Welcome
to More Guitar Chords and Accompaniment!
As a continuation of my previous book, Guitar Chords and Accompaniment,
this book will go into more detail about areas covered before as well as introduce some
new material:
In Chapter 1, you
will learn and practice more barre and movable chords in addition to those introduced to
you in Chapter 3 of Guitar Chords and Accompaniment. You will be pleased to discover that
there are many more chord forms that are movable or transposable to other roots using the
same principle you practiced previously.
Chapter 2 will
immensely expand your chord vocabulary by presenting alternative chord forms for many of
the open chords you learned in the previous book. You will see, for example, that there
are five additional chord forms you can play for the C6 chord! Similarly, you will find
many other ways to play each open chord. At the end of the chapter, some new chords which
you may find useful—particularly in playing contemporary rock, jazz or Latin
music—will be introduced.
In Chapter 3,
accompaniment examples for ten different musical styles are shown: blues shuffle,
rockabily, boogie, rock ballad, acoustic rock, folk, waltz country, jazz and classical.
The examples use and apply some of the accompaniment patterns and chords you’ve
learned up to now and help you understand how you can create an accompaniment style
yourself.
Chapter 4
presents five new accompaniment patterns with examples, for Latin/ Brazilian music:
reggae, beguine, rhumba, mambo, samba/bossa nova. This is only meant to be an introduction
to these styles, but will hopefully get you interested to learn more.
Along the way,
you may feel overwhelmed practicing and just thinking about conquering all these chords in
all positions and in all keys. Don’t worry. You won’t need to memorize or
remember all the possible alternative forms, for example, for the C chord at once. Pick
and practice only those chords that appeal to your ears. Or you can refer back to them
whenever you are writing a song and need something different. The point is to gradually
build or create your own favorite versions over a period of time. As you pursue a
particular music direction, you may also start developing your own chord
dictionary.
Good luck! I
sincerely hope you will have a lot of fun with this book!
(An
excerpt from More Guitar Chords and
Accompaniment )
