#Contents of Chord Building Manual, Part only:-
#Sample of Glossary of Musical Terms Section 31
#Local Newspaper articles on 'No More Chord Books'
How to build thousands of Chord Diagrams in any
key throughout the guitar fret board using chord window diagrams.
When you
have mastered the contents of this manual, you will not need chord books to show
you the fret board fingering of chords as you will have this knowledge yourself
to enable you to draw the chord window diagrams in several different forms. You
will also be able to understand why chords have the shapes and names they do.
All you
have to do is to link up the notes of any chord throughout your fret board chart
so that they form chord outlines which can be fingered and thereby giving you
several different shapes for the one chord which will greatly enhance your scope
for playing music. Find out inside how this is easily achieved and much more.
Note, this is not a manual about how
to play the guitar, there are enough books out there on this subject to sink the
Titanic or wall paper the Pentagon. It’s main focus is about how to design
your own chords and understand them.
Section
4
What is a Chord?
Section
5
Chord Formula Chart
Section
6
Major Scale Chart
Section
8
System for remembering sharps and flats
Section
10 Guitar
Fret Board Chart
Section
11 List
of 38 common chords
Section
12 Chord
Name Explanations
Section
13 Diatonic
Chord Scale Degree Chart in the key of C
Section
17 Questions
and Answers
Section
18 Interval/Chord
Chart
Section
19 How
to name any chord given it’s notes
Section
20 How
to allocate notes to any chord given it’s name.
Section
21 How
to design your own chord diagrams
Section
26 Blank
Chord Fret Board Window Practice Chart
Section
31 Glossary
of Musical Terms
Tom O’Connell, 5 Davitt Avenue, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
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As I have just launched this manual, it is only available in 4 local outlets in Clonmel and Fethard and they are:-
1) Eason and Son Ltd., 20 Gladstone Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary, tel 052-21943, Email easonmel@iol.ie website, www.eason.ie
2) Premier Music Store, 58 O'Connell Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary, tel 052-29811.
3) Newports Newsagents, Main Street, Fethard, County Tipperary, tel 052-32337.
4) South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. Tel. 052-27877, Email stac@eircom.net website www.southtipparts.com
As soon as there are more stores stocking my manual I will update this space accordingly.
Sample of Glossary of Musical Terms Section 31
GUITAR CHORDS
Action Aeolian Mode Aeolian Scale Altered Chord Augmented Augmented Chord Barre Chord Blues Scale Broken Chord
Building Chords Chord Building Chord Family Chord Formula Chord Progression Chord Reading Chord Shape Chord Spelling
Chord Substitution Chord Sustain Chord Symbol Chord Tone Chord Voice Chord Voicing Chord Window Chart Chromatic Scale
Closed Voicing Constructing Chords Diad Chord Diatonic Chord Diatonic Harmony Diatonic Scale Diatonic Triad Diminished Chord
Diminished Interva Diminished Scale Diminished Seventh Diminished Triad Dominant Chord Dorian Mode Dorian Scale Double Stop
Finger Board Finger Pick Flat Pick Flat Picking Fret Board Fret board Action Fretting Hand Functioning Chord Guitar String Action
Guitar Tablature Half Beat Half Note Hammer On Harmonic Minor Scale Harmonic Progression Harmonize Harmony Home Chord
Improvise Inside Chord Interval Inversion Ionian Mode Ionian Scale Key Key Note Leading Note Lick Locrian Mode Locrian Scale
Lowered Lydian Mode Lydian Scale Major 3rd Interval Major 7th Interval Major Chord Major Scale Major Triad Measure
Melodic Minor Scale Minor 2nd Interval Minor Chord Minor Triad Mixolydian Mode Mobile Chord Modal Mode Moveable Chord
Music Theory Muted String Natural Harmonic Natural Minor Scale Octave Open Chord Open Note Open Triad Open Tuning Open Voicing
Passing Chord Pedal Point Pedal Tone Pentachord Pentatonic Minor Scale Pentatonic Scale Perfect 4th Interval Perfect 5th Interval
Perfect Pitch Phrygian Mode Pillar Chord Pitch Pivot Chord Polychord Pivot Note Plectrum Position Power Chord Primary Chord
Progression Pull off Quartal Chord Quintal Chord Relative Key Relative Minor Relative Tuning Riff Rolled Chord Root Note Scale
Scale Degrees Sequential Fingering Standard Tuning Static Chord Stationary Chord Step Sub Dominant Sub Mediant Supertonic
Suspended Chord Tablature Tertian Chord Tertian Harmony Tonal Centre Tone Colour Tonic Tonic Chord Transcription
Traveller Chord Triad Tuning Fork Unknown Chord Whole Step Whole Tone Whole Tone Scale.
