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Guitar Chord Books

Here are some guitar chord books you may be interested in.

I have put some notes on sme of them. I may be a bit biased, but I have found these books invaluable.

Guitar Chords Books For All Styles

I have also tried to include chord books for beginners, blues, country, jazz and heavy metal guitar.

 


Mel Bay Mel Bay's Guitar Chords

A good basic book.

 


Snarling Dogs BG-1 Guitar Chord Computer

 


The Music Stamp MSG-1 Guitar Chord Stamp

A great tool to use for creating your own chord diagrams. Start a notebook with your favorite chords for certain keys and progressions.

 


Alfred Guitar Chord Progression Encyclopedia

A highly recommended book.

 


Mel Bay Musician's Ultimate Picture Chord Encyclopedia (Guitar)

 


The Guitar Grimoire- Chord Encyclopedia

 


The Guitar Grimoire: A Compendium of Guitar Chords and Voicings

 


The Guitar 3 Chord Songbook : Play 50 Rock Hits with Only 3 Easy Chords

Shows how simple chord prgressions are used for many different songs.

 


The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook

This is a great book to get to study chord progressions and how they are used in real songs. So much can be learned from analyzing the chord progressions in this book.

 


Modern Chord Progressions

Pages and pages of jazz chord progressions.

 


Contemporary Chord Khancepts (Jazz Masters)

My personal favorite book. Deals mostly with modal chords for Lydian, Dorian and Mixolydian chords. Helpful for soloing and for chord melodies.

 


Drop 2 Concept For Guitar

Great book for learning about drop 2 chords and their voicings.

 


Mel Bays Complete Book of Harmony Theory and Voicing

Very Technical. But has it all. Tough.

 


Complete Book of Harmonic Extensions for Guitar

For serious study only.

 


Music Theory Workbook for Guitar: Chord and Interval Construction (Music Theory Workbook for Guitar)

How chords are made.

 


All Blues for Jazz Guitar: Comping Styles, Chords & Grooves

Great book for blues... particularly jazz and swing. Bit tricky because there are no diagrams, just notation and tab.

 


Blues You Can Use Book of Guitar Chords (Blues Guitar Instruction)

This series of books is great. Excellent instruction and examples you can put to immediate use.

 


101 Essential Country Chord Progressions

 


Heavy Metal Guitar Method - Chords (Instruction Series)

 


Chords and Progressions for Jazz and Popular Guitar (Guitar Books)

Choice book. Great diagrams and examples. By Arnie Berle.

There are many other books available, but these cover the range and are amongst the best in the bunch. They are all top sellers.

I have also noted my favorites and comments under some to hopefully help you make your choice.



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