Product Description

Learn piano chords galore -- how they are formed and what to do with them. Learn to link chords together into chord progressions. Illustrations of each chord on a piano keyboard make it easy to understand and use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21501 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-31
• Released on: 2006-07-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

About the Author
Duane Shinn is the owner of PlayPiano.com which offers over 300 courses in piano playing, chords, and music theory. He holds an advanced degree from Southern Oregon University.

Customer Reviews

Exciting Piano
I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. Man am I excited and motivated because of this book. I can now play dozens and dozens of tunes and they sound good. I feel like the musical world is at my feet after learning chords. I've learned from this guy in a short period of time what would have taken years going to piano lessons. The book lessons make you understand and be able to apply them to the piano. I have a real good idea about what I'm doing now and have been shown the piano is played with the brain and that once you understand chord relationships, you are off and running musically - and all of a sudden I'm a heck lot better than I thought I could ever be - geeez, I wish something like this was available years ago. The sax had been a hobby most of my life so I could read the melody but had no idea what was going on with the chords. When I reitred I wanted to learn the piano and found there was no shortcut; until, I found this book. I took lessons for a while and had to see a teacher every week and learned maybe two things each time. Never did completely understand, and then drill, after drill after drill - this was going to take years and I didn't have the patience or motivation. The book changes all that and teaches you dozens of chords in a short period of time and you understand them and can use them immediately and the author makes it fun with a humorus real life practical approach. What a wonderful comprehensive tool this is for learning chords and chord progressions.
I can play tunes I never dreamed possible and jazz is fun, I am really stoked, thanks pianoman Shinn.

Terry R. Carlisle..."Jazz Drummer" (Roseville, CA)
Man... I've been playing in Jazz Combos for over fifty years, hearing all those tunes, (we call standards) Listening to all those bass lines of songs, keeping rhythm. But I never understood the reason, for all the changes, until I bought this book from Duane Shinn "Piano Chords & Progressions:"
Now I understand just how important a I, IV, V chord progression is!
It is used in playing Blues, all the time!!!
I've been playing those progressions all this time and did not realize how music was structured?
Duane Shinns' book makes it very easy to understand why music sounds the way it does and how you move from one key to another. Even though I don't read music while playing drums, I have been known as a musical drummer, because I listen to where the sidemen are going with a song and anticipate where changes are made. This book explains that!
As a mater of fact, since reading and using this book, I can now sit in on piano and play blues and a few songs. People think I can play piano too. This is a great book! Thanks Duane Shinn...

Chording technique that makes sense!
I've been playing the piano for over 30 years and never could master chording. Since using this book, it makes sense. Duane has the ability to make learning new things palatable and fun! I had never made the connection that playing with chords and not just notes on a page required rational patterns of thought. I now get excited about playing without music in front of me. What a huge world of endless possibilites has opened to me. Thank you, thank you Mr. Shinn for providing those of us with mental blocks renewed hope in playing ad lib!