A great Resource: How Music Really Works by Wayne Chase

[Roc77]

I posted this as a response to Attila (here).
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 8&t=413104

I wanted to post it in its own thread as a resource for music folks,

This book: [How Music Really Works/b] by Wayne Chase has been a great resource for me. Chapters 1-6 are viewable online. Chapter 6 is all about chords and progressions.
http://www.howmusicreallyworks.com/Page ... ter_6.html

Roman Numeral System and the Nashville Number System
http://www.howmusicreallyworks.com/Page ... 6/6_4.html

The Harmonic Scale
http://www.howmusicreallyworks.com/Page ... html#6.7.5

Harmonic Scales "Chord Progression Chart" for All Keys.
http://www.howmusicreallyworks.com/PGS_ ... _Chart.htm

Chord progression Maps and How to make your own.
http://www.howmusicreallyworks.com/Page ... 6/6_8.html

I find the book a very enjoyable read, Cheers

[themixtape]

I have the original book (cost me like $45 I think). It is insane. I never thought it would come out at all, considering how long it was hyped. Some stuff is extremely confusing, but I've learned a ton from those 1100+ pages. It's the friggin' "Infinite Jest" of songwriting, no joke.

[BlackWinny]

For those who are of french expression and not good english readers we have in France two excellent books (and very famous!) equivalent to the genius classic "Chase".

These two books:

and


Click the images to have the informations on the french Amazon website.

Beware, the latter exists also in the Kindle format... but don't take it in the Kindle format. Due to a bad choice in the font used for the musical symbols in Kindle, it is perfectly readable in the epub format... but not in the Kindle format because any Kindle (and even the application Kindle for PC) can't use this font!

So... take them as paper or as ePub (of course in that case elsewhere, not on Amazon), but exceptionnaly not in the Kindle format.

These two books are the very first reference for the theory of music in France, and they are complementary, it is very good to have both because the Abromont (600 pages) treats all the classical music but also the more "XXth century" applications of the music theory... and the Danhauser (200 pages very dense) which is totally focused on classical music goes a bit in depth of the applications in the classical music with a great accuracy but don't treat at all the more "XXth century" applications of the music theory.