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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 781 EAN: 9780634049019 ISBN: 0634049011 Label: Musicians Institute Press Manufacturer: Musicians Institute Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 80 Publication Date: 2003-08-01 Publisher: Musicians Institute Press Studio: Musicians Institute Press
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Editorial Reviews: Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easy-to-use book! Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A hands-on guide to theory, it will help you learn to build any scale or chord on your own and unleash creativity. No music reading is required.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A very informative book but has some omissions... Comment: I am new to the guitar and wanted to get up to speed as quickly as possible by learning the fretboard and the relationship of notes and scales up and down the neck. I am often impatient with mundane workbooks of any kind, but so far, the time investment in this book has been worth it. There is (what I consider to be) a serious omission between the first six chapters and the seventh chapter. All of a sudden the exercises ask you to label the pentatonic box shape numbers (1-5) on the fretboard diagram without any previous reference or explanation of what these box shapes are. To a beginner such as myself, this was very confusing. Luckily, I had a few other guitar theory books on hand that illustrated the concept, so I was able to move forward. There is still a ton of useful information in this book, but be prepared when you get to chapter seven and feel momentarily lost. Please note that the answers to all exercises are printed in the back of the book, but an explanation of the pentatonic scale shapes should have been included at the beginning of chapter 7. Customer Rating: Summary: another great MI title! Comment: from a purely academic perspective, a guitarist would have a hard time doing better than this bk. like building a wall brick by brick, every chapter adds to the last, re-enforcing the previous lessons as they are applied to new ones. this allows one to build a strong foundation from which to expand understanding of the mechanics of guitar theory and how to apply that info in a functional way. the amazon entry is a "look inside" type, so I won't go into the specifics. it's pretty self-explanatory. for me, approaching this info as a lifetime player looking to fill in gaps in fundamentals, a workbook like this was exactly what I needed. if you're serious about your obsession, you will benefit from this book Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent systematic method for learning the fretboard Comment: I have been fascinated by the guitar for over 20 years. As such, I have built up a large library of lessons in various forms. This workbook has pulled many concepts that I have found in disparate sources and coalesced them into one place. My only slight criticism is that the basic music theory involved with learning the fretboard is not in as much depth as I would like. Consequently, I understand some of the confusion noted in other reviews. I encourage beginners to stick with it because being able to break free of the tyranny of the first position will inspire you to further heights no matter what musical style you play. My recommendation for more in-depth music theory for guitar would be the Guitar Grimoire series by Adam Kadmon. Example: The Guitar Grimoire- A Notated Intervallic Study Of Scales Customer Rating: Summary: The fretboard is your friend Comment: I have an entire bookcase full of music theory books and how to play the guitar. Not one of them has approached the topic like this book does. I would not recommend this book for beginners who don't have a teacher or mentor. Sort of like trying to visualize driving a car by looking at the mechanical pieces. You need a foundation for it to really start turning the gears (IMHO). But for people like me who have played for 25 years but are tired of memorizing the different scales and chords and feeling "boxed in", now I can 'go anywhere I want', this book was absolutely FREEING for me. I now can choose any note, make it my root (regardless of the key), know where all the other roots are and create a scale (Major, Minor, Pent etc) on the fly and even alter or bounce between them! I no longer care (or even know) what key I am in, everything is a half or whole step or several combined for interval playing, but everything sounds good and related and I can change direction on any note. This has been the 'lightbulb' for me. The Fretboard IS laid out with a logic and a purpose that I never fully understood until reading this book. Like the author pointed out, each string is like a keyboard with all the notes laid out. We need to understand how one string relates to the next. I look at the neck very differently and can now see the notes that are related to the one I am playing and make a choice depending on feel and emotion I want to impart, I am not 'limited' to the scale, and everything makes sense! Highly recommended. Customer Rating: Summary: Guitar Fretboard Workbook Works Comment: This is an excellent overview of the guitar fretboard. Very helpful and easy to follow. I learned a lot in a short amount of time. More Reviews