Local Newspaper articles on 'No More Chord Books'
South Tipp Today, Clonmel Newspaper, 2 Joyces Lane, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland, tel 052-27342, Email stac@Eircom.net
Contact:- Tony Butler
Article 7th of July 2004:- Title:- 'No More Chord Books'
Tom O'Connell writes to tell me that he has been playing guitar on and off since the 60's, and although never in a band, or formerly studied music, was always confused by the thousands of chords with 'crazy ' sounding names which are featured in many chord books. Tom says its virtually impossible to remember the names and the fingerings of even a small fraction of these chords without hours and hours of daily practice.
About 3 years ago Tom decided to put together a book which would explain how to design your own chords similar to the chords featured in chord books, which resulted in his publication "NO MORE CHORD BOOKS" being completed recently and is now available in Easons, and Premier Music Store, Clonmel, and Newport's Newagency, Fethard. It will also be available by post. See his web site for more details on the book. http://homepage.eircom.net/~motoconnell/ E-Mail: motoconnell@eircom.net
Nationalist Newspaper Ltd., Clonmel Newspaper, Queen Street, Clonmel. tel 052-72500, Email info@nationalist.ie Web www.nationalist.ie
Contact:- Conor Kane, email:- ckane@nationalist.ie
Article 17th July 2004:- Title:- 'No more chord Books, as Tom shows budding musicians how'
As with any musical instrument, the guitar can be an intimidating beast when initially confronted by the first-time player, and too often people are put off by the amount of technical lingo and information which needs to be digested.
However, local man Tom O'Connell has done many potential players, and the guitar itself a great service by putting together a new book whose title suggests that it will be all that's needed by the guitar player, new or experienced
"No More Chord Books" is the result of three years of research and effort on the part of Tom, who lives at Davitt Avenue in Clonmel and has published the manual himself.
Tom has been playing the guitar on a casual basis on and off since the '60's' and admits to being befuddled by the thousands of chords and diagrams which are the staple of most instruction books.
"In my mind", he says, "it would be virtually impossible to remember the names and the fingerings of even a small fraction of these chords without hours and hoiurs of daily practice, and even then I would have no real understanding of why these chords were called these names and why they had their unique fingerings on the fret board."
This is what spurred him onto compiling his own book which has recently been completed. As the front cover indicates, it was mainly written for the benefit of relative beginners who wish to break from the mould of "memorising with little understanding" a few chords; and more accomplished guitar players who have a good musical ear but only a vague knowledge of chord construction, who would like to dramatically improve their knowledge.
The manual is in handy A4 format and contains easy-to-read charts on chords and scales; systems for remembering sharps and flats; explanations about the names of chords; and instructions on how to name any chord and how to allocate notes to a chord.
Any questions which arise from the book can be emailed to Tom and he will answer them on an ongoing basis on his website.
"No More Chord Books" is now available at Easons, Premier Music Store and the South Tipperary Arts Centre in Clonmel, and Newport's newsagents in Fethard. It can also be posted- for more details, see the website: http://homepage.eircom.net/~motoconnell/ or email motoconnell@eircom.net.
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Last revised date:- 080804, Sunday 5. 45 p.m.