Fretboard Logic: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning - Softcover

Bill Edwards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962477001 ISBN 13: 9780962477003

Publisher: Edwards Music Publishing, 1983

Synopsis

Fretboard Logic Volume I: The Guitar Fretboard Mastered

Are you serious about learning guitar and ready to move beyond simple beginner songs? Fretboard Logic Volume I provides the essential foundational guitar instruction that professional players rely on. This groundbreaking book precisely explains the pattern organization of the guitar’s fretboard, a critical step for any dedicated student.

The way the guitar is tuned creates a unique matrix of strings and frets. Until you understand this “Fretboard Matrix,” all other areas of learning guitar—from soloing to rhythm—will involve frustrating guesswork and endless rote memorization. This volume teaches you how the entire playing area of your instrument works.

Stop hitting plateaus and start automating your progress. Fretboard Logic presents this fundamental knowledge as a core, separate area of musical education, serving as the essential prerequisite for mastering all future guitar scales, chords, and music theory. If you want to finally master the logic of the instrument and gain an edge in your guitar education, Volume I is your starting point.

🌟 Unlock the Fretboard: Discover the hidden pattern organization and core logic of the entire guitar fretboard, eliminating years of guesswork and confusion for all serious students.

🌟 Essential Guitar Instruction: Get the foundational prerequisite knowledge needed for advanced playing, theory, and learning guitar—a must-have manual for intermediate and committed beginner players.

🌟 Master the Tuning System: Finally understand the unique tuning of the instrument and how the "Fretboard Matrix" dictates every scale, chord, and lick you play across all strings and positions.

🌟 Accelerated Guitar Education: Build a solid framework for guitar music theory that connects every note and shape on the neck, making subsequent volumes (covering scales and arpeggios) easy to grasp.

🌟 Proven Methodology: Join thousands of players who have used Fretboard Logic to stop memorizing individual shapes and start seeing the guitar neck as an intuitive, logical whole.

About this title

About the Author

Author Bill Edwards started learning music on the piano at a young age in the traditional manner, playing classical music and reading standard notation. He became interested in popular music and the guitar in high school but those educational experiences centered around learning rock and roll songs by ear from records, and figuring leads and rhythms out by trial and error. In college, working part time as a music teacher, these dissimilar educational approaches finally came together when a guitar student asked him to show them how he was able to figure things out just by listening to it. The result was a discovery that became the cornerstone of Fretboard Logic, which is that while it has gone unrecognized and unexplained for centuries, the guitar's tuning system produces a separate and unique area of study and puts the instrument into a class by itself. The author took advantage of ongoing advances in personal computer technology and developed his own books and videos which offer innovations in several areas. Bill Edwards still plays guitar and piano every day and is always developing new projects in the fields of music, invention and education.

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From Chapter 2: Verbally distinguish the guitar forms from the chord names from now on. For now it is important to identify them by describing what your eyes are seeing and your fingers are playing. The form is what you play, the chord is what you hear.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwards Music Publishing
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962477001
• ISBN 13: 9780962477003
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• Number of pages: 48