Play Rock Keyboards

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Summary: A Very Nice Book for Beginners!
Review: A previous reviewer said that he learnt to play his DX7 from this book alone-like him I learnt to play MY DX7 ONLY FROM THIS BOOK ALONE! When I bought my keyboard, I had NEVER played anything before and I was completely musically illiterate. Now I have almost a 100 instrumentals and songs under my belt and I owe a lot of that to this book. This book opened my eyes to many techniques; most importantly it taught me about scales.

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Summary: Absolute beginners may find this book useful
Review: Absolute beginners may find this book useful, but eventually beginners may want to learn music in reasonable depth and apply themselves to a traditional method book. On the other hand, it is true that in many respects rock music is different from traditional forms of music. A very good book that addresses itself to some of these differences is PENTATONIC SCALES FOR THE JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by Jeff Burns.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I have played in various bands for 10 years as a drummer, and the guitar players could never explain to me what constituted the "key" of a song or how scales and chords related to each other! So much for all their collective music lessons(many). This book explains it all in quick and understandable terms. You will know what to play with what key and also the variations that are appropriate with each key/scales. Forget all the "learn how to play this song" books!