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Mel Bay Rhythm Guitar Chord System

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This may well be the single best guitar instruction book ever written! Every rock & jazz guitarist should own this book. You will learn to play all the chords most guitarists will likely need to know within 3 frets of any position. I have owned this book since 1976 & play through it every year or so as a refresher course & enjoy doing so. Novice players should have a teacher take them thru this book, more experienced guitarists will have no problem studying it on their own. Highest recommendation!

I have been playing guitar for almost 35 years and I have been teaching privatly for last 20 years. Rhythm and Chord book by Mel Bay is an excellent book in learning chords in all positions on the fretboard. I highly recommend this book, this is one of the supplemental books I use in teaching.

In addition to all the previous kudos from other reviewers, I have to add that if you think about what you are practicing and approach single note position playing from a chord basis, this will help you come up with many possibilites in your lead playing. In my teen years, this book became my key to release me from the constraints of and push me beyond Pentatonic Minor scales. A good teacher can help make the connection between chords and scales faster. I highly recommend this book and teach out of it regularly.