What makes The Guitar Book: Volume 1 different? More often than not, traditional chord "dictionaries" go for quantity over quality. You know the ones-they gleefully proclaim to have "over 2,500 chords inside!" The problem is, many of these chord shapes sound awful, are too difficult to play, or both. Enter The Guitar Book: Volume 1! Covering nearly 100 pages, Volume 1 contains an abundance of easy-to-play chord shapes.