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    Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System
    Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System
    Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System
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    Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System

    By Gareth Evans

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    “Gareth Evan's guitar chord book is one of the most thorough and in-depth books I have ever seen. If you're armed with one of these books, you will have everything you will ever require to know all about chords.” Tony Cox - Award winning Acoustic guitarist (South Africa)

    Chords for Guitar is about moveable chord shapes based on the CAGED guitar system. Rather than presenting the same shapes for the same chord types as different chords when moved up or down the fret-board, giving 1000’s of chords, Chords for Guitar makes this into a simple unified process by showing only the moveable shapes and how to move them up or down the fret-board, allowing for more chord types.

    Chord Reference - Chords for Guitar is a reference of over 200 unique shapes for just over 60 different chord types, from the commonly used chord types such as major, minor, sus2, sus4, add9 and 7th chords to further extended chords, altered chords and inversions, enabling you to find many more chords yourself and get a better understanding of the fret-board.

    Questions and Answers - The root note location within all of the guitar chords is clearly marked out, enabling you to transpose its moveable shape up and down the fret-board. Each chord type has a question to make sure you’re on track to being able to locate guitar chords yourself; shift the root note to its note name location (e.g. C, F#, G etc.) apply the chord shape, then check the answer at the back.

    Theory - Theory and chord construction are explained using piano keys for the simplicity of its linear layout of notes, then applied to the six-string guitar, from the basics of using odd numbered intervals (e.g. 1, 3, 5 etc.) to the compound intervals within extended chords and alterations.

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    “I had wanted to start playing less with a capo, and more with an ability to transpose chords just by being more familiar with the fret board in it's entirety. This book teaches you exactly this. Highly recommended.” Rebecca Cullen, Performing Musician & Composer (UK)

    “At the School of Guitar we always use the CAGED system but we have never seen it applied so well to all chords. I love the way each transposable version of the chord is linked to an open chord. Simply the best book of chords we have seen.” Cormac O Caoimh, School of Guitar (Ireland)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntuition Publications
    Release dateAug 5, 2013
    ISBN9780956954787
    Chords for Guitar: Transposable Chord Shapes using the CAGED System

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      Chords for Guitar - Gareth Evans

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      How to use Fret-board Diagrams

      Root Notes & CAGED Chords

      Minor

      Augmented

      Diminished

      Suspended

      Suspended 2nd

      Power Chords

      Major 7th

      Dominant 7th

      Minor 7th

      Minor 7th b5

      Major 9th

      Dominant 9th

      Minor 9th

      Dominant 11th

      Minor 11th

      Major 13th

      Dominant 13th

      Minor 13th

      Major 7th #5

      Major 7#11 & Major 7b5

      Dominant 7th #5

      Dom 7#11 & Dom 7b5

      Dominant 7th #9

      Dominant 7th b9

      Minor 7th #5

      Dominant 7th sus4

      Diminished 7th

      Minor, major 7th

      Major 6th

      Minor 6th

      Added 9th

      Minor added 9th

      Dominant 7th b5b9

      Dominant 7th #5#9

      Dominant 7th b5#9

      Dominant 7th #5b9

      Major 9th #11

      Dom 9#11 & Dom 9b5

      Dominant 9th #5

      Dominant 9th sus4

      Sixth, added 9th

      Minor b6th

      Minor 6th added 9

      Minor 9th #5

      Minor 9th (major 7th)

      Dominant 13th b9

      Dominant 13th #9

      Dominant 13th #11

      Dominant 13th sus4

      Music Theory

      From Root Note on 6th string

      From Root Note on 5th string

      From Root Note on 4th string

      Chord Chart

      Inverted Chords

      Major, 1st inversion

      Major, 2nd inversion

      Minor, 1st inversion

      Minor, 2nd inversion

      Dominant 7th, 1st inversion

      Minor 7th, 2nd inversion

      Dominant 7th, 2nd inversion

      Dominant 7th, 3rd inversion

      Minor 7th, 4th as Bass

      Major, 2nd as Bass

      Minor, 6th as Bass

      Minor, b7th as Bass

      Answers

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      Introduction

      This book is designed as a reference to give you various shapes for different types of chord. These shapes are based on the C A G E D system, which comes from the chords that beginners often start with, enabling you to learn how to locate chords yourself. All you have to do is move the chord shape up or down the fret-board. To make sure you’re on track each chord type has a question with answers at the back of the book.

      You will not find the same shape repeated for any chord type within this book. Rather than give you 1000’s of chords, many of which are the same shape, this book gives you more chord types, just over 60, for which there are over 200 unique shapes.

      Due to the graphical layout of this book it is best viewed scrolling rather than page by page. Many parts of the book refer to and are linked to other parts, to return to your previous location just use the back button on your eReader.

      The simpler chords that we often start with (such as major chords) are not always necessarily the easiest to finger on the fret-board. Perhaps ironically an A13sus4 pattern 2 is easier to play than for instance a C major open chord. When playing any chord for the first time it can help to play one string at a time to make sure all the notes are clear. This can apply to all chords within this book. Although this is primarily a reference for movable chord shapes, relevant music theory has also been included later on in the book.

      How to use Fret-board Diagrams

      Fret-board diagrams for chords are usually shown vertically because chords tend to span less frets than scales. The following diagram on the left names the different parts, while the one on the right shows how chords

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