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The Online Guitar Store - Reharmonization Techniques
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List Price: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Berklee Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780634015854
ISBN: 0634015850
Label: Berklee Press
Manufacturer: Berklee Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher: Berklee Press
Studio: Berklee Press
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When you reharmonize a tune, you give the melody new color by changing its underlying harmonies. Whether you direct a band or choir, play piano or guitar, or write film scores, you will find simple and innovative techniques to update songs and develop exciting new arrangements by studying the hundreds of copyrighted examples throughout this book. Reharmonization techniques covered include: simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, and others. Includes examples and exercises on such tunes as: Black Orpheus * Blue in Green * The Girl from Ipanema * Isn't It Romantic? * Misty * Over the Rainbow * Stella by Starlight * and more.
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Summary: It works!
Comment: I've only explored about 12 pages of the book and it's made a huge difference in my song writing and comping. The concept of simple substitution is clearly explained and easy to understand if you have a little knowledge of music theory. That alone makes the $20 purchase fee well worth the money.
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Summary: Open Wide
Comment: What an amazing book! This will open your eyes to a whole new world of harmonic possibilities. For intermediate to professor, this tome is THE BEST handbook of tips and ideas for altering any genre and is sure to inspire some fabulous music from all who use it.
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Summary: Pouco a acrescentar se você já sabe, pouco para entender se não.
Comment: Este livro tenta ser pragmático. O autor se enrola demais no começo - onde é fácil - e se aprofunda de menos do meio até o final - onde é matéria mais difÃcil para os alunos. Nem é a beleza do pragmático American Way e nem profundo como os alemães. Mas vale à pena entender a visão didática da Berklee.
This book tries to be pragmatic. The author is in the wind too early - which is easy - and that deepens from less than half by the end - where it matters more difficult for students. Neither is the beauty of the pragmatic American Way and not deep as the Germans. But is a good way to understanding the vision of didactic Berklee.
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Summary: Good refresher
Comment: This book is a pretty useful refresher of things you probably already know. I imagine it coming in handy when a composer is in a bad rut (to the point of having a difficult time reinventing the theme with any harmonic difference). Still, a good read and is likely to force some (very restricted) composers out of "the box".
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Summary: This Book Has Really Grown On Me
Comment: It's too easy to buy music books that are too simple or too advanced, or just badly written. This book seemed too basic to me at first. Then, I worried because the explanation of "cadence" was not really standard. However, I plowed trough this book and found all kinds of useful techniques presented in methodical and understandable fashion.
This book is not for beginning musicians. It assumes a degree of knowledge and experience. It would not make sense to learn "reharmonizing" before you know basic harmony. The intended audience is people playing rock, jazz, pop and film music. Because of the use of chords, it is best suited to guitarists and keyboardists. It skews toward jazz standards, but for those wanting to dress up their blues arrangements or sound more sophisticated with their rock chord choices (think "Steely Dan"), there's plenty of material for you too.
The ultimate goal is to enable to reader to take melodies and add chords that are more interesting than the "obvious" choices. Those playing from fake books will benefit the most, especially if they plan out songs in advance. With practice and experience, one can use some of these techniques "on the fly" (e.g. tritone substitution). The techniques in this book also apply to composition, and could be used as blueprints to construct full piano accompaniments or even orchestrations.
I play both rock and standards, plus I write songs. I can use the techniques on my own compositions, plus I can polish my harmonies so that my standards do not all sound like the same song. If you want to take songs you already play and give them chords that make them sound more sophisticated, this book is not a bad place to start.
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