Guitar Fretboard Workbook
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Book Reviews of Guitar Fretboard Workbook
Book Review: A complete, highly comprehensive approach to the fretboard.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using this book with my students since Barrett started putting together the opening chapters. I first used it with my advanced students, those who already had some experience with the 5 patterns of major scales. Immediately they returned saying that it helped them understand the scales and visualize the fretboard more easily. Having my students walk in with diagrams of scales and intervals for me to check has been an incredible reversal of roles. Normally I would draw diagrams for them to study and play. Going over a chapter and sending them home to complete and play the exercises gets the student involved in a way that the normal draw, demonstrate, "see ya' next week" cycle never really reaches. It gives the student an opportunity to take home and digest the information that was normally only available during the lesson.
Teaching people to operate a guitar and teaching music on a guitar are almost completely different tasks. I found the first six chapters to be very helpful when initiating beginner and intermediate students into the world beyond the 3rd fret and power chords. There is something in this book for nearly anyone interested in knowing how to play the guitar.
If you are an instructor you will find the comprehensive, organized approach very thorough and focused. If you are self-studying the instrument or a student seeking more than just another tabbed-out solo this is a book you can keep coming back to throughout your journey. I highly recommend it.
Billy Burke
Book Review: Best Instruction Book I've Found
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a "middle aged" student that has been playing cowboy chords for years, but never got much beyond first position. I've wanted to learn scales, arps, triads and other techniques to bring out more expression and to be able to solo anywhere on the neck with confidence. I started and stopped several other guitar courses because at some point the author made leaps or assumptions I simply wasn't ready for. This is by far the most logically designed and naturally progressing course I've seen for learning the fretboard. It's very well written and very clear in communicating the unique structure of the guitar. I would strongly recommend this to any beginning or intermediate student--or even those who have been playing awhile--but want to go back to basics and relearn it the way it should be learned. There's a lot of material here, so don't expect to complete it in anything short of many months to a year. I'm about six weeks into it and have already learned basics about root and chord positions, scales and theory that other courses--and several teachers--have not been able to make clear to me. I don't know if it's a function of age, limited practice time or sensory overload from job and household duties, but retaining a lot of abstract information does not come as easy as it used to. But using the author's methodical way of learning this material, it gets dialed in pretty quickly and it stays there! Highly recommended!Book Review: Absolutely Superb !
Summary: 5 Stars
This title popped up while I was ordering something else, looked interesting so I grabbed it. Within 1 day I already had the technique the author illustrates for finding notes down packed and am now working my way through the rest of the material.
This book is easily the best beginner-intermediate guitar book I have grabbed to date (and I've grabbed quite a few) and illustrates clearly why you are doing something, and what you can expect to know when you do it - something most books tend to leave out.
Having the reader revert to pen and paper exercises is superb, and really drives home the information you need to learn - and allowed me to continue guitar studies while commuting!
In short, this book is clearly written by someone who knows how to teach, not just someone who knows how to play. Not only that the author knows how to teach well, and reinforce the learning's. I have no doubt that I will make significant improvements in my playing by the time I reach the end, and have the basics down packed - by clearly illustrating basic fundamentals that I have struggled to comprehend from other publications, and from teachings.
If you're a beginner or intermediate student, this book is a must. If your advanced and don't understand the concepts in this book - buy it !
Book Review: Get to know your Fretboard
Summary: 5 Stars
Everything is explained very well, for the first time I believe I have found a book that will make a huge difference in my ability to play the guitar after many years of hit and miss. This book helps you understand what is going on and how to figure out what you want to do without constantly referring to pictures and charts. You'll have the keys to map it out on the fly once you become accustomed to recognizing the various patterns, intervals, and scales with the easy, non-rote method used to simplify the organization of the fretboard as it applies to music theory. This book has helped my interest grow towards mastering the instrument eventhough I was just looking for some instruction on playing my own accompaniment when I sing. I see that I'll be able to do a lot more and know how to figure out things I imagine myself playing for that unique sound and style so I don't have to copy others. If you are serious about playing guitar or want to become expert at playing lead get this book and you might look into getting the Washburn Rover travel guitar check it out Amazon's got the best price. No I don't work for either Amazon or the author, I'm just happy to pass along good info to other players.Book Review: Worth 10 Times the Price!
Summary: 5 Stars
Tagliarino does something very few authors of guitar books have done - he puts the entire fretboard within reach of the guitar student. About 99 percent of the guitar players I know panic when they get beyond the fourth fret. But all of these players absolutely love the guitar and truly desire to learn the instrument - all the way to fret 12 and above. They have all kinds of musical notes and guitar riffs in their heads, but can't reproduce them on the fretboard. That is the worst kind of pain.
Fortunately, Tagliarino's method is the "wonder drug" that takes the mystique out of the guitar fretboard and makes it all come together. Please be advised however, that getting this book doesn't reduce the necessity of practice. What students should experience is an increased desire to practice more! My advice to any guitar player, or instructor for that matter - get this book and the boxed set of Fretboard Logic (with DVD) by Edwards - and get to work! Within six months: you, your friends, your students, your teachers - eveyone - will be absolutely amazed at your increased level of knowledge. Take the plunge and buy this book! You won't regret your investment!