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Title: Not what I wanted
Review: Firstly, what anyone wants to do when they take on the study of chord melody, especially for jazz, is to better understand how to take a melody and the chords and (guess what?) create a chordal approach to the song. Autumn Leaves, Blue Bossa, name that tune. There are no known jazz standards in this book, so one is basically learning how to play a John Lawrence song, including melody and chords -- similar to playing a classical tune -- there's the music and tab, play it. I'm sure one can get some information from the book but the arrangements weren't familiar to me and not all that exciting -- I opened it, I own it but would have prefered to simply return it. This will go in the file with the books that aren't worth my time to study.
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