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 enlarge | Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 94873
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0879307668
Dewey Decimal Number: 787.87193
EAN: 9780879307660
ASIN: 0879307668
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
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 The best introduction to music theory I've ever read! July 24, 2005
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I found this book to contain an excellent explanation of music theory in a very effective way. I've bought several books on music theory in the past and most of them have been fairly long-winded and difficult to understand. Over the years I have picked up the basics (major and minor chords, scales, inversions etc.) but not much else. In the first 30-40 pages, this book clearly explains a lot of information on musical theory very clearly. In my opinion, this is worth the price of the book alone. I've never seen this information presented so concisely in any other book or website.
The rest of the book goes on to explain how different chord types tend to be used by certain genres and the last half of the book is dedicated to a listing of all the chord diagrams. I especially like how the chords are listed by their type (major, minor, 7th, etc.) rather than by their musical tone (A, B,C,D etc) as this makes the book a lot easier to navigate.
There is also a section of the book dedicated to illustrating the differences in the sounds of the different chord types that is aided by the accompanying CD. The music on the CD isn't really that good, but it does effectively demonstrate the variations in the sounds of the different chord types.
Compared to your standard chord dictionary, this book provides so much more information for only a few extra dollars. I'd definitely give it 5 Stars!
 Another Chord dictionary July 11, 2005
3 out of 14 found this review helpful
Well, if you're interested in learning how to play the subpar samples on the CD that comes with this book, then I suppose you'll get something out of it. But in the end, it's pretty much just an overpriced chord dictionary... Save your money.
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