scott also writes useful guitar method books which include "Fretboard Secret Handbook" , "Playing Guitar So Easy" and etc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scott's Time Capsule Music
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9868990351
• ISBN 13: 9789868990357
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112