Greg Howard's Chord Compendia, of common bass and melody chords

for Classic, Matched Reciprocal, Baritone Melody and Raised Matched Reciprocal tunings

These free downloadable pdfs show you how to find all the common chords on both the bass and lemody side of the Stick in the four most common tunings. Chords are arranged alphabetically by oot note, beginning with Ab through A, Bb B, C, Db, etc.  Click the thumbnail below to view or download the pdf for your tuning.


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Each root note is shown for a given range of bass and melody strings.

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A wide variety of major, minor, 7th and other chords and inversions are shown for each root note. This example shows several melody triads and their inversions in A (Example for the Classic and Raised Matched Reciprocal tunings).

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