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As the title says, I'm looking for a decent, preferably spiral bound chord book. A jack of all trades, rather than being genre specific.
Is there a generally accepted go to book for chords that I should be aware of? Amazon have 8,182 books listed, and its a nightmare choosing one. This place is usually a font of knowledge on such things, so shout up please guys.
Don't want to spend any more than a tenner, and preferably no more than a fiver ideally.
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http://www.justinguitar.com/en/CH-000-Chords.php
i agree with this ...i think a great way to start is learning triads then add the flavours you want you want ....its a better way than trying to learn 2000 chords without knowing how they are built...
*makes throat slitting gesture*
When I play through Modern Chord Progressions I can hear all sorts of pop songs... but since you got nothing from it, it seemed likely others wouldn't either so... *makes zipping mouth closed locking and popping key in a pocket gesture*
It might be a result of my left handedness (although mentally reversing the diagrams is a pain) or just a result of being an auditory and kinesthetic person (aka blind as a bat and a mouth breather) but the process of learning the chords takes minutes and transitioning is pretty fast too - so I'm hearing each progression inside 5 minutes and then playing with the timing... after a week, I totally own the progression and pretty much the same time my ears are telling my brain I can slip in that nice III VI II V I from page 40 (although thankfully only as a set full sounds like an auditory halucination) ... my hands are playing it by which time all the brain can do is nod and say "yes that does sound nice" kinda hurt not to have been involved.
It's really that experience of ingrained experiences making great music and also ingrained combinations during sparring that made a massive shift away from theory for me.
Since it's made such a brilliant impact on my life, I used to like recommending it, maybe all it's worth really sharing is how it helped me.
Seriously, there's no point recommending something (regardless of how I like it) if it doesn't work - I've raved about it a few times and I feel I've let people down.
Since Justin Sandercoe pointed out Ted Greene to me (and Tommy Tedesco) and is a brilliant teacher - seems better to refer to his books in the first instance
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deluxe-Encyclopedia-Guitar-Chord-Progressions/dp/0786634421/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398966869&sr=1-2&keywords=deluxe+chord+encyclopedia#reader_0786634421
(you can at least preview a bit in Amazon for an idea of what you're getting)
The first section is very much these standard progression worked through, the second half becomes denser and is lots of crazy stuff. I'm still firmly in the first half...