Dick Hyman's Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know

By Dick Hyman,

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Songs include: Alone Together * Am I Blue? * Body and Soul * Do It Again * Get Happy * Lulu's Back in Town * Mack the Knife * Misty * Night and Day * Skylark * Soon * Sweet Georgia Brown * Time After Time * You Go to…

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1 author picked Dick Hyman's Professional Chord Changes and Substitutions for 100 Tunes Every Musician Should Know as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This songbook is an incredible window into the world of chord movement and voice leading. Mr. Hyman offers the original chord symbols from chord sheets (often lost to history), professional substitutions that are frequently played, and his own substitutions offering some fresh new harmonic options. Because each measure of music is teeming with chords and little movements, it makes you think precisely about chord extensions and what’s unnecessary in your voicings. 

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