About Breaking The Chord Code: Guitar Theory for Beginners; Unlocked by Brandon Smith
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 600 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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