Chord Progressions for Guitar: 101 Patterns for All Styles from Folk to Funk!

by Tom Kolb

(Musicians Institute Press). This "private lesson" with MI instructor Tom Kolb is an easy-to-use guide to the most essential chords, rhythms and strumming patterns for a huge variety of musical rock, blues, jazz, country, folk, R&B, funk, soul, Latin jazz, fusion, ska, reggae and gospel! Each musical example in the book is demonstrated on the accompanying audio tracks, backed by a full rhythm section. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Genres: Music

56 pages, Sheet music

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

Tom Kolb graduated from Musicians Institute in 1989 as an honors graduate as well as “Student of the Year.” A veteran of over 4,000 gigs, Tom Kolb has worked in nearly every musical situation imaginable, from tours to sessions to his own funk/rock band the Gurus.
He has been a featured artist and musical director for Star Licks Videos and a regular contributor and columnist for Guitar One magazine, as well as the writer of Classic Rock Workshop (MI Press/Hal Leonard). His specialties are rock improvisation, melodic soloing, and rhythm guitar.

Reviews

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was not quite what I expected. I was looking more for the theory of how chords sound in progressions, and what patterns they show up in in various genres of popular music. That was talked about for the given examples, but they were more tabbed out sound-alike versions of popular songs organized by genre. I didn't really learn anything about what chords sound good in which sequences any more than I would by playing through a variety of pop songs, but there was a good bit more information here about interesting chord voicings and strumming rhythms than I expected. I would still like to find a book that would walk me through ways to put chords together, since I didn't find it here, but I do at least feel like I learned something by working my way through this.