"UNDERSTANDING AND USING CHORDS AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS" is the book that tells you all the things the other chord books leave out. This book is designed for use with any instrument. The idea is to thoroughly understand chord construction and how chord progressions work, and apply that knowledge to your instrument - instead of learning rote fingering positions without understanding what it's all about.
 
 
In it's 110 pages, UNDERSTANDING AND USING CHORDS AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS covers:
Building the Basic Chords, Intervals/Inversion/Voicing, Simple Progressions, Common Chord Changes, Through the Keys, Circle of Fourths, Determining the Key of a Song, Common Non-Diatonic Triads, Pentatonic Blues Scale, Melody Notes and Chords, 7th Chords, Progressions With 7th Chords, Chord Functions, Secondary Dominants, The ii-V-I Progression, Resolution of the Dominant 7th, Adding Chords to Simple Progressions, More Non-Diatonic Triads, Minor Keys, Augmented Triad, Full Diminished Chord, Consonance and Dissonance,Voice Leading, Suspensions, Extensions, Alterations and Substitutions, Using Parts of Chords, Finding or Creating Lines, Reharmonization, Less Common Substitutes, Major to Minor Changes, Minor to Major Changes, Harmonic Cadence, Deceptive Cadence, Turnarounds, Passing Chords, Modulations, Effect of the Bass Note, Root Progressions, Harmonic Rhythm, Endings, Common Mistakes, Non-Traditional Voicings, Quartal Harmony, Correcting Chords, Chord Charts, Polychords, Simplifying Chord Progressions, Examples of Songs with Bridge or Chorus in a Different Key, Rules of Harmonic Progression, Chords Most Likely to Occur on Each Possible Root, Chords Most Likely to Accommodate Prevalent Non-Scale Melody Notes
 
 
Some of the feedback we have received:
"Everything was explained that needed explaining. Your presentation was wonderful. It was well-edited, lucid and insightful." - Jerry Scarpitta - trumpet, Bakersfield, CA
"Very original book - I really like it." - Arnold Mondragon - guitar teacher, Arcadia, CA.
"... excellent ... Your explanation of chords IS more thorough than in any book I've seen" - Alan Remington (College music professor, Costa Mesa, CA)

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