The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians | Music Theory Learning Tool for Guitar Piano and All Instruments | Visual Guide to Chord Progressions and Key Changes Paperback – Illustrated, December 1, 2000

This is the book that have if you want to solve the puzzle of music I would also suggest that you get a college Edition text on first-year music theory and that will make this book more relevant and using the lessons caught and this text should help you it's definitely a place to understand the important rules of music and apply them while practicing just play around with them put the rule in use when you're playing the piano or the guitar or whatever your instrument is and like a video game or any skill that you undertake the more that you do that the greater your understanding will become and the more skilled you'll become but it will take effort but this text of the Circle of will help you leap I had and writing the songs that you've been wanting to writeAnother idea that you might want to pursue which was beneficial to me was to actually take a class at the local University 38th and music theory the way that that can be helpful is I learn more by sight then I Do by reading text it's what it's called kinesthetic learning and just the discussions the testing the going over the rules drawing things examples on the Whiteboard that your professor will do when he or she are discussing the rules of music was very helpful to me it is a hard class I'm not talkin about Elementary music theory classes I'm talking about the first class that a music Major would take in college in the study of Music Theory and you will work for you grade but you could also take it and request it be not for a grade but you're doing it simply to learn music theory and the participation with the other students and with the professor and going through the readings and the test 4 a quarter or semester whichever the school decides is the best way a grading. Should take place I found very very helpful and it's something that will stick with you and if you don't use it a little bit of refresher in from the book which I would suggest you keep and not sell back to the bookstore and this book will get you right back in the saddle again should you have to detour away from music for a little while but this particular text is a pretty good place to start if you want to hit the beach running in music I apologize for this being a long evaluation of this book but I thought it was also a good opportunity to give a few ideas about how to become solid in understanding the Mysteries that are the rules of music and with that in mind the Beatles did not know how to read music studied very little music theory and became the most prolific and greatest band in history but I threw the ideas out there so that you can decide which is best for you you might think and if you want to pursue things like the Beatles this book will give you a little bit more than they had and help you write those number one hits and break into stardom a little bit quicker :-)

Excellent product! It's taking a while to learn the wheel, but this was an excellent buy. Also here's a software program you may be interested in:If you're sincere about playing the piano or guitar or guitars :-), no matter if you're amateur/novice or professional,this bit of software could be for you and enable you to eventually help you to play like a pro, the easier way!EZ KEYS by: ToontrackEZ Keys should help revolutionize the music business. Why? If you can tap out the melody of a song, you can essentiallywrite beautiful music. Indeed, it's just a matter of time until the major DAW's add this important feature to theirsoftware. AlthoughEZ seamlessly integrates and works well within all of the major programs and hardware.Don't just take my word for it, uh Forrest:-) Google it and see what you find. I can tell you now, it's gonna be good!EZ Keys as like having a gifted college music professor sitting beside you everyday as you write and compose your tunesdaily, while slowly but surely learning how to write and play. This college music professor is with you everyday whileyou play, correcting you and helping you to superstardom. or, maybe just stardom. Everyone doesn't want to be asuperstar. The beauty of it all is that you don't have to go online to do all this. Learning this way bends the learningcurve to shorten the time it takes to become professionally proficient at the keyboard. I love this type of on the jobtraining. Hours go by so quickly...........Lot's of times I start writing and toying around with this program, look up at the clock and two hours have gone by.What seemed like thirty minutes was actually two hours. I love this program. All you have to do is write or play whateveryou can mainly create the melody with your right hand, then compile it, then EZ automatically creates the left handchords for you. If you want to you can also change those first few notes you've chicken pecked out (that's how I do iteveryday) and alter them to triad 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths,... on up to 13ths..... and more. Realistically, rarely do youhave to go over 7ths.After that Keys pops up a circle of 4ths and 5ths and let's to toy around with it to see and hear what the neighboringchords look and sound like, then you write some more then compile again, then repeat, then after doing this a dozen orso times, you've got a complete song that sounds way above your current level of play. These compositions actually makesus sound like we really can play the piano:-) And the best thing, it really does sounds good! It doesn't sound amateurishor hokey like those songs we played out of the music books with the finger numbers over and under the notes, telling uswhich fingers to use when playing a song. Trust me! It don't get no easier kid:-)You can play a shoestring, if you're sincere.---John Coltrane---