Moveable Chords: A Systematic Approach to Building a Comprehensive Chord Vocabulary (The Progressive Guitarist Series)

If you need to learn new voicings for jazz chords and you are an intermediate player who already understands chord theory and you can digest material like this without thinking you have to conquer the entire thing, this book is for you. Not all of the voicings are practical, or even playable, honestly, and if you don’t know how chords are formed and how they work in functional harmony, this book won’t be super helpful. But if you know what you need and what you can do with it, this book is super.

Easy to follow - it did come in handy

I bought this at the behest of my guitar teacher, mainly as a reference source. Latarski catalogs a large number of chord shapes for a large number of chord types, particularly jazz chords. The book provides only minimal guidance on how to use the material, which makes it seem like it's meant to be used in conjunction with lessons and not by itself. Of course, if you're already an intermediate or advanced guitarist, the large number of options it provides will enable you to add more color and variety to your chord progressions.The main point that's missing from the intro material is that it's often not necessary to use the complete fingering of a given chord shape. Omitting some of the strings can make some of the almost unrealistically finger-busting shapes much more playable.

This group of books written by Don are my favorite guitar theory books. Practical and straight forward , if you are sick of books you're using pick these they are highly educational for taking your playing to a higher level or for intermediate to advanced to even begining teaching.

This is for advanced musicians. There are no instructions for understanding this system.

One of my favorite Don Latarski books

Great!

Good book

Movable Chords und Chord Orbits sind die besten Referenzen neben Troy Stetinas Barre Chords, die ich kenne. Kein "Hunderttausend Akkorde f.d. Schlaggitarre" mehr. Während Stetina schon die Akkorde von ihrem Aufbau her und den Typen analog zu CAGED (E-Type, A-Typ etc.) auflisted, bringen diese beiden Bücher einen wesentlichen anderen Aspekt mit - das Intervall. Wenn ich Akkorde als Arpeggien spielen will, muss ich wissen, welches Intervall wo sitzt, da die Intervalle in den wenigsten Fällen aufsteigend sind. Ausserdem kann ich Akkorde im Spiel selbst "bauen", wenn ich die Intervallstruktur kenne. Und jeder weiss (oder sollte es wissen), dass man z.B. eine pentatonik jederzeit um die Töne der zugehörigen Akkorde erweitern kann. Also unbedingt kaufen - die sind ihr Geld Wert.

This is avery good series of books so really to get the best out of them you need to buy all 7 of them

Nice chord book!