Chord Voicings - HELP!

**iancohen82** · Apr-11-2012, 1:30pm

Does anyone know of a music book that shows different chord voicings for mandolin in an easy to understand format? Such as:

A with the root in the bass (graphic)

A with the third in the bass (graphic)

A with the fifth in the bass (graphic).

I have the Mel Bay Deluxe book, but it's not incredibly helpful in the way the chords are grouped.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

**OldSausage** · Apr-11-2012, 1:31pm

Try this page:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/.../ch.pl?chord=A

This one's more comprehensive:

http://mandolinchords.net/chords/root/a/major/

**robert.najlis** · Apr-11-2012, 1:37pm

Mike Marshall has a DVD all about this. I highly recommend it.

**geoffreymbrown** · Apr-11-2012, 2:48pm

There are a couple of nice pdfs floating around of 3-note chords

This one by Charlie Jones is pretty exhaustive ( the first page may be what you want)

http://jazzmando.com/tips/archives/p...ote-Chords.pdf

This one by Don Julin is nicely concise:

http://www.donjulin.com/Lessons_file...n%20chords.pdf

Geoffrey

**JeffPedErp** · Apr-11-2012, 8:30pm

I like Gordon Stobbe's book

Mandolin Chordology

http://www.fiddlebooks.com/bookcontent15.html

I take lessons from him and find the book very logical and easy to follow.

Jeff

**MandoSquirrel** · Apr-12-2012, 5:35pm

Niles Hokkanen(mandocrucian) published a comprehensive little book on chords, their construction, use & whatever else.You can get it through him, or, I think Elderly carries it.

**Ben Milne** · Apr-13-2012, 1:45am

For those with an iPhone, the Basichords app is great or this purpose. Easily flip between multiple voicings of your chosen chord, with R,3,5 etc listed beneath the diagram.
Oh and NFI, just find it a great app.

**mandroid** · Apr-13-2012, 10:16am

Got one from Oak publ, 30 years ago. had chords for several instruments in it.

Music Theory for Modern Mandolin is a thick Tome.,
but will be a resource book, for your career.