Guitar: Chords Made Simple: The Ultimate Guide to Quick & Easy Chord Construction

by Scott Harris

Never Memorize a Chord Again! Inside Chords Made Simple you'll learn... How to build chords...Major, Minor, Diminished, & Augmented chords...How to build and release tension with chords...How to choose the best chord voicing...How to invert chords...7th chords, Suspended chords, 6/9 chords, & Add chords...Power chords & slash chordsAnd MORE... Download this book FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Understand Chords Today! Look inside for a free download of my popular 80 Positions & Patterns PDF (No purchase necessary for the free download!) Use Amazon's "Look inside" the book feature for the download link. Words from the "I never considered myself to be a musician when I was growing up. In fact, I was thoroughly convinced I did not have what it takes to be able to play music. I took cello lessons and failed miserable. I took piano lessons without making much progress. I sort of learned to play the recorder in school, if you can call playing hot cross buns playing. What I’m getting at is that I was a terrible musician. I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t keep time, I couldn’t play an instrument, the list of things I couldn’t do with respect to music is long. I found this particularly frustrating because my father is an absolutely fantastic professional saxophone player. I figured somewhere in me there had to be an inherent talent for music. I was very wrong. What I realized as I grew older was that my father didn’t have an inherent musical talent either. What he did have was an unstoppable drive to succeed. It took me a few years to get over my false idea that I could never be a good musician. A few years earlier my father had bought me a guitar as a Christmas present. It was sitting in a dusty case in my room, neglected. I had recently met a man named Jacob, another amazing musician. Jacob’s talent was with string instruments, particularly the bass. I asked his advice about what I should learn first. He told me to learn music theory, so I went online and began to read. I read a lot and started to teach myself scales. I was still really terrible at the guitar, but I kept at it, and slowly I improved. I stress the word slowly. A couple weeks into this process I asked Jacob to teach me guitar, and he said he would. I quickly found out that Jacob–despite being a wonderful player–is a horrible teacher. Jacob cannot think like a beginner, he cannot break down the knowledge and present it in bite sized pieces that are easy to swallow and digest. I wrote this book with that in mind. During the process of teaching myself the guitar, I learned a lot about how to teach guitar. I applied what I learned to write my best-selling guitar Scott's Simple Guitar Lessons. I’m still learning today. Music is extremely complicated and eclectic. I know for a fact that I will never master music, but that was never my goal.

Genres: Music

102 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 2, 2015

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[john Calkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you learn all your material from songbooks you don't need a copy of "Chords Made Simple". Just follow the little graphs above the lyrics and you will be OK. But I bet you automatically avoid songs that have too many chords because you don't understand why they are all there. If you learn one song with different types of chords though, you will begin to understand what they do to the music. Becoming musically fluent might require a lot of study, but if you understand how the different chords are built you won't have to travel with a chord picture book to work through different keys and chord variations. All the exotic chords stem from the common major and minor chords and knowing what scale steps they add or subtract will let you play them on the fly. That's where "Chords Made Simple" comes in with the formula for each type of chord and a suggestion of how that chord might alter the mood of the music. Probably no one will read this book straight through and absorb it all but as a companion to your collection of songbooks, it will help you understand the chord types as you come across them so that you can build them on your own as you travel through the different keys.