Chord Town
Chord Town
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CHORD TOWN is a clever and practical introduction to making beautiful music using chords and patterns. Designed for both pianists and harpists, this flexible book helps you build the foundational skills needed to confidently explore lead sheets, play by ear, and create your own music.
Whether you're arranging your favorite songs, improvising, or composing, Chord Town equips you with essential tools to support a lifetime of creative music-making. Perfect for self-guided learning or studio use.
Chord Town offers the fundamentals to help you feel successful with chords and patterns at the harp or piano. Here's what you will learn:
- Common ways to move through the six basic chords in C Major
- Left hands patterns for creating beautiful accompaniments
- How to read lead sheets
- How to enhance a melody by adding harmony notes
- How to choose your own chords for a melody
- How to add introductions, endings and interludes
- Learn cadence templates
- Use triads and inversions for "smooth move" chords in the right hand
- Use non-chord tones to dress up a melody
- Using lyrics for rhythmic inspiration
- How to expand a lead sheet with variations
Learn all of these valuable skills using familiar tunes like "Red River Valley", "Happy Birthday", "Lavender Blue", "Early One Morning", "Shenandoah", "Morning Has Broken", "The New World Symphony Theme", "Brahms' Lullaby" and "Waltzing Matilda".
Pages: 29 pages of music
Format: PDF for immediate download
Key: C Major
Level: Early Intermediate Harp or Piano
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This is a great resource for anyone who wants to be able to play by ear, accompany themselves (or others) singing, read from a lead sheet, or write your own harp or piano arrangements. This concise and immediately useful book simplifies and helps you internalize the concepts of chord building, chord relationships, chord progressions, inversions, classic left hand accompaniment patterns and hearing the chords underneath the melodies of songs. Anne is a true teacher - she introduces a concept and then lets you play with the idea and find out for yourself how and why it works. I highly recommend this book for students and teachers!
Thank-you so much for the thoughtful review, Susan. Much appreciated! - Anne
I love this booklet! I am an adult returning to the piano and this book has made so much “click” for me and has just opened up a whole new world in piano playing. It is very well thought out and put together. It is very easy to learn from and the concept of a book just on chords is sooooo helpful, and like I said, opens up a whole new world, full steam ahead! Thank you Anne!
Yes, learning to play with chord patterns open up a whole new world! I'm so glad you are enjoying Chord Town. Best wishes, Anne