How to Write Songs on Keyboards helps keyboard players find and develop interesting keyboard chords and chord sequences that they can use in their own songs.
Rather than trying to teach intricate pieces of music, the book breaks things down into a simple style, concentrating on basic chords and ideas that can be gradually elaborated to create more complex structures.
Songwriting issues are also analyzed, including key changes and writing songs in minor keys. The straightforward style of How to Write Songs on Keyboards will have musicians writing songs on a keyboard with ease — even if they never have before.
This book shows you:
How to play simple major and minor chords
How inversions can ease chord changes
How to arrange chords across both hands
How to write memorable chord sequences
How to create harmonies that are difficult or impossible on guitar
How keyboard songs differ from guitar songs
This book contains 12 different segments, appendix and a glossary of musical terms
256 pages w/90 track audio CD |
