Chuckk Hubbard schrieb:
On 8/14/06, David Powers cyborgk@gmail.com wrote:
I recommend "The Jazz Piano Book" by Mark Levine. Even though it's a piano
me too.
was Arnold Schoenberg's 'Theory of Harmony'.
I donŽt think classical harmony is of any interest for pop music. except maybe voicings and thoughts on polyphony. What maybe is interesting with Schoenbergs theory is his work on formal structure in the book "Stil und Gedanke"/"style and idea" talking about motives, melodies, time, repetition, formal ideas. (naa, I would not recommend that really...)
Maybe more effective would be to listen to artists you like to "copy" and analyse their chords and then have a "style" in your chord progressions system like "gershwin", "beatles", "bryan adams", "bjork" with some weighings of progressions, distributions of modes...
maybe I should give this a try myself.
m.