ARRANGING REHARMONIZATION TECHNIQUES by Various

by Randy Felts

(Berklee Methods). When you reharmonize a tune, you give the melody new color by changing its underlying harmonies. Whether you direct a band or choir, play piano or guitar, or write film scores, you will find simple and innovative techniques to update songs and develop exciting new arrangements by studying the hundreds of copyrighted examples throughout this book. Reharmonization techniques covered simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, and others. Includes examples and exercises on such tunes Black Orpheus * Blue in Green * The Girl from Ipanema * Isn't It Romantic? * Misty * Over the Rainbow * Stella by Starlight * and more.

Genres: Music

Paperback Bunko

First published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Give any song a harmonic makeover with the techniques in this book! Put a new melody on top of that and voila- you've got your own original composition (although that part isn't discussed here). I thought the Faulty Chord Symbols and the Piano Voicings chapters were a waste of space, but otherwise a very useful book.

[Stephen Lewis · Rating 3 out of 5]

The info is good but brief. There were many typos. There are many exercises at the end of each chapter to help you work through the concepts, because of that, I would recommend the paper version over the Kindle version.

[Michael Reid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book on reharmonization.

[Ma Fer · Rating 5 out of 5]

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