Everybody knows a few guitar chords, and it's fun to use them to accompany your favorite songs. This book is just full of ideas to help you sound like a pro while playing even the simplest chords. Concentrating on the most commonly used chords in the most frequently used keys, Dan Donnelly teaches enjoyable ways to embellish chords in a friendly, step-by-step approach. Learn what chords are usually combined and many great-sounding ways to go between them. Discover how variety and color can be added to your songs just by picking up a finger or adding another. Get started in this book today and become everybody's favorite accompanist.

Younger students will enjoy this creative approach to playing simple guitar chords. Chords are taught with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in many different keys. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with detailed illustrations showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. Open chords for folk music as well as power chords for rock music are presented clearly and easily in this text. A complete easy chord chart and capo chart is provided at the end of the book for easy reference. Examples and exercises are presented in strum bar notation.

Includes hundreds of guitar chords and chord progressions in all styles in all 12 keys. Contains progressions in all styles, including rock, blues, jazz, folk, alternative, country and more. Recommended for beginning to intermediate guitarists.

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(Guitar Chord Songbook). This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by the Beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Also features a helpful playing guide and a full discography. Songs include: Across the Universe * All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Blackbird * Day Tripper * Dear Prudence * Drive My Car * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * A Hard Day's Night * Help! * Helter Skelter * Hey Jude * I Saw Her Standing There * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In My Life * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * The Long and Winding Road * Michelle * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Paperback Writer * Penny Lane * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * She Loves You * and more!

Everybody knows a few guitar chords, and it's fun to use them to accompany your favorite songs. This book is just full of ideas to help you sound like a pro while playing even the simplest chords. Concentrating on the most commonly used chords in the most frequently used keys, Dan Donnelly teaches enjoyable ways to embellish chords in a friendly, step-by-step approach. Learn what chords are usually combined and many great-sounding ways to go between them. Discover how variety and color can be added to your songs just by picking up a finger or adding another. Get started in this book today and become everybody's favorite accompanist.

This is a comprehensive study of the development of counterpoint form the sixteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century. Deriving the rules of counterpoint from the music itself, each chapter begins with a complete musical example followed by questions for class discussion. Chapter observations and subsequent musical examples amplify the concepts discoverd through individual analysis. --book cover.