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by Tobe a. Richards (Author)
The Colombian Tiple Chord Bible, with its 2,880 chords offers a complete solution for both beginner and experienced professional musician alike. The layout is uncomplicated and follows a logical musical progression from standard major chords up to the more esoteric thirteenths used by many jazz players. To accompany the 2,880 chords, a further 1,152 possible moveable chord configurations are included, together with a useful range of slash chords, reflecting the popularity of this type of chord in many of today's artist and compilation topline songbooks. This highly comprehensive guide provides the musician with no fewer than 36 different types of chord in all twelve keys and both tunings (traditional CEAD and modern DGBE), making it the definitive publication for the Colombian tiple. Whether you play folk, rock, pop, jazz or any other type of popular music, The Colombian Tiple Chord Bible makes the ideal reference source for all occasions. Chords covered in The Colombian Tiple Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C, Cm, C-5, Cdim, C4, C5, Csus2, Csus4, Csus4add9, C+, C6, Cadd9, Cadd11, Cm6, Cmadd9, C6add9, Cm6add9, Cdim7, C7, C7sus2, C7sus4, C7-5, C7+5, C7-9, C7+9, Cm7, Cm7-5, Cm(maj7), Cmaj7, Cmaj7-5, Cmaj7+5, C9, Cm9, Cmaj9, C11, C13. Major Slash Chords covered in The Colombian Tiple Chord Bible (using the key of C as an example): C/C, C/Db, C/D, C/Eb, C/E, C/F, C/F#, C/G, C/Ab, C/A, C/Bb, C/B. Beside the many pages of chord boxes or windows, the book features useful sections on tuning, chord construction, fingerboard layout, FAQs, alternative chord naming, fingering, slash chords, harmonic intervals, chord window blanks for transcribing your own favorite chord sequences, guitar family factfile etc. The aim of this guide is to provide the musician with the flexibility only really offered to guitar and keyboard players in the past. Now, with the help of The The Colombian Tiple Chord Bible, musicians will be able to pick up any songbook and instantly have access to even the most complex and advanced chords.
Author Biography
Tobe Richards has over thirty years experience of chord theory and playing various fretted musical instruments. He's also studied design for four years in the late seventies and early eighties, combining the two disciplines to produce comprehensive, yet easily accessible musical instruction guides for the last ten years. His books are currently being used all around the world by musicians as the popular go-to guides for fretted instruments.
