Gig Bag Book Of Picture Chords For All Guitarists In Color (Gig Bag Books)

This is a good book for beginner to intermediate and maybe even for some Advanced players. It's spiral balance with lies flat also they are photographs of fingers on the fretboard as well as diagrams of the cord also there are variations for each cord. It's a good resource for those learning to play are for making sure that you have a cord done exactly right!

I bought this for my nephew who just got his first guitar. I was so happy that they are still making these books because I had this EXACT one when I first started playing almost 20 years ago! I still use it to this day. Any and every chord and all the different variations of them can be found in this book. I've kept up with my playing all this time and I still find this book extremely helpful when writing music. I HIGHLY recommend for beginners and even for intermediate players.

This will definitely increase your vocabulary and open up the ability to recognize triad voicings within the chords you learn.

Had to replace my first one that got wet. The new one is same quality and informative.

This book is a great reference, and the photos of the hand positions are very helpful. That is the reason that I purchased this book. Unfortunately, one of the pages was crumpled and does not lay flat. It was too much trouble to send back for an exchange so I just kept it.

This is an amazing reference for beginners and novices alike. The pages are clear and pictures give you a clear guide to each guitar chord. It spans every chord including bar chords which a easier to understand with the use of this guide. A must have guide for all guitarists!

Been searching for this book for a quite a few years now. Owned one in the past that came up missing. I have been looking for a copy every since. Thanks Amazon!

Simple reading for beginners

Its really a gig bag series of Guitar Chords book for Guitarisrs ......Total 256 pages.. Each Chords diagram & Picture are given ...Notes are aslo ... Included. At the diagram.

When learning the guitar most “guitar tutor” books teach out “Kiddy Chords” – most of which are played on the bottom three frets and sound “muddy” due to the over-bass “voicing” of the chords – and many of the chords are of no use whatsoever if you wish to seriously get to grips with the guitar much beyond strumming folk tunes.Whilst “Kiddy Chords” are easy to learn, they seriously hamper your playing so the trick is to throw out the “Kiddy Chords” and learn “proper” chord voicings – you will be so glad that you took the trouble to do so.So if you really wish to get out of the “rut” of boring “four-chord” songs, and broaden the scope of your guitar playing then get yourself a copy of “The Gig Bag Book of Guitar Picture Chords” (one of the brilliant “Gig Bag” series of books). Here you will find 1,100 chords with great “voicings” that instantly make you “sound” like a pro as well as close up photos showing you the "best" way of fingering the chords.And if you want to hear how these “voicings” sound then go on YouTube and seek out Tracy Kim’s “teach-in” where you will learn to play Django Reinhardt’s “Nuages” (clouds).But why stop there!The “Imp guitar card” is a BRILLIANT '"credit card" sized aid to speed up mastering the guitar like a pro.What the FRONT (heads) side of Imp guitar card does for you is show you all of the notes on the fretboard - but with the sharp and flat notes removed so that you can quickly see and get to grips with the repeating note patterns.This enables you to swiftly see where to put your fingers to construct ANY scale and ANY chord and “arrange” the structure of the chord in ANY “voicing” (called “arranging”) – and not be entrapped in “prescriptive” chord sequences that are about as much use as a chocolate teapot.You will instantly see that the notes B and C on one string are adjacent to the E-F notes on the next highest string. For example, the notes on the low E string at the 7th and 8th frets are B-C, and the notes on the A string at the 7th and 8th frets are E-F.These four notes form a distinctive “box” pattern, which is repeated in different places all over the fretboard and once you know the position of these four “box” notes, you can quickly work out the position of the other three notes in the scale. Use the Imp guitar card to seek them out and learn their positions.ASIDE: The exception to this is on the G to B string “progression”. Because of the way the guitar is “tuned”, the E-F notes are shifted one fret higher than the B-C notes on the G string – which creates a “diamond” shaped “box”.But it gets even betterOn the “tails” side of the Imp guitar card we have the main chords for every “scale note” (called scale tone triads) in EVERY music key – how good is THAT!What this means is that you not only have the CORRECT chord for every “note” of ANY song in ANY particular key, you also have the ability to INSTANTLY TRANSPOSE to any OTHER key to suit the “voices” of the accompanying singers and instruments simply by “looking up” the chords on the chart in their relative “positions” – and not be trapped in “prescriptive” chord sequences that never sound quite “right” when you play them.ASIDE: Transposition is essentially playing the same chord “progression” (e.g. the sequence “I-IV-I-IV-I-V-IV-I” is a 12-bar blues “progression”) but in a different “key” (pitch) – which will have a different “sound” and “feel” because of the harmonic structures.Seven “pleasing” chords are shown for each “note” of each “key”. These seven chords are built on the seven notes of the major scale – also called the “tonic sol fah” (doh ray me) scale.The chords given are constructed using the “Scale Tone Triads” of that key – that is to say - for any given note the “scale tone chords” are formed by taking each note in turn as the “root” note, then adding the note two places up on the Major scale – and then repeating the formula on “that” note to obtain the “triad” (3 note chord).To illustrate - in the key of C, the seven notes of the major scale are C-D-E-F-G-A-B. The scale tone chords are formed by taking each note in turn as the “root” note then adding the note two places up on the Major scale - so - the first scale tone chord has C note as its “root” - and two places up adds an E note. Two places up from E adds a G note. This is the “C Major” “triad” chord.The second scale tone chord has D as its “root note” and two places up adds F, Two places up from F adds A. This is a D minor “triad” chord.The third scale tone chord has E as its “root note” and two places up adds G, Two places up from G adds B. This is the “E minor” triad (this also creates a “C major seventh” – which is a nice “substitute” for Em) – and so on.For every key, three major chords, three minor chords and one diminished chord are given - so for the key of C, the chord names shown along the top line of the table are: C – Dm – Em – F – G – Am – B° Where C, F and G are Major chords. D, E and A are minor chords, and B° is a diminished chord.The chord built on the seventh note of the major scale is a bit of an oddball. This is a “diminished” chord, referred to here as VII°. In the key of C, this is B° (or Bdim).The diminished chord is an “extended” chord that adds extra notes to the basic triad to form an “exotic” chord. Exotic chords add the seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth notes of the scale to the basic triads. Try playing chords such as “B flat minor add 9” (Bbm add9), or “D minor seven flat 5” (Dm7 b5) and hear your “musicality” open up.The “exotics” add “drama” and “colour” to the music but they are not popular because having ”trained” the fingers to perform the “Kiddy Chords” such chords are then tricky to play by the average person – even though they are just as “easy” to play – and sound fabulous.Armed with the book AND the Imp guitar card, your playing ability will truly soar!Happy performing

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A huge book of chords, well organised. Fits into the gig bag and feels durable. Would recommend.

Want all the chords at your fingertips, then this is the book to buy.This is my second, I lost the first one.