About Breaking The Chord Code: Guitar Theory for Beginners; Unlocked
This book was a labor of passion.
Originally, it was written for certain people I know personally who had a keen interest in learning how to play guitar.
This book is a very informative and a fun read for anybody who is curious about how guitar chords are constructed. It really delves into the specifics of what makes a chord, a chord.
The reader first learns about the 12 notes that make up all chords.
The reader is then shown one-by-one the main root notes on the 5th and 6th strings.
Learning these root notes is crucial for understanding what chord you are playing.
Without knowing, and studying where these are, knowing what key you are in is difficult, but with perfect study, it gets to the point where the student doesn’t have to think about it, they’ll eventually just know, which is key to learning a song without the guess work.
Most of the time, people who are being taught guitar are just shown how to form guitar chords, and then told what that chords are, in the hopes that they will remember.
The truth is that this is the hard way of learning chords because most people will know how to form it, but not know what it’s called, won’t know where the root note is, and not even know the notes of what they’re playing.
This book makes understanding easy.
The notes are broken down into a Major scale, and the reader learns how a triad is calculated, and then how to apply those triads to the fretboard to form chords.
Chord formation is very important information for anybody who wants to play the guitar, or for anybody who wants a general grasp of beginner music theory.
There are 13 different types of chords, all explained and displayed in all 12 keys with over 400 illustrations of the scales, their explanations, their triads and how they are constructed, and how to apply those notes to the fretboard and why.
It took over a year and three months from concept notes to final publishing.
But it’s been quite a wild ride. I hope anybody who obtains this book has as much fun reading it as I did writing it.
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Author Bio:
I am a seasoned guitar player. I was in a band for about 4 1/2 years.
But before I grasped a firm understanding of how chords are formed, I found out that, I was wrong for half my life.
I started out in about the year 2000 maybe more.
I would sit on the couch and my dad would show me open chords on an old acoustic guitar from the 70s.
However, although I was learning these chords, I was only taught the chords.
I was never taught why the chords where why they were. To put it in other terms, I knew how to form an open “A minor” chord.
However, I would not have known how to turn an “A Major” into an “A minor” because I didn’t know, at the time, what a triad was, let alone, how a triad is calculated.
Once I started learning triads and how they work, it was a game changer for me. I could calculate any chord within minutes.
Through this studying, I had discovered that I had been, for over 20 years, playing “dominant 7th” chords and mistakenly calling them “Major 7th” chords the whole time, it was quite startling.
But it was an eye opener to how important learning chord theory really was.
I also believed that 4th string “Major 7th” chords were 6th chords.
So after I had grasped how triads work, I realized quickly that for 25 years, I didn’t really have a clue what notes I was playing and that I was calling certain chords by the wrong name.
Once I started studying chord theory, I decided to write this book because there were a few people that wanted to learn guitar, but conflicting schedules made sure I wouldn’t have sufficient time to teach them.
So I decided to write a book on chord theory. I had a basic understanding of what I wanted to write and how I wanted to explain it, so in September 2023, it started out as concept notes on a page and by January 2024, I started typing it out, and a year later, it was published on Amazon Kindle January 4th 2025.