Guy's Grids: More Than a Chord Book

Guy's Grids: More Than a Chord Book by Guy McRoskey. spiral_bound edition. ISBN: 9780615791333.

Guy’s Grids is comprehensive, including over 2,000 open chord forms and over 700 moveable chord forms. An oversized book of 228 pages, Guy’s Grids is divided into four major tabbed Open Chord Grids, Moveable Chord Grids, Open Chord Index, and Moveable Chord Index. Each of the grid pages has the same column and row format, designed in a logical manner to clearly demonstrate chord relationships. The columns pertain to chord families (major, dominant, minor, and diminished). The top row contains triads, and the lower rows are sequentially arranged to display chords created from these triads by the inclusion of a 7th, 6th, 9th, 11th, or 13th scale degree. Effectively, the grid page promotes contextual learning by presenting related chords in logical proximity to one another. The experts “I enthusiastically recommend the chord book Guy’s Grids to all guitar students beginning through advanced, as it is well suited for visual learners (which most of us are) and stimulates creative thinking about chord shapes and chord theory." Peter Pupping, Recording Artist Each grid page includes a practice progression utilizing the chord forms on that page, and the enclosed CD contains a play-along track for each practice progression providing a tool for enhancing memory retention and playing skills. Guy’s Grids is highly detailed, with each chord form showing the recommended fingering, and the chord tones and scale degrees being played on each string. Guy’s Grids conveniently categorizes each chord by its usefulness, based on the sound quality and the ease of playing. The book also contains a special “Anchor Chords” section, listing all of the first chords to be learned by the beginning guitarist.