The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible: Standard and Irish Tuning - 2,880 Chords (Fretted Friends Series)

The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible, with its 2,880 chords (in standard and Irish tuning) offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more complex thirteenths used by many jazz players. To accompany the 2,880 chords, a useful range of 288 slash chords are also featured, reflecting the popularity of this type of chord in many of today's artist and compilation topline songbooks.

This highly comprehensive guide provides the musician with no fewer than 36 different types of chord in all twelve keys in both standard CGDA and Irish GDAE tunings, making it the definitive publication for the Tenor Guitar. Whether you play folk, rock, pop, jazz or any other type of popular music, The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible makes the ideal reference source for all occasions.

Standard Tuning Chords covered in The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C, Cm, C-5, Cdim, C4, C5, Csus2, Csus4, Csus4add9, C+, C6, Cadd9, Cadd11, Cm6, Cmadd9, C6add9, Cm6add9, Cdim7, C7, C7sus2, C7sus4, C7-5, C7+5, C7-9, C7+9, Cm7, Cm7-5, Cm(maj7), Cmaj7, Cmaj7-5, Cmaj7+5, C9, Cm9, C11, C13.

Irish Tuning Chords covered in The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C, Cm, C-5, Cdim, C4, C5, Csus2, Csus4, Csus4add9, C+, C6, Cadd9, Cadd11, Cm6, Cmadd9, C6add9, Cm6add9, Cdim7, C7, C7sus2, C7sus4, C7-5, C7+5, C7-9, C7+9, Cm7, Cm7-5, Cm(maj7), Cmaj7, Cmaj7-5, Cmaj7+5, C9, Cm9, C11, C13.

Major Slash Chords covered in The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C/C, C/Db, C/D, C/Eb, C/E, C/F, C/F#, C/G, C/Ab, C/A, C/Bb, C/B.

Beside the many pages of chord boxes or windows, the book features useful sections on tuning, chord construction, fingerboard layout, FAQs, alternative chord naming, fingering, slash chords, harmonic intervals etc. The aim of this guide is to provide the musician with the flexibility only really offered to guitar and keyboard players in the past. Now, with the help of The The Tenor Guitar Chord Bible, musicians will be able to pick up any songbook and instantly have access to even the most complex and advanced chords.

The book is bound in an easy turn wire-bound format, following consulation with what working musicians need from a musical theory guide. This allows it to lie totally flat on a desk or music stand without the pages involuntarily closing or flapping around. It can also be folded back on itself to form an A4 size page or left open in an A3 sized double spread.