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The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords - Volume I
Author: Curt Sheller
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications - (68 pages)
Published: 2002, Second Printing 2004
ISBN-10: 0-9714044-3-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-9714044-3-4
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches (coil binding)
Product Code: AGC1
Product Page: www.curtsheller.com/books/AGC1.shtml
Press Release: www.curtsheller.com/AGC1/PR_AGC1.html
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Series is your answer.
Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords. The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Series provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
Beyond learning open and barre chords, most guitarists struggle with advanced chords. Commonly called "jazz" chords, these more sophisticated voicings find a wide use in all forms of music.
Each volume of The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords presents a highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords. Chord dictionaries are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of guitar voicings.
For more information on The Advanced Guide to Chords series
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Contents
- Forward
- Introduction
- Four Part Major Chord Types
20 page sample (Major Chord types)
FILE: AGCv1Sample.pdf ( 548 K )
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- Seventh Chords
- String Family 1 2 3 4 *
- Major Chord Types *
- Upper Partial Ninths *
- Upper Partial Elevenths
- Upper Partial Thirteenths
- String Family 2 3 4 5
- String Family 3 4 5 6
- String Family 2 3 4 6
- String Family 1 2 3 5
- Four Part Minor Chord Types
- Minor Seventh Chords
- String Family 1 2 3 4
- Minor Chord Types
- Upper Partial Ninths
- Upper Partial Elevenths
- Upper Partial Thirteenths
- String Family 2 3 4 5
- String Family 3 4 5 6
- String Family 2 3 4 6
- String Family 1 2 3 5
- Four Part Diminished Chord Types
- Half-Diminished Seventh Chords
- String Family 1 2 3 4
- Diminished Chord Types
- Upper Partial Ninths
- Upper Partial Elevenths
- Upper Partial Thirteenths
- String Family 2 3 4 5
- String Family 3 4 5 6
- String Family 1 2 3 5
- String Family 2 3 4 6
- Four Part Augmented Chord Types
- Augmented Seventh Chords
- String Family 1 2 3 4
- Augmented Chord Types
- Upper Partial Ninths
- Upper Partial Elevenths
- Upper Partial Thirteenths
- String Family 2 3 4 5
- String Family 3 4 5 6
- String Family 1 2 3 5
- String Family 2 3 4 6
- Altered Chords
- Lowered Fifth
- Raised Fifth
- Lowered Ninth
- Raised Ninth
- Raised Eleventh
- Lowered Thirteenth
- 4-Part Triads
- Major Triad
- Minor Triad
- Diminished Triad
- Augmented Triad
- Supplement
- Suspended Chords
- Add Chords
- Slash Chords
- Fingerboard Note Charts
- 6 String - Sharp Notes
- 6 String - Flat Notes
- 7 String "Jazz" Guitar
- Adapting to 7 String Guitar
- 7 String - Sharp Notes
- 7 String - Flat Notes
Book Changes & Errata file
(on www.CurtSheller.com)
Testimonials
If you ask, "When I'm playing a solo over a jazz song, how do I know which notes work at any point in the song?" then you may want to have a look at this book (Harmonic Anaylsis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution)
You can glean this information from many sources, but this is a pithy, direct approach to the heart of the answer you're looking for. I would also suggest, for a broad, comprehensive, and beautifully written "Bible" on understanding jazz, Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book."
James K. Kroger, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University
I wanted to pay you a compliment. (Now don’t get a big head!). I have purchased many books over the past 15 years I have been playing and none of them come even close to having the detailed and easy to understand information yours have. I really got a chance to get some practicing in and am finding your books to be such a great learning tool. I also purchased a timer like you suggested and my practice sessions the past 4 days have been my best in years. Take care,
Nick (Matty) Matyszczak
JazzGuitarLife.com
(A review of The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1
by Lyle Robinson of JazzGuitarLife)
...When I received this instructional book for review my first question
was, “where was Curt Sheller when I needed him twenty years ago?” If I
had access to this book early on I would have most likely progressed
quicker than I did, especially when faced with a lead sheet from a fake
book with all those “weird” chord names and alterations.
Sheller’s “The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1”
provides the beginner and intermediate jazz guitar player with the most
common and great sounding chord voicings of all the major, minor,
dominant, augmented and diminished chords plus their alterations: 9, 11,
and 13ths. As well, he discusses the sus, add, and slash theory of such
chord formations.
This is a text that is beautifully laid out and very easy to work
through. What little chord theory there is throughout the book is
clearly explained and doesn’t bog the student down with too much
theoretical discourse. The chord diagrams are clearly defined and there
is no confusion about where fingers should be placed. This is definitely
a book that you can begin utilizing in a practical playing situation
almost immediately. And it’s great for teachers to get their
beginning Jazz guitar students to start hearing and playing those
wonderful voicings that excited us all early on in our development as
Jazz guitar players.
“The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1” is a great
beginning for any aspiring Jazz guitarist and I can't wait to check out
Volumes two and three.
Thank you Lyle Robinson
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) ... I was looking for blues chording info but your site came up as jazz chords. I figured soon or later I would need jazzer chords so here I am. Plus nobody else is offering more indepth info on the uke, I liked the scale one the best so far.
Thank you RDGauthier
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) The ukulele book arrived, it must have been chatting with some Christmas cards somewhere.
The books are great!! I am very happy to wrap the books up, and put them under the tree.
My husband and I are both learning to play ukulele and he is also playing a little bit of guitar. Thanks also for sending the full catalogue. These look like some of the best materials that I have found so far!
Thanks, Laura C.
Book Samples
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See The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords volumes I and II for more samples.
Related Book Info
Information related to the topics principles and information in the book.
- Here is an article titled Building A Solid Jazz Chord Foundation by Curt Sheller, published in the November 2004 issue of Just Jazz Guitar magazine.
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