Piano and Keyboard Chords: Easy to Use, Easy to Carry, One Chord on Every Page

As a keyboard player, even if you only ever play single-note solos, it is essential that you know your chords - they are the building blocks behind all musical compositions. All melodies have their roots in chords and chordal progressions. The main part of the book provides one chord per page for easy reference, and includes hundreds of chords suitable for many different styles of music. At the end of the book you'll find some first inversions of the basic major and minor triads. The keyboard diagrams will help you to learn the shapes of hundreds of chords, and will be a useful reference guide when you are playing and composing your own music. this is by no means a comprehensive manual, but should provide enough chord formations to keep even the most advanced musician busy!

Jake Jackson's publications, as writer, editor or contributor, include The Beginner's Guide to Reading Music, How to Play Classic Riffs and Play Flamenco. As guitarist and songwriter he has been in a few bands, including Slice, The Harmonics and Starbank and has studied a form of Flamenco guitar. Although Jake has a range of fine guitars in his house his favourite music software is Sibelius and, having worked with Cubase for many years, is now moving over to Logic Pro.