Chord Chemistry by Ted Greene Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Chord Chemistry
Book Review: Open your world
Summary: 5 Stars
This book will open your world regarding chord relationships
and give you great ideas. It will help you improve your understanding
of the guitar.
Book Review: Originality scores it a five
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone who has played guitar for any extensive amount of time knows that there are way too may chord encyclopedias and scale manuals out there. I wish I could give this chord -theory- book a 4.7 as some of the chords presented are nearly impossible to play. However, that is my only complaint. This book has easy to read chord diagrams and a really nice, comprehensive write up of HOW to use the chords effectively. The Chord Substitutions and Moving Voices sections are especially worthwhile. This is a book you'll probably read/use for a long time to come. I can't even imagine that Greene had all this stuff integrated into his playing. I am off to buy Greene's other harmony-based book, Modern Chord Progressions!Book Review: Simply Stunning!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the greatest books ever to focus on chords and there relation to each other.I was pointed in the direction of this book by no other than Steve Vai who recommended this book from his website,i have to say i thought i knew some chords untill i got this book.The possibilities with the voicings and inversions are endless. One of the things i like about this book in particular is that the specific chords are grouped together with numerous voicings.Everything is explained in tremendous detail,i think that's it!Go buy this book your chordal knowledge will be turned inside out.Book Review: Systematics of Chord Substitution--Very Helpful
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book in the '70s, when I was trying to be a self-taught rock guitarist. It was initially very helpful because of its basic explanation of chord theory--this really advanced my understanding of music in general and the guitar in particular. It also got me interested in jazz, though I didn't really understand much of what he was talking about. Now I play jazz guitar, and this book has been very helpful to me. The book contains pages and pages of different inversions of different chord types, and when you first open the book you might think this is the point, but it's not. The point of the book is found in the sections on chord theory that follow those diagrams. Here Ted Greene gives a very helpful analysis of the principles of chord substitution--these are the basics of jazz guitar comping (accompaniment) and also solo playing. Along with his discussion of the theory, Ted Greene gives many sample ways of playing the things he's discussing, and these are very valuable chord sequences (worth memorizing). My copy of this book is mostly worn out from years of turning the pages, and I can largely chart my musical education in terms of when I digested various parts of this book. It's a book for serious study, but if you're into that, I recommend it highly. His two volumes on single-note soloing are also extremely helpful.Book Review: Ted Greene 's chord chemistry
Summary: 5 Stars
There is a lifetime of info in this book, geared more for jazz though.