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complete-guitar-chord-poster

     AVAILABLE in Three Formats:


ABOUT THE COMPLETE GUITAR CHORD POSTER

The Complete Guitar Chord Poster shows the fingering positions of every guitar chord in standard tuning, including the inversions. Players at all levels, from beginner to advanced, can take advantage of this chart’s unique features.

  • Beginners—The chart shows the fingering positions for all the simple, basic chords in all major and minor keys. The poster also includes major scales for each key (left and right margins).

  • Intermediate-level players—As you move from left to right across the poster, chords become progressively more “advanced.” This makes it easy for you to learn new, unusual chords and chord inversions at your own pace, without losing track of your progress. Color bands make it easy to identify each key, and to quickly transpose the chords of a song from any key to any other key.  

  • Advanced players—Even the most expert players usually don’t have all chords in all keys memorized. The right side of the Complete Guitar Chord Poster shows the fingering positions of extended jazz chords such as 11ths and 13ths, organized so that you can find any chord fingering position in any key at a glance.

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"Yes, you heard it here—a chart of every chord on the guitar ... This clever poster is beautiful ... It's useful in place of looking up a chord in a chord dictionary ... [It] will nag you into learning and experimenting with chords." —Dan Crary, Frets Magazine ("Recommended Gifts for Guitar Players").

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HERE'S A CLOSE-UP VIEW OF THE CHORD DIAGRAMS AS THEY APPEAR ON THE COMPLETE GUITAR CHORD POSTER

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"I used to use a chord book but could never make much sense of how chords work. So this poster is a godsend, it's magnificent. Thanks!" —C. Matthewson, Ogdensburg, NY

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COLOR BANDS IDENTIFY THE KEYS

  • All chords and chord progressions in the same key appear in the same horizontal colour band on the Complete Guitar Chord Poster. For example, all chords in the key of F are located in the orange band; all chords in the key of A- flat are located in the green band.  

  • Apart from the utility of clear key-identification, the rainbow-like arrangement of the colour bands makes for a pleasing visual effect.

 

36 CHORD TYPES

  • The Complete Guitar Chord Poster shows several fingering positions for each of 36 chord types in each key. The chords are arranged in logical order across the poster. The simplest chords are on the left side. The jazziest (extended) chords are on the right side.

  • Here’s a list of the 36 chord types:

Major
Minor
6th
Minor 6th
Dominant 7th
Major 7th
Minor 7th
9th
Diminished
Augmented
Suspended 2nd
7th, Suspended 2nd
Suspended 4th
7th, Suspended 4th
5th
Diminished 5th
7th, Diminished 5th
Minor 7th, Diminished 5th
7th, Augmented 5th
7th, Minor 9th
7th, Augmented 9th
7th, Minor 9th, Augmented 5th
7/6
9th, Diminished 5th
9th, Augmented 5th
Major 9th
Minor 9th
9/6
Minor 9/6
Added 9th
11th
Minor 11th
Augmented 11th
13th
13th, Minor 9th
13th,Minor 9th, Diminished 5th

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"When I first saw this [Complete Guitar Chord] poster, I just burst out laughing. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. All those chords, all together like that, and so ingeniously organized, it's just stunning. I bought three of them ... for me and the others in the band. Somebody came up with a truly brilliant idea here."—Alexis Hill, London, England

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MAJOR AND MINOR CHORD PROGRESSIONS

  • On the left side of the Complete Guitar Chord Poster is a special section called Principal Chords/Relative Minor. This section shows you the 6 fundamental chord types (each with 4 different fingering positions) that make up the basic major and minor chord progressions in each key.

  • For example, in the key of C, these 6 chords are:

C Major
 
F Major
 
G7
 
A Minor
 
D Minor
 
E7

(Major Tonic, or I-chord)
 
(Major Subdominant, or IV-chord)
 
(Dominant Seventh, or V7-chord)
  
(Minor Tonic, or VIm-chord)
  
(Minor Subdominant, or IIm-chord)
 
(Dominant Seventh, or III7-chord)

  • This section is especially useful when writing songs and working out chord progressions. Also, you can use it to transpose the chords of a song from one key to another key at a glance (see below).

  • These are the chords that make up the harmonic scales on the Chord Progression Chart.

  • For complete information on chord progressions and how they work, consult How Music REALLY Works!, 2nd Edition, available at:

 www.HowMusicReallyWorks.com.

 

"The best part of the guitar chord chart is the chord progressions ... it really helps with my songwriting." —Bill Stern, Killeen, TX

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CHORD TRANSPOSING

Suppose the chords of a given song are in the key of D. The chords might be, for example:

D, Bm, F#7, Dm7, and A7

  • How can you quickly find the equivalent chords in a different key, for example, the key of G? And how do you finger the chords in the new key?

  • Here's how, using the Complete Guitar Chord Poster. The red horizontal bar contains all the chords for the key of D. The grey horizontal bar contains all the chords for the key of G. So, wherever any chord appears in the red bar, just play whichever chord appears in the same column in the grey bar.

  • Here's the original chord sequence in the key of D, followed by transposed chords in the key of G:

Chords in Original Key (Key of D, red bar):

D, Bm, F#7, Dm7, A7

Chords in Transposed Key (Key of G, grey bar):

G, Em, B7, Gm7, D7

  • You don't have to do any mental calculations to transpose the chords from one key to another. Just look at the colour bar corresponding to the key you want to transpose to. Then play whichever chords appear in the same columns as the chords in the colour bar of your original key. That’s all there is to it.

 

LEARN NEW CHORDS WHETHER YOU READ MUSIC OR NOT

  • The Complete Guitar Chord Poster shows both the fingering diagrams and the musical notes that make up each chord and each inversion. So, whether you read music or not, you can learn to play any chord.

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"These charts are fantastic. I don't read music, so I use the [Complete Guitar Chord] poster like it's my guitar 'Bible' "
—C. L. Hunt, Paterson, NJ

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MAJOR SCALES IN THE LEFT AND RIGHT MARGINS

  • The left and right margins of the chart incorporate fingerboard diagrams of all 12 major diatonic scales. Each scale diagram shows the name of each note within the scale.

  • However, the Complete Guitar Chord Poster is not nearly as useful for scales as the Guitar & Keyboard Scales Poster.

 

NO “CHORD SPAM

  • A typical chord book or computer program will show 20 to 30 fingering positions for a single type of chord, such as C Major. But only four are unique fingering positions. All the other fingering positions are simply partials of the four unique fingering positions—in other words, chord spam.

  • That’s how chord books and computer programs justify their boasts of “10,000 guitar chords.” The great majority of those “chords”—80 to 90 percent—are simply partials (chord spam) of the same few unique fingering positions. Chord spam is confusing when you're trying to learn chords and understand how they work.

  • The Complete Guitar Chord Poster displays only the unique chords and chord inversions. No chord spam.

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"I've played guitar for 10 years and didn't realize how the chords I was playing relate to each other. Well, this [Complete Guitar Chord] poster makes the whole thing clear as a bell." —P. H. Schroeder, Stockton, CA

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TWINS: THE COMPLETE GUITAR CHORD POSTER AND THE COMPLETE KEYBOARD CHORD POSTER

  • Although you play guitar, you may be interested in learning keyboard chords and scales. The Complete Keyboard Chord Poster is the twin of the Complete Guitar Chord Poster.

  • The two charts match each other in content, size, colour, and layout. The same information is located in the same places on each chart. So, if you play one instrument, you can learn to play the same chords on the other, using the twin chart for the other instrument.

 

 

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