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Fretboard Logic SE: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning + Chords Scales and...
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by Bill Edwards
Sales Rank: 7326
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List Price: $19.95
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on 12-29-2007.
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Features
Paperback: 106 pages
Publisher: Edwards Music Publishing; 1 edition July 1997
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0962477060
ISBN-13: 978-0962477065
Product Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
John Gilmore Osawatomise KS
"You've changed my world and you're going to change other's worlds and the way they look at the instrument."
Rich DiBiase Bristol CT
"You're going to change the way the guitar is taught forever."
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Learning guitar is an odd process. You're supposed to practice, practice, practice. You learn chord shapes. You have lessons. You dissect solos note by note. There appears to be no master plan. Somehow, through a variety of methods, you're supposed to learn. Eventually, you're assured, by some means you're not aware of yet (osmosis?), you'll "get it." This book is the "it" you're supposed to get. Far too many books assume that the common methods work. Many an aspiring student has put the guitar in the closet in frustration at something that doesn't address the basic question - What note do I play next? Bill Edwards has taken the idea of positional relationships to its highest point. If I play a C chord with a barre at the eighth fret, where will I find a convenient F and G position? What shape will I need to play, and what fret should I start from? This seems to me to be a basic question yet it hardly gets a mention in most books. It seems that if you practice long enough and don't get bored to death, you'll know this. Bill Edwards shows that the five major chord shapes (C, A, G, E, and D) follow as you move up the fretboard, so you quickly learn that if you're playing a certain shape at a certain fret, the chords you're going to need will be in a specific other shape a specific number of frets away. This is independent of what key you're playing in, so if you start a 12-bar blues with a A-shape, you can drop down a couple of frets and play an E-shape for the next chord. I've made it sound far more complex than it is. You'll need the book - make no mistake - and in just a few hours you'll have learned a huge amount of useful stuff. But this is just the first seventeen of over a hundred pages. The idea of positional relationships is used to describe scales and then the pentatonic blues scale, so you can build solos and know immediately where the next notes are. Fretboard Logic pulls all the useful stuff from other learning methods together. It shows you *why* you play the notes you do. I was suspicious of the other reviews here (mainly reprinted from the book's cover), because they sounded so good they couldn't be true. Then I saw the book recommended on the Fender Forum, so I decided to take a chance. Yeah, you still have to practice. Your fingers won't get supple until you do. But imagine practicing where you're constantly trying something new, and where the musical inspiration flows. That's what you'll get if you study Fretboard Logic.
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