The Guitarist's Chord Book: Over 900 Guitar Chord Diagrams with Photos

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Guitar strumming (right hand movement)– this lesson explains how right hand movement is connected to rhythm. We will look at the intervals relative to the root of each scale which will give the flavour and mood of each scale. Ionian Mode Sus chords (suspended chords)– sus chords sound awesome and are generally easy to play. This lesson is dedicated to suspended chords. You have to know all the notes on your guitar, you’ve got to know all the scales, you have to know all the ‘chords’ and make sure you do that stuff as much as possible”– Joe Satriani

The following are links to various lessons on guitar chords. Some are easy, some are a bit more challenging. Learning to play guitar well is a big task, but Chordbook.Com is about cutting through the jargon and presenting you with great well designed web apps to help you on your way. Have fun and don't get weighed down by where you want to be with your playing, just focus on moving forward and learning a step at a time. Guitar Video Lessons The book is not too big and not too small. Perfect to save on your desktop, notebook, IPad or Smart Phone to make it accessible from anywhere. Now you can memorize your chords anytime you want.

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Essential jazz chords– if you want to learn to play jazz songs, you should start with these eight chords. Building chords with triads– the first step to really understanding chords is to understand triads.

This is a major chord but with a minor 7th, giving the the scale a more "bluesy" sound. To be played over dominant 7th chords. This is a great scale to play over the dominant 7th chords of a blues progression to break out of the minor pentatonic and blues scales most beginning guitarists use. Aeolian mode Can be played over a minor chord. Note that it has a minor 2nd which is a semi tone away from the root giving a "Spanish" feeling to the scale. Lydian Mode The following are links to six lessons in a series dedicated to chords. They work well as a sequence of lessons, but you can also jump in to a specific topic. How bar chords (or barre chords) work– bar chords are an important part of learning to play chords. This lesson breaks them down and shows you how to use them. How to figure out the chords in a key– if you play guitar chords, you’ll probably know that certain chords seem to fit together well. Every key contains specific chords. This lesson goes through how to figure out the chords in each key.Drop 2 triads– in this lesson, we use the drop 2 chord system to figure out 42 versions of one chord. This is a major scale. The raised 4th degree gives the scale a more "modern sound" when soloing over a major chord! MixolydianMode There are seven notes in a major scale yielding seven different modes. These modes can be used to solo over given chord changes. The article on harmonising the major scale described the chord types derived from the major scale. When talking about modes we are using the accompanying scales for each chord type. So using the C major scale.. C Major Scale