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Wayne Chase is the author of How Music REALLY Works!, 2nd Ed.,
The Gold Standard Song List, The Gold Standard Music Test, The Gold Standard Lyric Test,
How Songwriting REALLY Works!,
Volumes 1 and 2 (forthcoming), Chase Charts, The Chord Progression
Chart, and many editions of the “Complete” series of reference charts
and books for musicians, including Roedy Black's
Complete Guitar Chord Poster and Roedy Black's
Complete Keyboard Chord Poster.
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Educated at the
University of Alberta in the arts (music and English literature) as well
as the sciences (experimental psychology, biological sciences, physics),
Chase spent half a dozen years as a researcher in several areas of health
before switching to the music industry in the 1980s. Since then, he has worked as
a record producer, session player, writer, and instructor in songwriting,
music production, the music business, and
recording arts.
Chase's acclaimed book, How Music REALLY Works!,
is the result of 25 years of deconstructing (“reverse-engineering”)
the best, most enduring songs of the world’s greatest songwriters. The
book makes accessible to all musicians, for the first time, specific
details of the musical and lyrical techniques
consistently used by the masters of popular music, and
how they differ from the techniques used by
"ordinary" songwriters and performers. Chase also is a leading
authority on the identification, measurement, and analysis
of emotional meaning in language and other media. He invented a related
technology (Connotative Intelligence), and holds five patents in the
field. His expertise in this area informs the lyrics section of How
Music REALLY Works!, 2nd Edition.
To contact Wayne Chase by email:
wchase@roedyblack.com. |
