Product Description

If you want to take your guitar playing and thought process to the next level, check out this new book and CD and let it guide you beyond the two-fingered rut! The first of many music instruction titles, this thorough, detailed guitar book covers intermediate and professional guitar techniques and contains all the detailed, useful information you've been looking for. Many guitar players rely on power chords, which are simple chords that are somewhat limiting from a musical standpoint. Once you get comfortable with bar chords and the concepts taught in this book, however, the number of chords you can play will increase dramatically. "Beyond Power Chords" gives you the means to play all types of chords<-major, minor, seventh and more<-in all keys. Also included is an 85-track audio CD with almost 300 examples performed by the author.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159974 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Beyond Power Chords
This book has allowed me to better understand and expand the use of chords. I highly recommend it to anyone who learning to play the guitar.

If you are learning to play guitar, you definitely want this book
The content of this book is 5 stars all the way. I only dinged it a star because as I have opened the book about 100 times, pages are beginning to fall out. And I am generally pretty careful with books. So that's unfortunate, but only barely detracts from my appreciation of this book. The content is solid gold.

If you can play a few of the basic chords (C, A, G, E, D) and only add a few more here or there when you have to, this book will help you move beyond that. If you cannot play those basic chords yet, you might want another basic book first because this book picks up from there.

This book is not only teaching me how to play the guitar, at the same time, I am learning how to make music. Yeah, I am learning how to physically form the chords, but I am also learning how the chords in a scale relate to each other and sound good as you progress through different chord progressions. This is all explained VERY well in this book if you have no idea what I am talking about here.

If you know a beginning guitarist who can play a little bit already, this would make an excellent gift. I have a bunch of guitar books, and this is my favorite. I think the material in this book, if truly mastered, will take me about a year to learn. But I am playing songs from the first lesson, so I don't have to wait to make music.

If you don't already play all of the barre chords and you only buy one guitar book this year, it should be this one.

GREAT BOOK
This book has been very helpful for me. I would recommend it to anyone from beginner to advanced.

I have been playing guitar for about 1 1/2 & it has helped me to improve my playing and understanding of guitar and music.