Chord Progressions for Guitarists
You probably know the chords to dozens of songs, and every one of them is memorised separately. This book shows you what they have in common, so the next song you learn makes sense before you’ve finished playing it through.
ONCE YOU SEE THE NUMBERS, YOU STOP MEMORISING THE CHORDS.
Most theory books give you rules. This one gives you repetition.
The usual approach is to explain the whole system up front: keys, scale degrees, functions, cadences. Then you’re left to apply it to real songs yourself. Most people never do, so the theory never gets past the page.
This book flips it. You get the handful of rules you actually need, briefly. Then every chapter takes one progression and pulls it apart. By the time you’ve worked through them all, reading a progression is something you do without thinking about it.
Three parts, the same way every chapter.
The basic rules, up front
Just enough to number chords and recognise what each one is doing. No wall of theory before you get to play anything.
One progression per chapter
Starting with I–IV–V and building up to analysing a whole song: what’s there, why it works, and what you could add or take away.
Decode it
Each chapter ends with progressions for you to work out yourself. The answers are at the back, so you can check your thinking, not just your memory.
Show the answer
It’s the same progression as the A–G–D–A at the top of the page, moved to a different key. That’s the point: learn the numbers once and every key works the same way.
What you’ll be able to do
Players who know chords and want to know what’s going on underneath.
It’s pitched so you can pick it up straight after the first two books in the series. If you can play the common open and barre chords and you’ve got a rough idea what a key is, you’re ready.
Chord Progressions for Guitarists
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