Product Description

Every chord of every key and mode is presented with thousands of diagrams and charts. Includes polychords, chord substitutions, inversions and movable voicings.

This indespensable volume belongs in every guitarist's library.

This book is a "where to" book, showing you exactly where to find any chord in any key on your fretboard. It is a professional reference tool to enhance your music library and playing that you will use for many years to come.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #469001 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Guitar for the Practicing Musician Magazine
" A great book...check it out."

Guitar World Magazine
"The Guitar Grimoire is a complete reference manual..."

Rob Boissiere
"The guitarist's Rosetta Stone. Puts other attempts to shame."

Customer Reviews

Great Find! One of the better Guitar Grimoire Books.
As a spirited collector and enthusiast of the Guitar Grimoire Series, I must say that I LOVE this book. It is a great tool for learning the notes and scales, and it goes nearly hand-in-hand with Scales and Modes. This book goes through essentially "What chords go to what scales and why," and contra positively, "What scales can I play over what chords and why."

Great book. Every guitarist needs this book. Pair it with Scales and Modes and the Exercise book and you've got one of the greatest sets of books out there. A definite must-have!

Adam Kadmon is GREAT!
As you can read in the other reviews, this book is not in any way an encyclopedia of chords (Kadmon offers that in a whole separate edition), this is a book of thousands of charts that show you all of the notes for any given chord and any given place that they occur on the fretboard, thus giving you the opportunity to create chords of your own liking, and also to create different voicings in endless places. As with all of the Kadmon Books this book is not intended for the player that is satisfied with just playing a few simple chords and making campfire style music; this book is more directed at the musician that is interested in exploring all of the small but important intricacies of music.

Grimoire is defined as a sorcer or magicians book of spells and encantations, and with that in mind, the title of this book is exactly fitting to what it is. One thing to keep in mind though is that Kadmon was very smart in the way that he markets his books, none of them are self inclusive, they each excessively explore one single aspect, but if you make the investment of buying 3 or 4 of his books, you should have more info than most people could digest in a lifetime. Enjoy!

PS: Not for the beginner.

This is the one.
If you're a serious guitar player and you just want to know your chords, this is probably the ONLY book you'll ever need. However, if you want to get the most out of it you'll probably have to (gasp) THINK about it a little. The diagrams show you where each chord tone is across the entire fretboard. So you can just look at it, then place your fingers any which way you want and try to get a good voicing. You want to play a B Major 7 chord? Here's the notes, man. Figure out your own way to play it. If you want to stretch your fingers accross seven frets, go for it. If you want to take it easy and play it in a more conventional way, feel free. That's what's great about this book: It allows you a seemingly infinite amount of CHOICES, instead of just showing you 2 or 3 ways to play a given chord. An amazing book - Ideal for jazz players or anyone wanting to become more familiar with the fretboard.