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Guitar Chords and Accompaniment (2nd Edition) — Learn Guitar Chords and Various Accompaniment Styles Step by Step (ISBN: ) has been completely and newly revised! 

Written specifically for people with little or no playing experience, this highly praised and reviewed guide teaches you step by step how to play most basic guitar chords and accompaniment.  

Starting with such basics as how to hold your guitar, proper finger positioning, guitar tuning and basic music notation, the book then guides you through basic open chords, moving on to the more challenging barre and slash chords with large, easy-to-follow chord diagrams. While learning chords, you will become skilled at playing from basic to advanced accompaniment patterns that you can readily apply to your favorite styles of music: rock, folk, blues, pop, country and jazz. 

Best of all, the book has been carefully organized and designed to help beginners overcome many of the common problems they are likely to encounter. While the presentation is clear enough for a novice, students with several years of training will also benefit from the variety of styles and approaches. A perfect textbook for both beginning and intermediate students and private or classroom guitar teachers. 

Now in its second and improved edition, more new chords, accompaniment patterns and fun-to-play exercises along with some new techniques and features have been newly added.

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"This guide offers beginners a gradual, step-by-step, solid introduction to open, barre, and slash chords, finger-picking patters, and strumming techniques. Suitable for public and high school libraries."
—Cleo Pappas, Library Journal

"Guitar Chords and Accompaniment is essential for any beginning guitar player regardless of the musical style being aspired to."—James A. Cox, MBR

"Guitar Chords and Accompaniment provides a step-by-step system for learning chords and accompaniment patterns—solid, general introduction to the guitar."—Music & Sound Retail

"Very knowledgeable instruction from an author with real teaching, playing, and writing experience. Highly recommended for the beginning acoustic guitarist of any style." —GuitarBooks.com

"I have never found an instruction book that’ll get a beginner up and going as quickly as this one. I gave the book to my 19 year old stepson who had never played guitar. Within an hour he was able to finger three chords and shift smoothly between them.  He was hooked, and you can’t ask for any more than that."—Tom Person, Editor, Laughing Bear Newsletter

"...Guitar Chords and Accompaniment takes everything several steps further, and presents it in a clear, organized fashion. Very insightful, well written, extremely helpful. It stands out as a book with a lot to offer.  I'll give Guitar Chords and Accompaniment an A+."— Alex Steininger,  In Music We Trust

"An excellent book for beginners and mid-level players. A very structured approach to the study of chords and their use in guitar music."—John Baboian, Associate Professor of Guitar, Berklee College of Music

"I’m very impressed with the book: it is well designed, clear, written in good and easily understandable prose, and does precisely what it proposes."—Gordon Burgett, speaker, publisher, and author of "Sell and Resell Your Magazine Articles"

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| Guitar Chords | Table of Contents |Excerpts |

| Intro | Ch. 1 | Ch. 2 | Ch. 3 | Ch. 4 | Ch. 5 |