Publisher's Synopsis
Chord symbols play important roles in popular, folk, and jazz music. A chord symbol is a letter and/or accidental which indicates a root pitch on which a chord is to be built and other symbols that indicate the chord quality. Most contemporary sheet music, lead sheets, and fake books contain melodies with chord symbols written above them. Many folk songs are written with words only and chord symbols above the words. Musicians use the chord symbols to improvise accompaniments to the given melody.
If you want to improve your piano skill, there is no more suitable place than this book. This book will give you detail on LRPCN, a way of notating piano chords that transforms "bare-bones" chord sheets, showing exactly what--and where--to play with your right and left hand. It does for pianists what "chord boxes" have done for guitarists. What is more, LRPCN will help you: by:
-showing the importance of inversions in creating the characteristic sounds of a song
-revealing how simple triads can be combined to create more sophisticated sounds
-helping piano players to better see melody lines in a chord context
