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- ISBN13: 9780634049019
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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.
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Summary: Excellent book for learning a few tricks to navigate the fretboard!
I like the workbook style of this book. Very easy and understandable for beginners and pros.
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Summary: Excellent book
I am a player of over 12 years now and finally realized that it was time I get serious about this instrument. Up to this point, I was able to sit with a program and learn songs at half speed and "knew" my scales but whenever I sat down with a jam track it just sounded like noodling. I could play some fairly complicated tracks but when asked to produce something myself all that came out was some scales and, at best, some quotes from other songs. I wanted to break this barrier and having studied music years before had a strong feeling my lack of theory was the disconnect.
You can learn scale shapes but without theory they sound lame. You can learn chords but need some theory to give them direction. This book forces you to learn the fretboard (something I never bothered with beyond the 6th and 5th string), learn the CAGED method (I taught myself the three note per string shapes), Pentatonic and Major scale shapes in CAGED, focusing not on shapes but the notes contained and where within those shapes, intervals, arpeggios and from that point on more heavy duty stuff.
This book isn't a learn licks book, instead it really teaches you your instrument. It sounds cliche, but this book has really opened up the guitar as well as made the scales much more applicable and understandable. Forcing you to use the arpeggios allows you to find notes of the progression within the scale and transform your solo from noodling to solid harmony.
While this book isn't the magic bullet that will solve all of your problems most people here have, correctly, identified that this is the critical step from intermediate into advanced player. If you spend the time with this book and literally think about it during your free time to conceptualize and internalize the information, it breaks down most of the barriers in your playing. After this book, many things will make more sense and suddenly lick books, your favorite songs and other additional teachings will mean much more to you. For this reason, I am happy to have read and practiced the teachings of this book and recommend it highly.
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Summary: Fantastic
Sorry my Portuenglish.
I recommend this product. It's fantastic if you are'nt a full time guitar student, but likes this instrument end decided to play it until the end (and I'm talking about the the real end).
The five paterns and the lessons are fantastic. If you follow it you will memorize the fretboard and also learn to find the notes if you forgot something.
But, if you buy it, go step by step and moves to a new lesson just when you have the previous fresh on memory. It must occur also when the book says to keep some practices in parallel. Do it step by step.
I also recommend buying some little round adesives (sticks) to fix on the fretboard (7th fret, 3rd string, D=red). It helped me a lot.
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Summary: Excellent Book
i am a beginning guitar player. i started reading books on how to play guitar about 6 months ago. this book really helped me to figure out the fretboard. at first, i was very intimidated to play. with the help of this book, my understanding has increased tremendously. everything is explained well. i have bought alot of how to books and this one is near the top of my list.
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Summary: Great Foundation
This book is 22 chapters. It starts with very basic single string study and quickly gets into scales, chords and arpeggios. It categorizes most every combination. The fun part is that you are filling in the dots in the diagram. It feels like solving crosswords. There is minimal writing by the author which is good. It is mostly work out on your part. The correct answers are printed in the index. The last exercise is basically review of everything. It took me over two years to finish this thin book. I gave it five star because I liked this workbook a lot and learned too much from it so gave two extra copies to my buddies. I am now keeping it as a reference book.
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