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    Guitar Chords: Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners - Secrets of the Guitar
    Guitar Chords: Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners - Secrets of the Guitar
    Guitar Chords: Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners - Secrets of the Guitar
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    Guitar Chords: Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners - Secrets of the Guitar

    By Herman Brock, Jr

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    Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners
    Major Guitar Chords
    Minor Guitar Chords
    Dominant Seventh Guitar Chords
    Minor Seventh Guitar Chords

    - Basic open guitar chords explained
    - Guitar neck explained
    - I - IV - V explained
    - 48 Practice examples, exercises and songs
    - How to transpose chord progressions

    Available in this series:
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to read tabs and tablature
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to use the CAGED guitar chords system
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to play the Blues scale in E
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to play the E pentatonic scale
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to play the G major pentatonic scale
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to play the Aeolian or natural minor scale in A
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to play Do-Re-Mi, the Ionian or Major scale in C
    Secrets of the Guitar - How to play the Mixolydian or Southern Rock scale in G
    Secrets of the Guitar - Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHerman Brock, Jr
    Release dateMar 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301266722
    Guitar Chords: Learn how to play Basic Open Guitar Chords for Beginners - Secrets of the Guitar
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    Herman Brock, Jr

    Herman Brock Jr. was born September 18th 1970 in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, son of a musician and guitar teacher. Herman has enjoyed a twenty-plus-year career as professional musician, international recording artist and guitar teacher himself, specialized in a diversity of modern guitar styles; Blues, Country, Folk, Funk, Metal, Punk, Rock and Rock & Roll.

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      This is a fun and useful read for beginners and for teachers of beginners. The terminology for string numbering and left hand fingers is inconsistent with standard usage which could cause confusion when the reader encounters other books.

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    Guitar Chords - Herman Brock, Jr

    Everybody that enjoys music can learn to play the simple, basic, open guitar chords. To a non-musician, playing guitar can look like something magical; Someone plays a few chords and POW, there's a song with rhythm and notes. Music is magical but there's a key to understanding the relation between notes, chords, scales and rhythm. The open guitar chords in this book are simple and easy to understand. Everyone who is willing to put a little practice time into it can learn to play the basics of the guitar.

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    Chapter 1

    The Guitar Neck

    This is the guitar neck, actually the first twelve frets of the neck (a fret is the vertical bar where you push the string against), we call this the fretboard. The letters to the left of the black bar represent the open strings of the guitar. From top to bottom (thin to thick): e - B - G - D - A - E. Since there are two E-strings, I used the lowercase letter "e for the high e-string and the capital E" for the low E-string. You can see all names of the the notes on every fret on every string. After the twelfth fret (double dots), the notes repeat themselves but are an octave

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