Chord Cookbook explores several of the
most powerful polyphonic wonders of the guitar – chord systems, flavors and
applications. The creative resource and firepower of Chord Cookbook will
feed you flurries of ideas for vamps, original songs and arrangements.
Chord Cookbook takes your ears to school so that you can identify chord
“flavors” and systems when listening to or learning your favorite tunes. But
that’s just the start. The real firepower behind Chord Cookbook is how the
course presents and organizes chord systems and applications to teach you
the how, why, what and when for
performance, accompaniment, composition and arrangement applications.
Chord Cookbook is an unusual course of study. You’ll likely grow accustomed
to referencing Chord Cookbook frequently (although this course is NOT a
chord dictionary). There’s no real beginning or end – you’re encouraged to
start your exploration anywhere within the course. And while Chord Cookbook
is not a methodology, there’s an underlying organization of material,
ranging from the theoretical to the practical, which connects it all in a
very logical and cognitive way. In short, Chord Cookbook guides your
selection and application of chords to “flavor” the songs you play, arrange
and write.
Your exploration takes you through 35 categories of chord systems and
flavors with performance examples, breakdowns, theoretical analysis and an
extensive compendium
of reference charts and related information.
You’ll learn how to apply open position chords up the neck, barre chords
without the barre, closed voicings, pedal tones in chord progressions,
counterpoint, contrary motion and melodic movement, inversions, triads,
power chord triads and ways to expand them, quartal harmony and dozens of
other approaches. You’ll also learn to classify chords by their “flavor” to
make it easier to recognize chords used by your favorite artists.
All of these concepts are covered, demonstrated and analyzed in depth. Chord
Cookbook focuses primarily on rock, rhythm and blues and popular music.
All of the performance examples are notated and tabbed. Plus, chord diagrams
are superimposed on the screen in sync with all 35 performance examples.
Practice rhythm tracks are also included so that you can practice the
examples and create your own flavors and compositions.
The 100-page PDF reference manual supplements Chord Cookbook with chord
grids, tab, standard notation and formulas for all 35 categories of chords and
also includes a set of harmonic and melodic
tricks that you can use to extend the chords and create chord progressions.
Dutch recording artist and top European guitar educator, Matthieu Brandt,
has invested several years’ researching and compiling the curriculum for
Chord Cookbook. Brandt, who also authored TrueFire’s highly popular Jump
Blues and Slap, Frail and Thump courses, is considered one of the most
thorough, creative and insightful educators in the biz.
Chord Cookbook
is optimized for intermediate to advanced players and is presented across 4
interactive video software CD-ROMs (Windows and Mac compatible).
TrueFire's video
lesson player features high-quality wide screen video, looping, slow
motion, full-screen zoom, tuner, metronome, keyboard shortcuts and other handy controls.
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System Requirements
This course is presented in
cross-platform Flash with PDF and MP3 elements.
Interactive Video
or
performance, accompaniment, composition and arrangement applications. 
of reference charts and related information.
