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One reader writes: "Wow! It's amazing how much relevant information Mr. Josefs crammed into this little book. Extremely well organized and laid out! If you're looking for a book on songwriting, there is nothing out there that touches this. It's nice to finally see a music author relate things to the Pop and Rock music of today; instead of taking the same stale approach of basing the book on Jazz and Classical Music concepts. To me, the value of a book is the direct relationship it has to what practical information you can take from it and then apply. This book has changed the way I approach writing songs, especially when I'm harmonizing a melody line. The sections on Minor Key Harmonization, and Borrowing From Minor In a Major Key are worth the price of the book alone. I hope Mr. Josefs next book will be on "Modern Arranging Techniques". Hands down my favorite written book on any subject! "

Another reader writes: "I accidentally ran across this book in a music store. The title intrigued me so I picked it up and thumbed through it, 20 mins. later I bought it. I'm a self taught pianist and this book has opened up a whole new world of ideas to me. I'm on my third reading now and in every reading I seem to pick up something that I didn't before. You have to be committed to sitting down to read through the book and doing the exercises. I highly recommend this book to others. It is primarily theory but in a relatively short time it all made sense to me. Contrary to one of the other written reviews YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ MUSIC!! to understand this book. I don't read music at all and I found the book well written, clear and concise. In fact I want to learn to read music now so that I can analyze other songs out there and to expand my vocabulary even further. If only I could find a book on reading music written out like this one then I would be ecstatic. "

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