Product Description

This long awaited volume is the most thoroughly exhaustive compendium of chord progressions ever published. Literally filled with hundreds of exercises and thousands of diagrams accompanied by Kadmon's unique presentation, ths book completely examines the craft and universe of progressions.

Improvisation and compositional technique are explained and interwoven to create a virtual encyclopedia of melodic and chordal possibilities, styles, dimensions and potentials.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #281209 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 287 pages

Customer Reviews

exhaustive is an understatement
I really only got a lot of good from the pages about theory. There's so much in this book it is hard to call it truly "useful" but I guess if you are hard pressed to find a random chord progression you can always flip the pages of this hefty tome.

A little bit confused...
This is a great addition to the family of Guitar Grimoire books, however, it doesn't really live up to it's name. I have every other guitar grimoire book, and this one seems to be my LEAST favorite. I'll explain.

The book (or at least, the bulk of the text) it about chord progressions. At first this may seem helpful and useful, but at the same time, it presents a very unoriginal message; because of Kadmon's extensive nature, he depicts nearly every progression used in popular music these days, which may lead some people to SETTLE for those simple 4 - bar progressions. I'm surprised it was not fueled on creativity and ingenuity, and more on structure and "sounding good."

The book has little about "Improvisation", or at least, it was not what I was expecting. It has a section about "window soloing" and a good section on music theory, which is a great addition to this book. However, I find that I like this book a little more after owning the Chord Encyclopedia and the Chords / Voicings book. It's as if this is the last one you should buy out of the series; it's like piecing the things together. I give it 3 stars for the fact that it doesn't really need to be this big and long for what's inside. I'd say it's useful for reference, but for creativity, it's basically a manual for cliche progressions, and if everyone in the world only used these progressions, all music would eventually sound the same.

Analysis: Good book for the brain, not so good for originality's sake.

-Dr. Kenneth

For all musicians
The greatest tool to make all you're musical ideas come to life. If you don't have it, then get it. !!A MUST HAVE!!