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    How to Write Chord Sequences: A Harmony Sourcebook for Songwriters
    How to Write Chord Sequences: A Harmony Sourcebook for Songwriters
    How to Write Chord Sequences: A Harmony Sourcebook for Songwriters
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    How to Write Chord Sequences: A Harmony Sourcebook for Songwriters

    By Rikky Rooksby

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    Originally published in 2003, the revised and updated third edition of The Songwriting Sourcebook is the third entry in Rikky Rooksby's bestselling How to Write Songs series. This easy-to-use book will help you write better songs by explaining the art of writing effective chord sequences. It shows:

    • How three and four chords can lay the foundation for a simple song, and how to move on to progressions using five and six chords

    • How to give your chord sequences additional color by adding chords that are not strictly in key, including blues chords

    • How to write chord sequences for songs in minor keys as well as major keys, and how to take progressions into new territories by changing key

    • How to fine-tune the color of your chords by understanding the emotional potential of sevenths, sixths and ninths

    All examples come with easy-to-read guitar chord boxes, and the accompanying tracks feature original recordings that illustrate key points made in the book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateDec 1, 2022
    ISBN9781493067886
    How to Write Chord Sequences: A Harmony Sourcebook for Songwriters
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    Rikky Rooksby

    Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/composer, and writer on popular music. He is the author of How to Write Songs on Guitar (2000, revised edition 2009), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), Riffs (2002, revised edition 2010), The Songwriting Sourcebook (2003, revised edition 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised edition 2016), Melody (2004), Songwriting Secrets: Bruce Springsteen (2005), How to Write Songs on Keyboards (2005), Lyrics (2006), Arranging Songs (2007), How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings (2010), and Songs and Solos (2014). He has also written fourteen Fastforward guitar tutors and arranged over three dozen chord songbooks, including The Complete Beatles. He has written entries on rock musicians for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and published interviews, reviews, and transcriptions in many UK music magazines. He is a member of the Society of Authors, Sibelius One, and the Vaughan Williams Society

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