Guitar Chord Bible


Book Description

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide. This compact dictionary of over 500 popular chords in their most common voicings feature clare photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions. The spiral binding allows you to lay the book flat for easy reference while playing. Fingering diagrams for each chord are clearly indicated on a fretboard, and tips on technique are given together with relevant chord sequences. Whether your musical style favors rock, pop, blues, soul, jazz, funk, counry, or classical, this handy take-anywhere volume puts the techniques for making great guitar music at your fingertips, and sets you on the road to becoming a true chordmaster.




Guitar Chord Bible


Book Description

This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is complete with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played.




Guitar Chord Bible


Book Description

Keep over 500 chords at your fingertips with this complete, portable, and user-friendly chord reference for guitarists of every skill level. No matter what your musical style, Guitar Chord Bible is your handy take-anywhere guide to the chords you need for making great guitar music. Organized into keys and ascending chromatically from C to B, explore easy-to-follow visual instructions for creating over 500 chords (counting photo-illustrated chord variations on different parts of the fretboard to provide a greater choice of harmonic texture). Including chords across multiple genres, including rock, blues, soul, country, jazz, classical, and more, the book features: A compact format designed to fit in your bag Color-coded fingering diagrams for each chord clearly indicated on a fretboard Photographs showing the finger placements of each chord on a guitar A layflat binding that allows you to lay the book down for easy reference while playing Tips on techniques along with relevant chord sequences With over 360,000 copies sold worldwide, the photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions of Guitar Chord Bible will set you on the road to becoming a true chordmaster!




The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete


Book Description

The Jazz Guitar Chord Bible Complete solves one of the greatest problems in jazz...the knowledge and use of chords. It is a complete guide to three- and four-string guitar chords. Every application is covered including passing chords and altered chords, but only the most logical, practical and applicable chord voicings are presented.




The Guitar Player's Chord Bible


Book Description

Whether your musical style tends to rock, blues, soul, jazz, funk, or country, this handy, take-anywhere volume puts the techniques for making great guitar music at your fingertips, and sets you on the road to becoming a true Chordmeister. This compact dictionary of over 500 popular chords features clear photographs and easy to follow diagrams and instructions.




The Baritone Guitar Chord Bible


Book Description

The Baritone Guitar (Low B) Chord Bible, with its 1,728 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many jazz players. To accompany the 1,728 chords, a further 576 possible moveable chord configurations are included, together with a useful range of slash chords, reflecting the popularity of this type of chord in many of today's artist and compilation topline songbooks. This highly comprehensive guide provides the musician with no fewer than 68 different types of chord in all twelve keys, making it the definitive publication for the Baritone Guitar. Whether you play folk, rock, pop, jazz or any other type of popular music, The Baritone Guitar (Low B) Chord Bible makes the ideal reference source for all occasions. Standard Chords covered in The Baritone Guitar (Low B) Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C, Cm, C7, Cm7, C5, C6, Cm6, Cmaj7, Cdim, Cdim7, C-5, C+, Csus2, Csus4, C7sus4, Cm7-5, Cadd9, Cmadd9, C6add9, Cm6add9, C7-5, C7+5, C7-9, C7+9, Cm(maj7), Cmaj7-5, Cmaj7+5, C9, Cm9, Cmaj9, C11, C13. Advanced Chords covered in The Baritone Guitar (Low B) Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C4, Cadd11, Csus4add9, Cm-6, C7sus2, C7-5-9, C7-5+9, C7+5-9, C7+5+9, C7add11, C7add13, C7+11, Cm7-5-9, Cm7-9, Cm7add11, Cmaj7+11, C9sus4, C9-5, C9+5, C9+11, Cm9-5, Cm(maj9), Cmaj9-5, Cmaj9+5, Cmaj9+11, Cmaj9add6, C11-9, Cm11, Cmaj11, C13sus4, C13-5-9, C13-9, C13+9, C13+11, Cm13, Cmaj13. Major Slash Chords covered in The Baritone Guitar (Low B) Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C/C, C/Db, C/D, C/Eb, C/E, C/F, C/F#, C/G, C/Ab, C/A, C/Bb, C/B. Beside the many pages of chord boxes or windows, the book features useful sections on tuning, chord construction, fingerboard layout, FAQs, alternative chord naming, fingering, slash chords, harmonic intervals, chord window blanks for transcribing your own favorite chord sequences etc. The aim of this guide is to provide the musician with the flexibility only really offered to guitar and keyboard players in the past. Now, with the help of The The Baritone Guitar (Low B) Chord Bible, musicians will be able to pick up any songbook and instantly have access to even the most complex and advanced chords.




The Guitarist's Chord Book


Book Description

A reasonably complete book of chords for the guitar with pictures of the fingering.




The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible


Book Description

A comprehensive chord dictionary for the tenor guitar, featuring 2,880 Chords, slash chords, moveable chords, tuning diagrams, chord theory, instrument factfile, blank chord windows and general advice.




The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible


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This exhaustive study of chords and scales is a must-own for any improvising guitarist. Published in collaboration with one of America's leading guitar schools, it provides the practical information you need to use each scale in a solo. With each scale, you get an explanation of the scale and its uses, a fingering on one string, six-string fingerings in all keys in a cycle of 4ths, three-note per string fingerings, and a chord vamp to practice the scale over. Give your playing a unique edge with exotic scales from all over the world. This easy-to-use book even includes a section on how to practice scales. The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible should be part of every guitarists library.




Rhythm Guitar Chord System


Book Description

Commonly referred to as the rhythm guitarist's bible, this innovative book is a system of guitar chord formation which maximizes power voicing while minimizing left-hand movement! Originally written by Mel Bay in 1947, this landmark publication was reissued in its original typesetting in 1973 to become the definitive text on jazz chords in private teaching studios and university jazz guitar departments around the globe. Mr. Bay's practical, analytical approach to the fingerboard produced this comprehensive system for learning full-sounding orchestral jazz guitar chords.