Besides learning what the common progressions are, you’ll learn how to play with the progressions. This means learning what chords can substitute for other chords, and what chords go together. This information will let you play one song in many, many different ways, to make the song sound new each time you play it. There are a couple of things that will help you before you begin reading this book. It would help if you’ve read the free ebook “Playing Guitar: a Beginner’s Guide,” which you can download from www.MaximumMusician.com. That ebook introduces you to the notes of the guitar, some basic chords, and other fundamentals that we don’t cover in this book. It’s important to know, for example, that the fifth fret of the fifth string is a D. If you don’t know this, there’s a chart at the end of the Playing Guitar book that lists the notes on the guitar