Chord Master - How to Choose and Play the Right Guitar Chords: Updated Edition
by Rikky Rooksby
$24.99
sku: 49-137903
Book with online audio. A chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes, a large portion of the book explains how to use chords and attempts to answer questions guitarists often have about chord shapes. This revised edition emphasises the practical and is even more useful to beginners, with expanded exercises and more audio. The multimedia component has double the number of tracks and is 30 minutes longer. The notation of the chord progressions is partly redesigned, making it easier to read. More chord types have been added to Chord Master's Matrix (dictionary) section, with new material about balanced chords and about effective chord voicing. The section about chords from famous songs is expanded with more examples of unusual chords, including one of the most famous examples, the first chord of "A Hard Day's Night." 255 pp. More Details...
Other updates to this edition:
- Chord changing for beginners, with the help of 20 new audio tracks
- Chord voicings and how they can work for you
- A handy guide to the 40 most useful chord shapes
- Experimenting with chords in an altered tuning
- Usable groups of chords for beginners in relation to a variety of song styles
- Some audio examples have a backing track arranged to stress melodic and rhythmic elements so that when the reader puts the chords alongside, the effect is marked, sometimes allowing for re-harmonizing the same music with a different chord progression, or a chord progression played in more than one area of the guitar
- The notation of the chord progressions is partly redesigned, making it easier to read
- More chord types have been added to Chord Master's Matrix (dictionary) section, with new material about balanced chords (which remove ineffective or unnecessary doublings of notes) and about effective chord voicing