by Ulf G. Anslund Back Pocket guitar U.S. $2.95ABOUT THE AUTHOR we rT He teaches, composes, arranges, plays the guitar. He teaches guitar teachers at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. He has his own deas about how to teach music and the guitar. His deas have made him what he is. Once he was a miner in the far north of Sweden, beyond the Arctic Circle. There was no one to teach him music, so he taught himself. Then he went to a music academy, became a concert soloist, studied top-level music, lectured, played chamber music, composed. Today UIf Goran Ahslund is known internationally as a superb teacher at the most sensitive of all levels—the very beginning. He is a star on both ‘Swedish and British TV. His TV course ‘Play Guitar’ attracted a mass public. Why? Because to learn from Ulf Goran is like play: ing a game. And the viewers—all sorts of viewers—switched on to watch. Soon hundreds of thousands of them were holding guitars in their hands, saying ‘Look, I've made it!’Bac t 5500 GUITAR CHORDS guitar by Ulf G. Anslund This chord dictionary shows you how to take a few basic chord shapes and move them up and down the neck to derive new chords. Many new chords can be played from variations on the simple openposition chords, such as E, G,C, A, 0, that you alteady know. This book will give you aocess to over 5500 guitar chords. | hope it will give you both the principles and the inspiration to explore the Qa, 4 Regd CONTENTS 2 DIAGRAM WITH CHORD 26 22 716 32 95 ais SYMBOLS AND FRET NUMBER 13 me 23 Maj 7 34 925 @ 139 4 HOW TO READ THE DICTIONARY 14 6/9 24 m Maj 7 35 316 ben 5 HOW TOUSE THIS DICTIONARY 15 7 25 Mal 7-5 36 Maj 9 ‘44 FROM MOVABLE CHORD. 8 NOTES OF THE FRETBOARD. 18 m7 26 sim 37 +8 (-10) SHAPES TO ZEHO-POSITION 7 Major 17 susy 289 45 EXAMPLES OF CHORO-SHAPES 8 Minor 1875 29 95,045 IN ZERO-POSITION 9 Sus mrs 309 46 CONSTRUCTION OF CHORDS 10 +5 B75 Bt mo