Guitar Fretboard Workbook

This book is nothing short of amazing!!! I have been playing guitar for 20 years this month, and never took the time to learn much of the theory as it was always too much to memorize... Firstly, I recommend this book to the novice who just wants to learn a few songs just to impress some ladies - on up to the professional guitarists making a living on their 6 stringed' friend. Beginners: Don't be threatened. The first chapter is designed to get you familiar with the guitar. This book promises to make accomplished guitarists out of people first learning guitar within a year, and I believe with the discipline ANYONE can do it. Intermediate: This may be your next step to becoming one of the greats. This would have set me way above the rest of the students in all school and garage bands at my age. Advanced: (I consider myself to be between this and the next) It's not too late! You will make light work of this and jump leaps and bounds from where you left off. It will probably be most exciting for you. Professionals: You will already know a lot of this. This will help you fly through the book. By showing you shortcuts, you can access more notes, faster than you're able to drudge up from memorized scales and repetitive riffs. And of course one of the great things about being a good guitarist is being able to teach right!? This can be the ultimate workbook for your students. They will, (with your help) learn quickly too, and you may be able to expand your "skill range" of students you're able to teach. And your reputation will reflect. If you're anything like me, I can always use help with being more creative soloing and this book does that for me too. This book has ways, only for the guitar, to get around a lot of the boring parts of theory that you have to memorize. For example, instead of learning what note every fret is on the board one by one (which is important if you want to play professionally), this workbook shows you five simple patterns to memorize. You build on these patterns in each chapter until you can play any mode of any scale from anywhere on your guitar! You will automatically become familiar with the names and be able to figure out what every note is if you haven't yet memorized that the 2nd string 11th fret is a B flat. You'll learn everything you need to know about the fret board just by having fun with these root shapes and patterns. I learned to play by ear and over the first few years, I had been forced to memorize some of these root shapes, so I already knew somewhat of the importance of these patterns. I can and have jammed with some great musicians over the years, but one thing I felt I couldn't do very well was solo, unless I was familiar with the key and had memorized riffs I could slip into variations of the melody to sound good, and even then, I'll still hit an accidental and sound just as good as my one year old! I never took the time to memorize but a handful of scales; never enough to improvise or be creative with my solos. By getting familiar with these patterns and learning how they connect to each other and can be played everywhere, I found they would be the foundation to every chord, arpeggio, and scale that I did know and ever wanted to know!! You won't regret this creative way of looking at the relationships between the scales and arpeggios, and in a light funny way of presenting it to you. The book uses hands on, verbal exercises, and plenty of diagrams to show and explain to every kind of learner what exactly is happening in each chapter. Highly recommend!!!! Rob - Dadgigsopics

I can't speak highly enough of this workbook. Within 3 months of working with this book a little bit every day and practicing the concepts suggested, I was able to triple my working chord vocabulary up and down the neck at all fret positions, and without having to memorize a thousand new shapes. If you work meticulously through this book from beginning to end in small doses, your knowledge of the fretboard layout will expand significantly. This book teaches you WHERE THINGS ARE AND WHY THEY'RE THERE so that you can then take that knowledge and apply it to the things you're learning from a teacher or by yourself from a method book or youtube videos. This is a supplementary learn resource, NOT a guitar method book. It will NOT teach you how to solo, specific playing techniques, or how to play a certain style of music; that is not the purpose of this book and if that is what you seek then you should either find a guitar teacher or one of the many self-taught venues like online self-pace courses or a good guitar method book. that includes audio and video. What this book WILL do is help you expand your chord vocabulary and scale patterns so that you can break out of always playing chords at the first three frets because you don't know how else to play them. Been learning some soloing but you're stuck always soloing a pentatonic scale at the same fret position because you don't know where else to play something? This book will show you how to figure out where on the fretboard you can experiment with solo in the key you're playing in, and how to figure out the scale pattern you should be using in order to play at that location of the neck, and WHY you're now switching to this pattern instead of using a different pattern. Etc. It's a great book. As with anything else you'll only get out of it what you put in.

I've not yet this book for a year yet and it's literally reinventing me as a guitar player. I don't get nearly the time I'd like to practice/play so I need to make the most of it. I was initially self-taught and then did a private lessons for a few years prior to quitting due to health reasons. A few decades later the itch came back with a furry and I was determined not to squander it. I bought this book based on recommendations and am so glad I found it. The approach of this book assumes you're coming from nothing but motivation and the end looks darn scary to the likes of me, but I've seen nothing but steady forward progress that builds incrementally so that no step forward is too high to reach. The author has done an impeccable job of breaking down a complex subject and made it possible for anyone to learn. Some (most?) of music theory is so old that it often seems arcane and unnecessarily complex (or even wrong from a mathematical PoV). Yet it works and has stood the test of time... a LOT of time, so why fight it? I'm glad to finally be on the road that eliminates all the mystery. I can't imagine a learning approach any more straightforward that what's presented here. It's easy to understand and to skip parts that you might already know.

Seems like a useful book. I just need the patience to actually use it now haha

Il libro si pone un unico obiettivo: farvi conoscere a menadito la tastiera della chitarra. Per anni mi sono trascinato dubbi, zone d'ombra, incertezze ecc. pur tentando di suonare in modo semi-professionale un genere particolarmente complesso come il jazz. Mi sono reso conto che tutto il proprio studio può essere vanificato da una non adeguata conoscenza dello strumento: il rischio è di un perenne "arrancare" con l'errore o la stonatura che vi aspettano dietro l'angolo. La filosofia d'insegnamento di Tagliarino è: SCRIVERE (dove sono le cose), PARLARE (enunciandole ad alta voce) e solo alla fine SUONARE. Ritengo sia un metodo molto efficace, che lui stesso ha elaborato e sperimentato con i suoi studenti alla Berklee. Nel libro sono affrontati vari argomenti come scale, modi, arpeggi, triadi, alterazioni ecc, ma sempre con questo unico obiettivo: capire DOVE SONO LE COSE! Il libro è in inglese ma non presenta particolari difficoltà, è un libro adatto a tutti: al principiante come al semi-professionista che - come me - si è lasciato qualche zona d'ombra nel suo percorso di studio. Acquisto assolutamente consigliato!

The 'Guitar Fretboard Workbook' is a good, comprehensive book for beginners, intermediate & advanced guitarists. It will build a solid foundation of music theory for the beginner & will strengthen the walls of the intermediate & advanced guitarist. Just flicking through this book I could see it was good at first glance. Clear diagrams, conversational & accessible text, comprehensive subject matter. This workbook is like Nintendo Brain Training for guitarists. It will keep you on your toes and sharpen up your skills. I rate myself as more of an advanced guitarist and I found this book very useful including the basic chapters which refreshed my knowledge. I suggest completing 1-2 chapters each day until you complete all 22. Trust me, its worth it. I highly recommend this book.

So far I have completed lesson 5, upto this I must rate it as five star item. Explanation is clear,you can have a really a mind blowing concept. I must say to all guitar learner just go for it.

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