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 enlarge | Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 13829
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0879307498
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.4313
EAN: 9780879307493
ASIN: 0879307498
Publication Date: September 2003
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Awesome Tool January 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sparks my creative thoughts and brings me back to the love of writing music with passion.
Just what I was looking for December 23, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was looking for a book that wasn't for complete noobs, but not for the person who knows the innermost workings of music theory. The quality of the pages (book in general), perfect organization, easy to understand terminology, great content, and usefulness of this book make it perfect. I ordered 6 books on the subject for amazon, and unfortunately only 1 of them (this one) was great. I will be ordering the rest of this guy's books because this one really was amazing.
A Real Winner November 10, 2006
This is a great book to learn from. You can pick a chapter and start from there. It will help you with writers block, if you have it....
I would recommend this to my friends.
Excellent March 13, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent source of material to take your songs up a notch. The author provides clear examples. The book is extremely well organized.
CD is a gem! February 3, 2006
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
I didn't touch the cd until after I had read the book. My reasoning wasn't to save the best for last. I just didn't expect to hear anything useful since I would be playing the examples on my keyboard while reading through the topics. I was completely satisfied with what the book alone did for me. I'd been writing for a while and knew much of the information presented already, but what Rooksby did was organize my tool drawer. It's mainly a book on the use of chords as the basis for writing popular songs in any genre, from the most basic to the most colorful. He shows us the resource we have in these chords and how popular songs have used them and will continue to use them. By the end of the book you really feel like writing, because much of the mystery about the craft has been resolved.
Then you pop in the cd and listen to no less than "20" beautifully recorded pop tracks(sans vocals) written in various styles which apply the book's teachings. But you aren't just listening. You're following along with the cd section of the book, which shows every chord used and an accounting of every measure in every track recorded, along with comments on the most significant events.
I came away with a much greater appreciation of popular song and its potential.
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