For the guitarist, it all begins here. This is where you’ll learn to finger the most common simple chords and to switch back and forth between them in a timely manner. Along the way, you'll see which chords group together in different keys according to the great and powerful Circle of Fifths. After getting the left hand (fretting hand) under control, we turn to the right hand to explore the easiest and most common strumming and fingerpicking patterns.
This book is all about CHORDS: Major, minor and seventh chords, jazz chords, anchor chords, power chords and barre chords. Even if you’ve been playing for a while, you might want to check out this book. I’ve heard from several readers that Guitar From Scratch helped fill in certain gaps in their knowledge that they didn’t know existed.
Table of Contents
Preliminaries Choice of guitar Picks, capos and the neck Fretting and tuning Relative tuning Chords and chords E Minor chord Some principles E Major chord A Minor chord Switching from Em to Am C Major chord Switching from Em to Am to C G Major chord Switching between G and C Teamwork Sympathy and more G chords Song Examples D Major Chord The G Chord Family - song examples The Rhythm Changes F Major chord D Minor chord The C Chord Family - song examples Strumming Away Down-Up motion Notation Rock Strum Pattern Folk Strum Pattern Country Strum Pattern Hip Hop Strum Pattern The D Chord Family - song examples A Major chord B Minor and B Minor-seventh chords Seventh chords - D7, G7 and A7
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1 - 4 - 5 substitutions The A Chord Family - song examples Switching from A to D to E to E7 The E Chord Family - song examples B7 chord The Circle of Fifths Progressions in C, G and D Strumming, Part Two Escape hatch Jazz chords Major-seventh chords Minor-seventh chords Suspended chords Anchor chords Chord Review Fingerpicking Notation and the Tier System Arpeggios and Tablature ¾ Time Arpeggios in the wild Travis-Style fingerpicking 5/4 and 6/4 bass patterns Inside-Out picking patterns Outside-In picking patterns Pinch patterns Strumming, Part Three (variations) Power chords: E-shape and A-shape Barre chords: E-shape and A-shape 1 - 4 - 5 and Rhythm Changes Epilogue Appendix A: Bunches of Useful Chords Appendix B: Using the capo to make key changes
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10/6/20 CS