Alternate Tuning Chord Dictionary: A Complete Reference to Over 7,000 Chords

a lot of cords to learn to play from if your going to play alternate guitar tuning .

Until it arrived, I wasn't sure what to expect, as I've purchased a few chord dictionaries. This is pretty much what it says. It is a complete (or near complete) reference for chords in open tunings. I would like to see a section on common positions for several tunings and tuning groupings with common finger positions that make chords.It could also be expanded to include partial capo chord positions.

I'm really just scratching the surface but the overall impression is Well Done. This contains much more than pictures of chords. The author delves into Chord construction and theory than is easier to comprehend than other books I've read. I've done drop D tuning for years, but now I know why it works and have retuned another guitar to open G for experimenting. If you want to know about this stuff, this is a good way to find out. I'm still no rock star - so I'd better go practice now.

I recently purchased a 12-string guitar and found that it really comes alive when using alternate tunings. The problem was..... not knowing the proper fingering for chords in those altered tunings! This book really fits the bill for me. It is very comprehensive and well laid out, IMO! If you're wanting to experiment "away from standard tuning", this will probably help. Recommended!

I'm a guitarist that uses the double drop D tuning a lot and this book has 24 pages of DDD chords and that's the best I've found so far.

this is a nice tool if you are trying to learn alternative tuning. I play almost exclusively in Open E now and this has helped me a lot with learning chords.

i usually play Nationals in open tunings and this is the best reference i've found , especially in my own comps. a thesaurus of open chords

More chords than you can shake a stick at

Excellent book for guitar enthusiasts.

Well, this is for someone who don’t want to spend their time figuring out the chords theoretically. I think it’s awesome because I’m older now and it speeds things along for me. It’s layed out pretty good, just work with and you will be playing chords in whatever tuning you choose quickly. With the money.

This is a real fine dictionary for alternate Tunings with diagrams for finger positionning and fretboard markings, it holds 60 chords per tuning and a easy fretboard diagram for you to learn how to tune and to learn where the notes are on the fingerboard.There are hours of learning as you go from chapter to chapter, it will be usefull to keep track of what guitar is tuned in what tuning it does get a little overwhelming at first because the learning curbe is so fun.I enjoy this book as i do learning new things on guitar...next step the capo.Dan

This includes ten open tunings, drop D, double drop D, Dsus4, open D, open G, Gm, A, E, Em, C and includes 30 common chords in two fret positions on a double page spread for each note in each tuning. The layout seems a bit random starting off with major and minor mixed on each page and variants of 7th dotted about. But having said that, their position is constant throughout the book (m11 always on last column on second row on second page). This is very clear and a good starting place to explore open tunings.My first copy fell apart due to faulty binding but was quickly replaced by amazon.

As a chord dictionary this is great but the reason for only 3 stars? In my opinion every different tuning chapter should have a chart of all the most common chords in that tuning. For example, if I'm playing in Open C tuning it's great to have the 2 pages of C chords, 2 pages of D flat chords etc., but it would be 5 stars if there was a chart of all the most common chords on one or two pages for each tuning so that you don't have to scour the whole chapter for your next chord.