Guitar Fretboard Workbook
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Book Reviews of Guitar Fretboard Workbook
Book Review: This is a gold mine!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read countless testimonials about guitar books that guarantee results I never was able to achieve. This book actually delivered for me, and it has done so in a big way. My ambition, which previously eluded me entirely, has been to become fluent on the fretboard--to be able to improvise, follow changes, structure complex chords on the fly and the like. I tried so long in vain I decided I must just lack the necessary ability. This book changed all that for me. I am doing things now I only dreamed of before. I don't know how the author figured it out, but he has come up with a way to communicate an understanding of music and the fretboard to both your head and, probably more important, your hands. Simple things like combining diagram exercises and playing, reinforced by having you speak the information out loud, really work to imprint the material on your fingers. The book walks you one step at a time, fairly painlessly, from simple to very complex. This thing is a gold mine. No kidding.
Book Review: Great Workbook
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently got this and thumbed through it at first, not understanding why there were so many blank patterns. Well, it's because it's a workbook. Where as most guitar learning books I have purchased were 'read, play and apply', this is a book much like a school workbook, where it teaches you the lesson, and then tests you on what you learned.
I wasn't sure how I felt about that approach at first, but I realized this is quite possibly the best way to learn it all like it needs to be learned. The excercises tell you to talk out the actions while learning, and the test require you to write out what you've learned, which are two of the best tools for teaching and learning that can be utilized.
I highly recommend the books for beginners or long time players that don't have a full understanding of the fretboard. It's one thing to know what sounds good by playing it, it's another to know the names of the notes, chords and arpeggios as they are being played.
Book Review: Absolut masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
I am so called advanced guitar player. I learned playing guitar by myself and it was very long time ago. I went through rock bands, blues bands, wedding party bands and even jazz big band. But it was playing from memory or emotional. I have put my guitars on shelf for long time(too long) and couple of years ago I made myself the biggest pleasure and started music yourney again. But now my unknowledge started bother me. So I took few theory music lessons with educated musician. One then I quit, then another one... more and more expensive ones. All it was a mess - info here and there but not put logicly together. And I was lucky I found "Chord -tone soloing" and "Fretboard workbook" by Barret Tagliarino. Both absolute masterpieces. Logical, simple and easy to follow. And you realy see progress. I am sure I will be able to call myself advadced guitar player next year. How nice is play and understand, and the music is different - better. Thank you Barret for your educational skills.Book Review: OHHHHHHH! NOW I get it....
Summary: 5 Stars
Playing guitar on and off for 35 years. I finally decided to find out what was actually going on, and how to really know my way around the fretboard, instead of just memorizing tunes and scales. Thank god I found this book - it is a marvel. There is some serious work in there if you're going to do it all, but it couldn't be any easier or any simpler than he makes it. From the first page you are learning very useful and significant things, and are led through graduated exercises to real insight. There is repetition galore - because that's how brains and fingers learn this kind of thing - but to someone who has longed for the mists to clear every step is a pleasure. I am FINALLY understanding how a guitar works and with a little more work it will be permanently laid bare to me, like a piano keyboard. Can't speak highly enough of this book. I've scribbled answers and notes all over mine and when I start forgetting I will probably get another and do it all again.Book Review: Get plenty of "AHA!" moments
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is, as the title suggests, a workbook. You study, complete excersizes, practice. It connects bits of theory and helps you understand how all the elements of the fretboard work together, from tuning to scales to complicated chords. This book teaches what I have been trying to learn for ages- how to "navigate" the fretboard. Because of this book, I can identify any note on the fretboard, or create scales up and down the neck without getting lost (which is the key to soloing). If you follow the instructions and use this book the way it's intended, you will actually understand music theory on the guitar in a very practical way. I cannot overstate the importance of the knowledge this book will help you gain. You will have plenty of "AHA!" moments when you work on some excersizes and then realize how vital the knowledge is that you just gained. This book is superb and will improve your playing and understanding, guaranteed!