Guitar Fretboard Workbook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0634049011 ISBN 13: 9780634049019

Publisher: Musicians Institute Press, 2003

Synopsis

Master the guitar fretboard with the Guitar Fretboard Workbook - 2nd Edition, an essential training guide for beginners, students, and experienced players. Designed from the Musicians Institute core curriculum, this hands-on workbook helps you navigate the fretboard with clarity and confidence. It provides practical exercises that connect music theory directly to real guitar playing for fast, lasting results.

What’s Inside: This updated edition includes clear lessons on chord construction, scale patterns, and arpeggios, helping players build a solid foundation in music theory. Through visual and logical methods, guitarists learn how to construct any scale or chord across the neck while developing a deeper understanding of tonal relationships and improvisation techniques.

Comprehensive Fretboard Training: Suitable for all guitar styles—acoustic, electric, rock, blues, jazz, or classical—this guide encourages creativity and skill development. Exercises are structured to reinforce pattern recognition, ear training, and fretboard fluency without requiring prior music reading experience, making it an accessible learning tool for all levels.

Why It’s Valuable: This workbook improves fingerboard visualization, strengthens musical awareness, and enhances improvisation through active learning. It is a trusted classroom resource and an ideal self-study companion for guitarists eager to refine their technique, expand harmonic understanding, and perform with greater confidence.

Bring music to life. Whether you are teaching, practicing, or rediscovering guitar, this proven workbook will help you unlock the full potential of your instrument and develop the foundation every great musician needs.

About this title

About the Author

Barrett Tagliarino has been an MI instructor since 1987 and was Rock Department Head at Hohner MusikSchule in Vienna, Austria in 1994. He’s toured on boats, trains, and buses, by plane, van, and auto, performing countless gigs and sessions, and teaching seminars, clinics, and private lessons.

He has recorded for CD sessions, TV shows, radio commercials, and Karaoke soundtracks. His teaching skills are featured on the Starlicks instructional video, Classic Rock Guitar Soloing. Barrett has also been published in magazines such as Guitar Player and Guitar One.

You can grab free tunes from his first CD, Moe’s Art, along with over 50 full-length guitar-oriented recordings by Barrett and other artists at his web site, monsterguitars.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0634049011
• ISBN 13: 9780634049019
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 80