The Chord Progression Codex
Have you ever heard a beautiful chord progression and wondered "...How could anyone write that?"
Wonder no more! The Chord Progression Codex is every modern musician's guide on ALL of the Chords, and how to use them.
What's Inside The Codex
This book can be read cover-to-cover as a complete course in modern harmony. It starts from the basics and builds up skills from there. It can also work as a wonderful reference for seasoned composers, providing helpful techniques, concepts, and real-world examples of complex chord movements.
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Digital + Physical
- ✓ Physical book with QR codes
- ✓ Digital access with navigation
- ✓ Printable PDF download
- ✓ eBook/ePub file included
- ✓ Save $15 vs buying separately
Physical Book
- ✓ 400+ page spiral-bound book
- ✓ QR codes for audio examples
- ✓ 30 chapters + reference index
- ✓ Physical reference for your library
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Digital Only
- ✓ Easy-to-navigate online access
- ✓ Embedded audio examples
- ✓ Downloadable PDF version
- ✓ Formatted eBook/ePub file
Preview The Digital Book!
Take a look inside the Digital Chord Progression Codex and learn basic music theory for free!
Here's a peek of what you'll get when you order the physical book. 400+ beautifully formatted pages, filled with charts, diagrams, connective text, and audio examples you can listen to by scanning each chapter's QR code.
Complete Curriculum
30 chapters + bonus materials • Fundamentals to advanced jazz harmony
+ Conclusion, Notable Chords & Progressions, Guitar Chord Charts
For Beginners Or Advanced Students
The Chord Progression Codex is perfect if you're brand new to music theory, but also makes a great detailed reference guide for experienced musicians and composers.
Teaches Music Theory
- ✓ Music theory fundamentals & intervals
- ✓ Triads, 7th, 9th, 11th & 13th chords
- ✓ Classical cadences and concepts
- ✓ Voicings and arranging techniques
- ✓ Modulations, modal mixture, and more
An Excellent Reference
- ✓ Explorations of each chord type
- ✓ Explanations of how unique chords are used
- ✓ Popular examples used for demonstration
- ✓ Helpful reference tables for advanced topics
- ✓ Detailed text connecting all concepts
Perfect For
Songwriters & Composers
Break out of repetitive patterns and write more interesting progressions
Guitarists & Pianists
Understand the theory behind your favorite songs and create your own
Music Students
Supplement your formal education with interactive, practical examples
Producers & Arrangers
Expand your harmonic vocabulary for more sophisticated productions
What Students Are Saying
Practical and Well Thought Out Course
This is a very well thought out music theory course. I have been mainly a self-taught musician over over 30 years and have tried other courses and books. This course explains very well HOW and WHY things go together. It has literally helped me immediately apply what I have learned to writing music and even arrangement and production. I highly recommend!
The course does an amazing job in explaining the content with multiple musical examples and with different perspectives
The course is very detailed. It also gives you enough information for you to know what to look for from outside sources. This is helpful as it gives you an orderly path to follow if you want to investigate/learn more about a chapter. I find this not only honest but a purposeful way of teaching. There are musical examples as embedded audio or songs links to YouTube.An absolute must have.
What I did not learn in many years playing guitar by myself, I learned it in a few weeks of studying with Jake
I did like everything. One of the most important features of this course is that I know where the material is and when I am not sure about something I am playing or trying to play, I can come back to this course and find what I need.The mix of the theory and and the feeling of the sounds is contagious.
Bottom line…excellent!
Lots to like about this work…One that I’ve never come across b4: hotlinks connected directly to the official song at the exact chord-progression point to hear the concept being discussed in that paragraph, and then, hit the back button to jump right back into the book without being distracted. Nice goin’Jake! 👍👏👊💪😎🎸
Best Explanation of Music Theory
It's the 3rd course I'm taking on the topic of music theory and chord progressions. I also watched many YouTube videos before. The previous courses allowed me to start producing music, but I still felt like doing it blindly. This course is exactly what I've been looking for. No rushing through the topic, everything is comprehensively explained. Definitely exceeded my expectations
The theory that all intermediate player need to know
This course links the theory and reasons why music sounds good and relates is to music that everybody knows. I am 60% of the course and will finished it!
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