Guitar Chord Bible: Over 500 Illustrated Chords for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz, and Classical (Volume 8) (Music Bibles, 8)

I was impressed with this book the moment I laid eyes on it. The design and the content are both excellent. DESIGN: -The book has a sturdy hardbound cover AND a spiral binding, so it is durable and lays flat when you use it. -The diagrams and photos are crystal clear. This is high quality printing on high quality glossy paper. -There are color-coded note "tabs" on the fore-edge, making it easy to navigate. -The size (6.8 x 1 x 8.1 inches) is just right: not too big, not too small. There are 5 chords per 2-page layout. CONTENT: -There are well over 500 chord diagrams plus real photos of a hand fingering each chord. -Each chord group has a brief 5-7 line introduction explaining the character and uses of the chords. -Every chord includes the fret location of the first finger or barre as appropriate up and down the neck. -All chords include harmonic intervals and note names. -The chord symbols are clear and easy to understand. -There's a handy index. Room for improvement: -Both the chord diagrams and photos are displayed "head-on" with the nut on the right as if you are looking directly at someone playing the chord. This is 90 degrees or 180 degrees different from most other standard chord references, so it takes a little getting used to. -While there are over 500 chords, it would be useful to include more chord types such as Add2, Add9, Diminished, etc. Summary: Many other guitar instruction books are either too crowded from a design perspective, too verbose, or are printed on poor quality paper or come in poor bindings. This chord reference book contains just the right amount of information on each page, expertly laid out, printed, and bound. More music publishers should use this book as a model.

This book is put together extremely well. Shows you more than chord pictures and the many ways to play the same chord differently. The pages are well protected and it's the perfect size. Great book to have in your guitar arsenal! Buy it!

This book is a huge reference for all the common chords you might use on guitar. It has a ton of information and I anticipate I'll be using it for years. The book is divided into sections by root note, C through B. Each note has subsections for the main chord qualities; major, minor and 7. Every chord is then laid out with a numbered diagram, as well as a photo showing the proper fingering position. It has several inversions for most chords. To get an idea of the comprehensiveness, the first section (for note C) includes: Cmaj (5 inversions), Cmaj6 (5), Cmaj7 (5), Csus4 (2), Csus2 (3), Cmin (5), Cmin6 (2), Cmin7 (3), Cdom7 (5), C7#5 (2), C7sus4 (3), Cdom9 (1), C7#9 (1), C7b9 (1), C13 (2). That's a total of 15 chord types and 45 inversions just for C! The other 11 sections are similar. My only complaint is the non-standard diagram notation (it's similar to the usual chord diagrams, but rotated at an angle and looks more like a photo than a drawing). This is probably a plus for novices, or people used to learning by watching someone play in front of them; for me it's an annoying mental adjustment. But it works, and is not a big enough gripe to knock off a star. A final note: this book is also a trove for ukulelists (I play both). Since the intervals between the ukulele's strings are the same as the 4 treble strings on the guitar, all the chord shapes listed in the book will also work on the ukulele. (They'll have the same quality; major, minor, 7, etc.; but sound 5 frets higher in pitch, so a Cmaj7 on the guitar is an Fmaj7 on the ukulele. Baritone uke is easier still--even the note names stay the same as the guitar.) Just ignore the two bass strings, and strum away! If you are a ukulelist, I'd also recommend Roy Sakuma's "Treasury of Ukulele Chords", which is available on Amazon too. Happy playing!

I picked this book after looking through several at the bookstore. What I liked about it was that it had lots of chords and it gave you some of the "logic" behind the chord and why/where you might use them. Most other books just have lots of chord pictures laid out on the page which I did not find helpful. Also this book shows an actual photo of a hand playing the chord which I liked. The book's tablature (chord pictures) shows which note is the root in the chord which I also liked. Another cool thing is that the book is spiral bound so that it will lay open flat. This is really helpful when you're actually playing your guitar chords and not holding the book. So while this book doesn't have 1000's of chords like some do (it doesn't get into a lot of "fancy" chords--suspended, 11ths, 13ths, etc) it does give you 500 of the most useful ones. I also like the appendixes that have more blues, jazz, rock chords. It's a good book all in all.

best chords book very informative

I basically just wanted a book of chord formations with their proper names so I could chart them out. This book includes that, hundreds of chords, but also gives a lot of in depth information about the chords as well. Really more information than I needed, but it's a great book. The one I got is not spiral bound.

Things have changed for guitar players. There is now a bewildering array of choices of material available. For a visual chord book with photographs, there are 3 choices: 1. Guitar Chord Bible 2. 2,600 Guitar Picture Chord Encyclopedia 3. 3,100 Guitar Picture Chord Encyclopedia The 3,100 Guitar Picture Chord Encyclopedia was too large as someone mentioned. I had to decide between this Guitar Chord Bible and the 2,600 Guitar Picture Chord Encyclopedia. Since I'm not a professional musician and I don't need to know thousands of chords, I decided on this Guitar Chord Bible. I also like how this book is in color and is spiral bound. With the color photographs, it's easier to see how the chords are played. With the spiral binding, it's easier to set it down and read it while playing. The paper is high quality and thicker than regular paper. The Guitar Chord Bible was an easy choice because it fulfilled all my requirements. I recommend that Amazon carry this book in their normal stock so that customers don't have to wait "1 to 4 weeks" to get it. I purchased this book used, "very good" condition, and it was fulfilled by Amazon via their 2-day Prime shipping.

The book itself is a great resource and easy to use/find the chords you are looking for. However I ordered a new copy of this book and it came with multiple pages bent/folded and a couple small marks on the cover. This was meant to be a gift so I was quite disappointed when it arrived.

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great book on guitar chord.

C'est réellement une bible des accords !!

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