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    Chordmaster Chord Theory for Guitar
    Chordmaster Chord Theory for Guitar
    Chordmaster Chord Theory for Guitar
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    Chordmaster Chord Theory for Guitar

    By Michael Ellis

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    Stop looking up guitar chords and memorizing pictures. Learn to understand what each chord title means. Learn how YOU can make any chord in just days. Each part of the guitar chord title is an instruction. Learn what these instructions mean and use the two main barre chord shapes provided as the starting point, and you can make literally thousands of chords GUARANTEED! CHORDMASTER Chord Theory for Guitar takes you step-by step through learning the secrets to understanding chord titles, what they mean, and shows examples of how to make each chord two ways. Then you can apply this knowledge to make them even more ways.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateNov 2, 2010
    ISBN9780557793013
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      Chordmaster Chord Theory for Guitar - Michael Ellis

      Chordmaster Chord Theory for Guitar

      CHORDMASTER tm

      Chord Theory for Guitar

      How to Make and

      Understand Guitar

      Chords

      A CoMPREHENSIVE cHORD STUDY

      For Beginning and Advanced Musicians

      copyright  Michael Ellis 2010

      10206 Lakemere Drive, Dallas, TX 75238

      ISBN: 978-0-557-79301-3

      Reproduction in whole or in part is not permitted

      without permission of the author.

      Published by Mike Ellis Music Instruction

      Website: http://www.ellismusiclessons.com

      This book is dedicated to my son, John, and Mr. Terrill Gardner, without whom it would never have been possible.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Why Chordmaster?

      Chapter 2 Let’s Get Started

      Your First Test

      Chapter 3 Scales Made Easy

      Figuring Out the D Major Scale

      Figuring Out the E Major Scale

      The Natural Major Scales

      NUMBERS – The Secret to Music Theory

      Your Second Test

      Chapter 4 Chords from Scales

      Your LAST Test

      Congratulations, You have Completed the Basics

      Guitar vs. Piano

      Finding the Notes on the Guitar

      The Roots, 3rds, and 5ths in First and Second Position

      Chapter 5 Advanced Chord Theory

      Minor Chords

      Seventh Chords

      Substitutions – minor, suspended, flat 5, and augmented

      5th Scale Note Substitutions

      Memorization Required to Make 798 chords

      Additions – 6th 7th and Major 7th

      Combination Titles

      Diminished and Half-Diminished

      Added Notes

      Inversions

      The Slash Character in a Chord Title

      Some Ambiguous Chord Names

      Chapter 6 The CHORDMASTER REVIEW PAGE

      CHORDMASTER CHORD LIST

      OVER 16,000 POSSIBLE CHORDS!

      Chapter 1  Why  Chordmaster?

      To begin, the Chordmaster method was developed by a professional teacher with twelve years of experience.  It was during these years that Michael Ellis found that the study of music and specifically the study of chords and their structure was not the nebulous, huge conglomeration of knowledge that most books would have a student believe.  The fact is that chord names are the instructions needed to build the chord if you know the terminology.  When you see a chord name in a book, you should instantly understand what notes to play.  After you have read this instruction manual you will be able to make any chord.  If you play an instrument besides the guitar, you will still understand the construction of any chord name you see.  All you will need to know is the major form of the chord for your instrument, be it guitar, bass, flute, or any instrument.

      So, why CHORDMASTER?  It is simply because there is no longer the need to memorize hundreds or thousands of chords.  Learn to understand the language of chord names, the instructions they give, and you will be a master of chord construction, guaranteed.  And the most important reason to use the CHORDMASTER How to Understand Chords manual, is that if you can devote yourself to these sixty-seven pages of instruction, you will be able to make and understand over 16,000 chords!

      How to Proceed Through This Manual

      There will be several sections to this manual, in order of the progression from notes to simple chords, to advanced chord theory.  It is imperative that you initially go through the manual from start to finish, in order.  Don’t skip any pages and don’t skip any of the question and answer pages.  When you have finished, you will be able to locate the review pages for each section and refresh what you have read in a concise form that will allow your knowledge to grow in steps toward your goal.  At the end, there is a summary review page of all the chords.  This summary will make sense to you if you have gone through all the preceding sections.  Caution: Jumping to the summary page prematurely will only serve to confuse you and retard your learning.  Please, take it a step at a time.  A Mr. Barrier once told my brother, Life by the inch is a cinch, it’s life by the yard that’s hard.

      Chapter 2  Let’s  Get  Started

      We must first make no assumptions in what you know or don’t know.  So, let’s start at the beginning.  When some musicians hear chord names like G minor seventh augmented, they begin to wonder how they will ever memorize all the chords that can be made. Chord theory is a system of understanding how chords are made, so you DON’T have to MEMORIZE hundreds or thousands of chords.

      If you start at the beginning, you should first ask, What is a note?

      A note (or tone) is any single sound that is pleasing to the ear. Any single key you press on the keyboard produces a NOTE.    OK?    GOOD!

      How many notes exist? Would you believe that only 12 notes exist?  That’s right! Only 12 notes exist! The notes repeat up and down the keyboard from the Middle C note in

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