Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide.

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide.

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide.

For example, there's an open C chord...
Moving up the neck, we have a C chord based on an open A shape.
Extending from that is a C chord based on an open G shape.
Connecting to this is an 8th fret C chord based on an E shape...
which connects to a C chord based on an open D chord shape.
All together, we have a CAGED C Chord... Voila! C-A-G-E-D!

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide.

For example, there's an open C chord...
Moving up the neck, we have a C chord based on an open A shape.
Extending from that is a C chord based on an open G shape.
Connecting to this is an 8th fret C chord based on an E shape...
which connects to a C chord based on an open D chord shape.
All together, we have a CAGED C Chord... Voila! C-A-G-E-D!
RHYTHM GUITAR AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS
Knowing these different chord positions will allow you to be more flexible and create many different voicings, rather than just playing the same group of chords. Take a simple 2-chord progression, like G to C. You can then easily spice things up by moving to higher or lower chord positions— yet you are still playing the same 2 chords, G to C. It’s as simple as that.

For example, there's an open C chord...
Moving up the neck, we have a C chord based on an open A shape.
Extending from that is a C chord based on an open G shape.
Connecting to this is an 8th fret C chord based on an E shape...
which connects to a C chord based on an open D chord shape.
All together, we have a CAGED C Chord... Voila! C-A-G-E-D!
RHYTHM GUITAR AND CHORD PROGRESSIONS
Knowing these different chord positions will allow you to be more flexible and create many different voicings, rather than just playing the same group of chords. Take a simple 2-chord progression, like G to C. You can then easily spice things up by moving to higher or lower chord positions- yet you are still playing the same 2 chords, G to C. It's as simple as that.