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1998 Song Writer's Market
Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards
How to Read Music
Mel Bay's Deluxe Encylopedia of Guitar Chords
Scales Over Chords "How to Improvise... And Never Play Bad Notes!"

Title:1998 Song Writer's Market
Description: This is a great book if you are trying to sell yourself! It contains over 2,000 places to market music. It has markets like record companies, producers, publishers, managers, advertising & audiovisual, classical groups, and theatre companies. It also contains guidelines for submitting to these different companies. Plus it contains some interviews and tips by music professionals to help get you going in the right direction. I highly recommend this one for anyone trying to break into the music biz!!

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Title:Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards
Description: This is a great book if you are guitar player and want to put a few chords from a keyboard on some MIDI tracks. It contains:

Scales in all major and minor keys
Fingering guidelines for playing each scale
Chord charts for the most commonly used chords including major, minor, augmented, diminished seventh and ninth chords in all positions
Illustrations of each chord showing where it is played on the keyboard
Chord and scale theory
Glossary of music terms.

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Title:How to Read Music
Description: This book gives the fundamentals of music notation. It contains a guide to musical symbols, a complete note directory, a musical directory, a few well known pieces of music to read, and a great glossary of terms. If you actually write the tablature out for your pieces, which can be benifical for copyright stuff, this is a handy little reference book to own.

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Title:Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords
Description: This is an absolute must for any guitar player!!! This is the bible of guitar chords. They really come in handy for recording sessions and tabbing stuff. It has every chord layed out in a quick reference with a bunch of alternate fingerings so you can pick the best chord for the situation.

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Title:Scales Over Chords "How to Improvise... And Never Play Bad Notes!"
Description: This is a good theory book. It explains the guitar neck and gives you a method for finding notes on the fretboard. It goes into scale theory pretty deep and comes with a cd that has jams on it and exercises for you to work with. It will really open up your playing!

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