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Chords & Tuning for Fretted Instruments
Hundreds of chords and voicings for four guitar tunings, seven banjo tunings, three dobro and three fiddle tunings, plus ukelele and tenor guitar. An indispensable guide for the folk, bluegrass, pop, blues and rock musician.
74 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 1977
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October 24, 2020
There are a couple reference books I have that I just love. And this is one of them. It is just what it says -- if you have a guitar or banjo or mandolin and you want to know how to play a chord, or you want an idea for an alternate tuning, you just look it up in this thing.
I'm not a good guitarist, I'm not a bad guitarist. I'm the kind of guy who shows up to a friend's cookout with a guitar, but leaves it in the car unless someone else brought theirs, too. So I know all the basic chords, but what if I run into a song that has an, I dunno, E flat minor suspended seventh diminished ninth? I have no clue what that is, or what it's supposed to sound like, but I could be trying to learn a song that someone wrote out piano chords for, and want to maybe get an idea of how to play that. Or I could be playing a totally normal chord, but, for whatever reason, my fingers are just tripping over each other because it's hard to get from the previous chord to that chord to the next chord as fast as the song wants me to.
So I can look up that chord and see if there's another way to play it that I didn't think of.
For a not-good-not-bad guitarist like me, it's really useful.
I'm not a good guitarist, I'm not a bad guitarist. I'm the kind of guy who shows up to a friend's cookout with a guitar, but leaves it in the car unless someone else brought theirs, too. So I know all the basic chords, but what if I run into a song that has an, I dunno, E flat minor suspended seventh diminished ninth? I have no clue what that is, or what it's supposed to sound like, but I could be trying to learn a song that someone wrote out piano chords for, and want to maybe get an idea of how to play that. Or I could be playing a totally normal chord, but, for whatever reason, my fingers are just tripping over each other because it's hard to get from the previous chord to that chord to the next chord as fast as the song wants me to.
So I can look up that chord and see if there's another way to play it that I didn't think of.
For a not-good-not-bad guitarist like me, it's really useful.
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