Chords and Scales

Guitar Melody Chord Playing System
 

Chord Workbook for Guitar: Chords and Chord Progressions, Vol. 2
This book is unique in that it has all the possible chord voicings on the top four strings of the guitar. These are the voicings that are used in funk, rock, R&B, and jazz. A chord progression section is also included and allows the student to use the common progressions of a blues and minor blues. The information presented in Volume Two builds on the theoretical material presented in Volume One, but also introduces highly advanced reharmonization concepts. Intermediate students will find the progressions challenging, while the reharmonization section will be a most rewarding exercise for the advanced student.

The Advanced Guitar Case Chord Book (Compact Reference Library)
Handy guide to advanced guitar chord forms includes tips on chord and music theory + musical examples for each type of chord.
 

The Original Guitar Case Scale Book (Guitar)
A thesaurus of essential scale forms for study and practice, with valuable tips on using scales to build speed, endurance, and fretboard fluency.
 

The Acoustic Guitar Method Chord Book
David Hamburger's supplementary chord book for the Acoustic Guitar Method is a must-have resource for guitarists who want to build their chord vocabulary! Starting with a user-friendly explanation of what chords are and how they are named, this book presents chords by key in all 12 keys, offering both open-position and closed-position voicings for each common chord type. Also includes info on barre chords, using a capo and much more.

Scales over Chords: How to Improvise and Never Play Bad Notes
All you need to know about the art of improvisation. Teaches the guitar player how to improvise and play lead lines over chord progressions. Also explains how to create and use intervals, scales, modes and arpeggios in any key. With helpful accompaniment cd containg back up and play along tracks.

Incredible Chord Finder: A Complete Guide to 1116 Guitar Chords
A complete guide diagramming over 1,000 guitar chords in their most common voicings. The book is arranged chromatically and each chord is illustrated in three ways for three levels of difficulty: the easiest form of the chords for the beginner and the more difficult versions for the intermediate and advanced players. Note names of each string are indicated on each chord diagram to let the player know what notes are being played in the chord.

Mel Bay's Complete Book of Guitar Chords, Scales and Arpeggios
 

The Guitar Case Chord Book in Color
174 chords with clear full-color photos and diagrams. Grouped by chord family. Includes a special section on movable chord forms.

Complete Guitar Scale Dictionary
Absolutely a landmark text! Author Mike Christiansen spent countless hours researching the scale forms used in all major musical idioms and also those found in other non-Western musical cultures. In addition to a myriad of scale forms (both conventional and rare) for major, minor, pentatonic, and blues, in-depth sections are contained on modes symmetrical altered scales, exotic scales and Japanese scales. Among the scale forms presented are Byzantine, Persian, East Indian Purvi, enigmatic, eight-tone Spanish, Promotheus, Gagaku, Zokugaku, In Sen Pou, Arabian and Balinese!! Scales are shown in notation, tablature, and diagram form. Also, rules are given for each scale showing showing construction and appropriate usage in relation to chordal structure and harmony. Companion DVD included featuring Mike and Corey Christiansen demonstrating improvistional applications of each scale.

Chord Progressions for Guitar
This "private lesson" with MI instructor Tom Kolb is an easy-to-use guide to the most essential chords, rhythms and strumming patterns for a huge variety of musical styles: rock, blues, jazz, country, folk, RandB, funk, soul, Latin jazz, fusion, ska, reggae and gospel! Each musical example in the book is demonstrated on the accompanying CD, backed by a full rhythm section.

Guitar Cords & Scales
The fast way to find just the chord or scale you need. This user-friendly reference book is jam-packed with over 1,400 chords and voicings and includes a "jam session" with 20 original songs using common chord progressions.

Chords & Scales for Guitar (Fast Track (Hal Leonard))
The fast way to find just the chord or scale you need, all in a convenient size. This user-friendly reference book is jam-packed with over 1,400 chords and voicings and includes a "jam session" with 20 original songs using common chord progressions.

Chords for Keyboard & Guitar: A Pocket Reference Guide to More Than 1800 Chords (The Paperback Songs Series)
This convenient reference features a clear, concise, simple and visual approach to keyboard and guitar chords. Includes over 800 keyboard chord frames, over 1000 guitar chord frames, and a helpful explanation on how chords are formed. Multiple voicings (with explanations on when to use each) are given for each chord.

The Easiest Guitar Case Chord Book (Compact Reference Library)
This essential chord reference book is perfect for the guitar case. All the basic guitar chords are always right at your fingertips.

Scale Chord Relationships
Scale Chord Relationships teaches players how to determine which scales to play with which chords, so guitarists will never have to fear chord changes again! This book/CD pack explains how to: recognize keys; analyze chord progressions; use the modes; play over nondiatonic harmony; use harmonic and melodic minor scales; use symmetrical scales such as chromatic, whole-tone and diminished scales; incorporate exotic scales such as Hungarian major and Gypsy minor; and much more!

Left-Hand Guitar Chord Chart
A handy chord reference guide showing basic major and minor chords in all keys. Relative and secondary minor chord relationships shown on principal chords. All forms are fingered for the left-handed guitarist. Also shown is a guitar fingerboard with all the corresponding notes on a guitar strung for a left-handed performer.

Guitar Studies: Chords
This definitive jazz guitar chord method by music legend Chuck Wayne shows guitarists how to arrive at each voicing and how to vary it, using Chuck's unique systematic approach. He covers: basic triads to open voiced harmony; generic and specific voicings; cross-reference recognition of equal tonalities; pick and fingers technique; and much more. A must for any serious guitar student!

Mel Bay's Complete Book of Guitar Improvisation
 

More Guitar Chords & Accompaniment: Step Up Your Chord Vocabulary & Accompaniment Skills! (2nd Edition)
More Guitar Chords and Accompaniment has been completely revised and expanded!

Guide to Guitar Chord Progressions
 

Fast Forward/Acoustic Guitar Chords
A comprehensive introduction to the basics of acoustic guitar plus many insider’s secrets on getting a great acoustic sound. Includes matching audio cd.

Open-String Guitar Chords
Explore the fingerboard with this first-of-its-kind book! It will help you add new dimensions of color to your playing, no matter what style you prefer or what level player you are. It includes over 4,000 chord voicings and more than 45 different chord types, covering major, minor, seventh, extended chords and more!
 

Minor Pentatonic Scales for Guitar (Guitar Center Proline Series)
 

Understanding Guitar Chords
 

Mel Bay Presents Understanding How to Build Guitar Chords & Arpeggios
 

Chord Orbits
Explores the sound and shape of a chord's progression up and down the fingerboard. Each chord type is presented in eight fingerings using a cyclic diagram that shows that after the eighth fingering you will have arrived back at the starting point -- one octave higher.
 

Guitar Scale Guru: The Scale Book - Your Guide for Success!
All of the essential diagrams, drawings and information concerning theory, scales, and their uses in one easy-to-use book! Covers the five essential scales for today's guitarists - major, major pentatonic, minor, minor pentatonic and blues - with a unique Linking System that makes it easy to understand scales like a pro!

Scale Patterns
This book illustrates, in each of five different positions, all the modes of the major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, pentatonic, blues, diminished and whole tone scales. Don also shows the primary uses for each scale, with an example of each.