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53 of 56 found the following review helpful:
 Exciting Piano Oct 25, 2006
By Ken Mckenzie
"Jazzman"
I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. Man am I excited and motivated because of this book. I can now play dozens and dozens of tunes and they sound good. I feel like the musical world is at my feet after learning chords. I've learned from this guy in a short period of time what would have taken years going to piano lessons. The book lessons make you understand and be able to apply them to the piano. I have a real good idea about what I'm doing now and have been shown the piano is played with the brain and that once you understand chord relationships, you are off and running musically - and all of a sudden I'm a heck lot better than I thought I could ever be - geeez, I wish something like this was available years ago. The sax had been a hobby most of my life so I could read the melody but had no idea what was going on with the chords. When I reitred I wanted to learn the piano and found there was no shortcut; until, I found this book. I took lessons for a while and had to see a teacher every week and learned maybe two things each time. Never did completely understand, and then drill, after drill after drill - this was going to take years and I didn't have the patience or motivation. The book changes all that and teaches you dozens of chords in a short period of time and you understand them and can use them immediately and the author makes it fun with a humorus real life practical approach. What a wonderful comprehensive tool this is for learning chords and chord progressions.
I can play tunes I never dreamed possible and jazz is fun, I am really stoked, thanks pianoman Shinn.
36 of 39 found the following review helpful:
Terry R. Carlisle..."Jazz Drummer" (Roseville, CA) Oct 25, 2006
By Terry R. Carlisle
Man... I've been playing in Jazz Combos for over fifty years, hearing all those tunes, (we call standards) Listening to all those bass lines of songs, keeping rhythm. But I never understood the reason, for all the changes, until I bought this book from Duane Shinn "Piano Chords & Progressions:"
Now I understand just how important a I, IV, V chord progression is!
It is used in playing Blues, all the time!!!
I've been playing those progressions all this time and did not realize how music was structured?
Duane Shinns' book makes it very easy to understand why music sounds the way it does and how you move from one key to another. Even though I don't read music while playing drums, I have been known as a musical drummer, because I listen to where the sidemen are going with a song and anticipate where changes are made. This book explains that!
As a mater of fact, since reading and using this book, I can now sit in on piano and play blues and a few songs. People think I can play piano too. This is a great book! Thanks Duane Shinn...
34 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 Piano Chords and Progressions Sep 14, 2007
By Elizabeth J. Bell
This is a wonderful piano chord music book with one exception, which I consider very important, it doesn't give you any music that goes with the chords. Just learning chords is boring! If it had some music to go with it, even simple songs, it would be more palatable!
Because of this I was very disappointed with the book and am looking for one that has music that goes with the chords.
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
A great book that makes learning chords fast, easy and fun Aug 03, 2007
By Vishy Kasar
When you have to learn large number of chords, there are 2 ways to go about it.
- Learn each without understanding the relationships between them. You can certainly do it but it takes longer and it is not fun.
- Learn the simple rules that relates these chords and you can learn whole groups of them. It is lot easier to remember the simple rules than remember notes for each chords.
This book breaks the vast number of piano chords in to well defined groups and explains the simple rules that allow student to move from one group to the other. The rules are explained very simply in lay man terms and not using musical jargon that some other books tend to do. Even with in a given chord group, the author suggests very clever ordering (i.e. Do chords with all white keys first, follow that by chords with white on the outside and black on the inside etc) that is very intuitive, easy to remember and fun.
The book assumes some basic music scale knowledge so it may not be for beginners. It was perfect for me and my 2 young sons who already knew major and minor scales and some chords. The book gave us a clear structure to proceed that was even better than a live instructor. It was so good to see the twinkle in the eyes and the Ahaa coming out of my 7 year old son when I was teaching him from this book. It was even better to see him make rapid progress in learning chords based on the simple rules.
The binding and paper quality of the book does not make justice to the excellent way the information is presented with in.
I have bought many books in the hopes of learning chords quickly. None of them came close to this book. Highly recommended.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Musical background needed Jan 21, 2007
By P. Diana
"Amateur pianist"
The book summarises all the chords in what the author calls "chordland". It is however, not a book for people who do not know anything about music as one needs to have an understanding of musical scales in order to have a grasp of how the chords come into place. So, overall, a good book for the intermediate pianist, but not advisable for a novice.
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