코드는 거의 모든 서양 음악의 기본이며 특히 기타연주에서 항상 사용되는 도구이기도 합니다.
하지만 코드의 모양을 외워서 사용하다보면, 곧 여러가지 의문점들이 듭니다.
코드는 어떻게 만들어졌는지, 복잡한 코드들은 뒤에 왜 이렇게 이상한 이름들이 붙게 되었는지, 왜 어떤 코드들은 좋게 들리고 어떤 코드들은 나쁘게 들리는지 등등.
이 책은 이러한 궁금증을 모두 해결해줍니다.
코드 이론과 연습, 움직일 수 있는 코드 모양, 바레 코드와 트라이어드, 5th 코드, 컬러 노트, 9th/11th/13th 등 텐션 노트가 들어가는 익스텐디드 코드, 대리 코드 등등 코드에 대한 모든 것이 담겨있습니다.
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- Contents -

INTRODUCTION

A PRELUDE IN MUSICSPEAK AND THE ROSETTA STONE FOR GUITAR DIAGRAMS
Some basic ideas, tools, and skills you should know
Intervals
Circle Diagrams
Tablature and Chord Diagrams
The Naming of Chords

A BEGINNER'S COLLECTION OF CHORDS IN OPEN POSITION

CHAPTER ONE: FIRST STEPS IN CHORD THEORY AND PRACTICE
Building Chords Based on Scales
Moving from Chord to Chord
The Dilemma of Becoming a Musician, Rather than Just a Guitar Player

CHAPTER TWO: MOVABLE SHAPES, PART ONE - THE BARRE CHORD
What Is a Movable Chord Shape?
Why Barre Chords are Useful
Fig. 13: An Exercise to Get You Ready for Barre Chords
Where Do Barre Chords Come From

CHAPTER THREE: INTRODUCING THE "5" CHORD
The Origin of the Power Chord
Playing Power chords - Part One
Open "Five" Chords
An Introduction to Inversions and "Slash" Chords Through the "Five" Chord
Using Open 5ths and 4ths as Harmonized Melody Notes
Other Intervals That Can Function as Chords

CHAPTER FOUR: MOVABLE SHAPES, PART TWO - PLAYING TRIADS
Introducing the "Little Self-Contained Chord Shape" on Three Adjacent Strings
Harmonizing the Major Scale
Harmonizing the Harmonic Minor Scale
Constructing Tertiary Triads with a Chart
Inversions of Tertiary Triads
Traditional Voice-Leading of Tertiary Triads
Open Voicings
A Suspension of Tertiary Belief:
A Brief Introduction to the Curious sus2 and sus4 Chords
Another Kind of Chord Construction: Quintal and Quartal Chords

CHAPTER FIVE: SEVENTH CHORDS
Snowmen with Four Body Parts
Naming and Dissecting Seventh Chords in the Major Tonality
Naming and Dissecting Seventh Chords in the Harmonic Minor Tonality
Open-Position Seventh Chords
Deriving Seventh Chords from Basic Movable Triad Shapes
All Possible Closed-Voicing Seventh Chords in Root Position
Practical Fingerings for Seventh Chords
Seventh Chords as Slash Chords
As Long as We're on the Topic of Slash Chords
Inversions, Voicings, Harmonized Scales and Etudes for Seventh Chords
The Strength and Sizzle of the Dominant Seventh Chord
Modes: What They Are and How to Establish Them

CHAPTER SIX: THE "COLOR" NOTES
Introducing 6, add2, add9, and add4
Adding the 6th to Chords in the Major Tonality
Adding the 6th to Chords in the Harmonic Minor Tonality
Sixth Chords in Open Position
All Possible Closed-Voicing Sixth Chords in Root Position
A Harmonized Scale and Two Etudes for Sixth Chords
Adding the 2nd or the 9th to Chords in the Major Tonality
Adding the 2nd or the 9th to Chords in the Harmonic Minor Tonality
Add2 and Add9 Chords in Open Position
Common and Uncommon Add2 and Add9 Chords - Practical Fingerings
Inversions, Voicings, Harmonized Scales, and Etudes for Add2 and Add9 Chords
Adding the 4th to Chords in the Major Tonality
Adding the 4th to Chords in the Harmonic Minor Tonality
Add4 Chords in Open Position
Common and Uncommon Add4 Chords - Practical Fingerings
Inversions, Voicings, Harmonized Scales, and Etude for Add4 and Add#4 Chords

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Big Numbers - 9, 11, 13 and "Alt" Chords
Snowmen with Five or More Body Parts
Introducing the Thirteenth Chord
Naming and Dissecting Ninth Chords in the Major Tonality
Naming and Dissecting Ninth Chords in the Harmonic Minor Tonality
Open Position Ninth Chords
All Possible Closed-Voicing Ninth Chords in Root Position
A Ninth Chord Cookbook: Inversions
Another Ninth Chord Cookbook: Baking Altered Dominant Ninth Chords from Friendly Ninth Chords
Two Etudes for Ninth Chords
The Knotty Problems of Eleventh Chords
The Theoretical Limit of Tertiary Construction: the Thirteenth Chord
Naming and Playing Thirteenth Chords in the Major Tonality
Naming and Playing Thirteenth Chords in the Harmonic Minor Tonality
Adding the 9th to the Most Common Thirteenth Chords
What Is an "Alt" Chord?
An Etude for Extended Chords

POSTLUDE