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Guitar Fretboard Workbook

6 December 2009 66 views 5 Comments

  • ISBN13: 9780634049019
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
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.

Guitar Fretboard Workbook

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  • dustydan said:

    the 5 octeve positions patterns is great to know how ever school book formate I did’nt care for.
    Rating: 2 / 5

    - 6 December 2009 at 4:44 pm
  • E. Valenzuela said:

    I am trying to find a book that will explain how to position your fingers for different cords, maybe show you how to play a few songs, and perhaps show you how to strum the guitar in an effective manner, said that. this book is not at all what I was looking for. even you are a good guitar player you wont be able to make heads of tales of the material on this book.
    Rating: 1 / 5

    - 6 December 2009 at 7:22 pm
  • Mark A. Dearth said:

    This very helpful book provided me confidence to tackle a partial refret on my 12 yr old washburn D34S (wideneck: 12 fret). It’s a scary moment when you start pulling frets out of the board, believe me! I will say that no book is completely thorough in describing such work, but this is one of the better resources I have found.
    Rating: 4 / 5

    - 6 December 2009 at 7:57 pm
  • M. Grooms said:

    I’m probably one of the few who bought this book first AND haven’t bought the Fretboard Logic book yet. So no one can say my opinion is “tainted” or “biased” in favor of another book. Let me put it frankly: this book is poorly written and it’s not for “all levels” as they claim.

    I was doing ok with this book for most of the first 22 pages. But then it shot right over my head when they expected me to be able to build the major scale patterns from what I’d learned already. There’s simply no way. Nowhere in the preceding pages was there enough information to do what they were expecting me to do. Here are their exact words from the Intro: “Later chapters in this book depend heavily on the ones at the beginning.” I think they meant to say later chapters depend on you having read other books that provide better explanations. And then it just shot further and further out of reach as I looked ahead. I was thinking “If I already knew this stuff why would I buy this book?!” It is tedious as another reviewer said.

    That’s not the ONLY problem I ran into in just 22 pages. There was another issue in exercise 11 where you found yourself having to write E# as the answer. That surely didn’t seem right but that was in fact in the answer key. They gave no explanation WHY this was the correct note which they SHOULD have because as a general rule there is no E#. Again this book appears to assume you already know this stuff. By exercise 12 I simply didn’t trust the book anymore and set it aside.

    I’m aware it must be difficult for a writer of a guitar book who already fully understands what they are trying to convey to put it in such a way that doesn’t skip important details necessary for those (like myself) who DON’T yet fully understand what is being conveyed. Having said that, I’ve found other books that do just that and that’s what I’m paying for. So I have a problem with the fact that this book has been commited to print while still needing further explanation and clarification in several areas. This book is incomplete as it is.

    I would simply have returned the book but since I had already scribbled all over it by the time I got to page 22 there was no way. I even emailed the publisher directly telling them I wanted my money back. I recieved no response even though they claimed they would personally respond. So they got their money but they also lost a customer. This isn’t the only book from this publisher I’ve had issues with either. But it will be the last.
    Rating: 1 / 5

    - 6 December 2009 at 9:41 pm
  • Everett C. Bennett said:

    This book would be a lot better if it explained things more thoroughly and relied less on the reader drawing scale diagrams. Doing the work is fine but the book just doesn’t explain the topic very well. Also, I found several errors in the first 30 pages–diagrams wrong, explanations wrong, answers wrong (like, where is E#????), etc. It does a poor job of explaining the relative relationships between scales. I gave it two stars because of the root positions diagrams. These were very useful. Could have been a lot better.
    Rating: 2 / 5

    - 6 December 2009 at 11:47 pm