This book teaches the building blocks to play or create your own music. The learning system which includes the book, 2 CDs and 24/7 online lesson support has been designed by guitarist John McCarthy to teach you over five hundred of the most important chords to play any genre of music. Each chord is shown with player's perspective view, front view and tablature to assure that you get the finger position correct. You will also learn the chord formulas used to create each chord so you can develop your own inversions. There is a section that shows all the chord scale formulas for creating your own progressions. This will help teach you how to put chords together to write your own songs. With the MP3 files included on the two CDs, you get to hear every note of the chords picked and strummed. Play them on your computer or any common MP3 playback device. As a bonus, once you register for your free lifetime membership to www.rockhousemethod.com, you will gain access to the music and backing tracks for seventeen of the most used progressions of all time for you to play. You can download them for free, burn them to a CD for use with the complete chord progressions in this book.