Cipher Chord Encyclopedia (Samples of the chord encyclopedia plates from the book)         Select Chord Major triad minor triad -------------------- minor 7th Dominant 7th -------------------- Beginners Chords     See the regions of correspondence graphic below.     Chords by size triads   sevenths Major   minor 7th minor   Dominant 7th           The book contains explanatory text and illustrations — and of course the full set of charts including all triads, 6ths, 7ths, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords. Given that your pace will be so accelerated using the Cipher System, beyond covering and translating the elements of music theory and the guitar fretboard, the book contains copious reference charts and an exceptionally well designed encyclopedia of guitar chords for later every day use. Some people will say that we already have enough books and web sites about guitar chords. While I’d agree on one hand, the chord charts included  are unique in every way and rendered of course using both chromatic and diatonic formula numbers. The Cipher’s Chord Encyclopedia are the chord charts I wish I had when I first started playing guitar — and they’re the ones I still use whenever I need a quick and comprehensive all keys reference. Here I’ll give you the plates for the four most commonly used chords in music: Major, Minor, Dominant 7th, and minor 7th. That way, everyone will have access to the most  essential set of tools — whether they buy the book someday or not. See the regions of correspondence graphic below. Also included are three pages of basic guitar chords. This is a set of beginner chord charts of open position chords (chords on the first three frets) and basic barre chords. The basic guitar chords set is available in PFD for printing.       Figure 1             The CAGED system If you look at any fully mapped fretboard you’ll see the 5 common chord shapes that arise from it naturally and inescapably. Those 5 shapes are  the basis of the Caged System you’ll often hear references to in the guitar community. Yes, the “Regions of Correspondence” chart above and the one below are essentially the same. Like I said, the 5 “caged” chord shapes (and their sequence) are inescapable and unavoidable. This is coincidental here however. I designed my chord charts to show 50/50 above and below the Rooting Center, plus a little extra of the pattern at the bottom so you can see the repeats. This puts C on the top and D at the bottom, as you can see. C and D are also actually parts of the same single shape if you look closely. Incidentally, my chord charts (and the Cipher System itself) were designed in the summer of 1984. Bill Edwards’ book, was first published in some form  in 1984 (as far as I can ascertain, with distribution and availability uncertain), as ”The Rock Book for Guitar Players” which (I gather) became “Fretboard Mechanics:The Caged system” in 1987” and finally rolled up into “Fretboard Logic” in 1989. I never saw any of his books, but something must have been “in the air” right around then ;’) i.e. 1984.  No matter, even he conceeds that “The chordal aspect had been termed the CAGED System before I was born”. Here’s an interview with Bill Edwards if you’re interested. You can also get his book there (at his web site).             Up to Top of page