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    Finding Chords to Match the Notes In Your Melody: A Manual for Songwriters and Musicians
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    Finding Chords to Match the Notes In Your Melody: A Manual for Songwriters and Musicians
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    Finding Chords to Match the Notes In Your Melody: A Manual for Songwriters and Musicians

    By Bruce Osborn

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    An easy-to-use guide to finding just the right chords to use with any melody. If you have ever composed a melody and then been at a loss as to which basic chords to play along with it . . . if you have ever wondered how to experiment with more complex chord substitutions . . . if you have ever wondered how the “experts” go about choosing which chords to use with their melodies . . . then this book is for you. Through the use of clear, color-coded charts and detailed step-by-step instructions, this book will show you at a glance exactly which chords are the best choices for use over any melody note in any key. In addition, the author includes extended—and often hilarious!—essays describing how he came to develop the charts included in this book, and how his interest in chords lead him to explore the chords and melody in a well-known jazz song. Finally, there are charts—one for each of the 12 notes in a chromatic scale—listing the notes contained in 26 of the most common chords.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateApr 24, 2014
    ISBN9781483409559
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    Finding Chords to Match the Notes In Your Melody: A Manual for Songwriters and Musicians
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    Bruce Osborn

    Bruce Osborn has served as staff pastor for the Glacial Community YMCA in southeast Wisconsin since August 2006. He formerly served two separate churches in associate pastoral roles in Alabama and Tennessee. He was ordained into full-time Christian ministry in 1998, upon graduation from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a master of divinity in pastoral studies. He is also a graduate of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He lives with Kim, his wife of more than thirty-one years in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He can be reached at bosborn@glcymca.org.

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      Very interesting approach.