Comprehensive chord theory for guitar
By: by Douglas Baldwin
Publisher: Hal Leonard; Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781423496144
Subjects: Music theory; Guitar; Music; Chords (Music); Musical intervals and scales; Instruction and study
Description: "This book explores: The fundamentals of traditional chord construction; The theory and technique of movable chord shapes; A thorough examination of the "5" chord; How to add color notes ...; How to build and play extended chords"--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: Companion CD contains demonstrations of the chords discussed in the text.
Table of contents: title: A prelude in musicspeak and the Rosetta Stone for guitar diagrams. Some basic ideas, tools, and skills you should know ; Intervals ; Circle diagrams ; Tablature and chord diagrams ; The naming of chords; title: A beginners collection of chords in open position; title: First steps in chord theory and practice. Building chords based on scales ; Moving from chord to chord ; The dilemma of becoming a musician, rather than just a guitar player; title: Movable shapes, part one : the barre chord. What Is a movable chord shape? ; Why barre chords are useful ; An exercise to get you ready for barre chords ; Where do barre chords come from; title: Introducing the "5" chord. The origin of the power chord ; Playing power chords, part one ; Open "five" chords ; An introduction to inversions and "slash" chords through the "five" chord ; Using open 5ths and 4ths as harmonized melody notes ; Other intervals that can function as chords; title: Movable shapes, part two : playing triads. Introducing the "little self-contained chord shape" on three adjacent strings ; Harmonizing the major scale ; Harmonizing the harmonic minor scale ; Constructing tertiary triads with a chart ; Inversions of tertiary triads ; Traditional voice-leading of tertiary triads ; Open voicings ; A suspension of tertiary belief : a brief introduction to the curious sus2 and sus4 chords ; Another kind of chord construction : quintal and quartal chords; title: Seventh chords. Snowmen with four body parts ; Naming and dissecting seventh chords in the major tonality ; Naming and dissecting seventh chords in the harmonic minor tonality ; Open-position seventh chords ; Deriving seventh chords from basic movable triad shapes ; All possible closed-voicing seventh chords in root position ; Practical fingerings for seventh chords ; Seventh chords as slash chords ; As long as we're on the topic of slash chords ; Inversions, voicings, harmonized scales and etudes for seventh chords ; The strength and sizzle of the dominant seventh chord ; Modes : what they are and how to establish them; title: The "color" notes. Introducing 6, add2, add9, and add4 ; Adding the 6th to chords in the major tonality ; Adding the 6th to chords in the harmonic minor tonality ; Sixth chords in open position ; All possible closed-voicing sixth chords in root position ; A harmonized scale and two etudes for sixth chords ; Adding the 2nd or the 9th to chords in the major tonality ; Adding the 2nd or the 9th to chords in the harmonic minor tonality ; Add2 and Add9 chords in open position ; Common and uncommon Add2 and Add9 chords - practical fingerings ; Inversions, voicings, harmonized scales, and etudes for Add2 and Add9 chords ; Adding the 4th to chords in the major tonality ; Adding the 4th to chords in the harmonic minor tonality ; Add4 chords in open position ; Common and uncommon Add4 chords - practical fingerings ; Inversions, voicings, harmonized scales, and etude for Add4 and Add#4 chords; title: The big numbers : 9, 11, 13 and "alt" chords. Snowmen with five or more body parts ; Introducing the thirteenth chord ; Naming and dissecting ninth chords in the major tonality ; Naming and dissecting ninth chords in the harmonic minor tonality ; Open position ninth chords ; All possible closed-voicing ninth chords in root position ; A ninth chord cookbook : inversions ; Another ninth chord cookbook : baking altered dominant ninth chords from friendly ninth chords ; Two etudes for ninth chords ; The knotty problems of eleventh chords ; The theoretical limit of tertiary construction : the thirteenth chord ; Naming and playing thirteenth chords in the major tonality ; Naming and playing thirteenth chords in the harmonic minor tonality ; Adding the 9th to the most common thirteenth chords ; What is an "alt" chord? ; An etude for extended chords.