The Advanced Guide to Chord Progressions
for Guitar - Volume I

 

The Advanced Guide to Chord Progressions
for Guitar - Volume I (AGCP1.shtml) | Updated: 26-Aug-2008 - 23:50

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The Advanced Guide to Chord Progressions for Guitar - Volume I

Author: Curt Sheller
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications - (82 pages)
Published: 2002
ISBN 10: 1-60321-004-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-60321-004-1
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches (coil binding)
Product Code: AGCP1
Product Page: www.curtsheller.com/books/AGCP1.shtml
Press Release: www.curtsheller.com/AGCP1/PR_AGCP1.html

Volume I of The Advanced Guide to Chord Progressions for Guitar features the principles of voice leading applied to chord progressions. These principles are explained using chords from volume I of The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords. Chapters with common major and minor full diatonic, partial diatonic and chromatic chord progressions are also included to further explore voice leading.

Before individual chords become the background of songs, they must be put into orders called chord progressions. This book organizes progressions according to string family, position, voice leading and chord magnetism. The Advanced Guitar to Chord Progressions for Guitar is an excellent preparation for the art of Rhythm Guitar.

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Contents
  • Forward
  • Introduction
  • Voice Leading Technique
    • String Family Considerations
    • Common Tone Location
    • Non Common Tone Location
  • Voice Leading Examples - Connecting Chords
    • Two Chord Example, String Family 1 2 3 4
    • Two Chord Example, String Family 2 3 4 5
    • Three Chord Example, String Family 1 2 3 4
    • Three Chord Example, String Family 2 3 4 5
  • How To Practice Chord Progressions
    • Written and Transposed Keys
    • Transposition Charts
  • Progressions
    • Full Diatonic Progressions
      • Major
      • Minor
    • Partial Diatonic Progressions
      • Major
      • Minor
    • Chromatic Progressions
      • Major
      • Minor
    • Common Major Progressions
    • Common Minor Progressions
    • Progressions using Upper Partial chords
    • Progressions using Altered chords
    • Mixed Upper Partial and Altered chords
    • Add and Sus chords
    • Slash chords
  • Advanced Techniques
    • Beyond Strict Voice Leading
    • Harmonic Rhythm
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Related Book Info

Information related to the topics 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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  • A Guide To Blues Chord Progressions For Ukulele A To Z - link
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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."

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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,

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(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.

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(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.

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