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venjacques · 03-20-2012, 02:22 AM

Sadly I don't know much about guitar theory books. The one I'm using, I do recommend, but it's kind of a tunnel-vision recommendation; it's all I know. It's called Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna. It goes from teaching you the pentatonic scale and chord shapes, which are the huge basic building blocks of creating any scale and chords.

When you boil it down, guitar is just the sum of scales and chords. If you know your patterns, you can move them up and down the fret board and recreate them in any key, and it'll work well. This book's approach is nice because it tells you how it all ties together as well as gives you plenty of examples of popular music which show each topic discussed.

03-20-2012, 02:22 AM	#11 (permalink)
venjacques Groupie Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 48	Sadly I don't know much about guitar theory books. The one I'm using, I do recommend, but it's kind of a tunnel-vision recommendation; it's all I know. It's called Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna. It goes from teaching you the pentatonic scale and chord shapes, which are the huge basic building blocks of creating any scale and chords. When you boil it down, guitar is just the sum of scales and chords. If you know your patterns, you can move them up and down the fret board and recreate them in any key, and it'll work well. This book's approach is nice because it tells you how it all ties together as well as gives you plenty of examples of popular music which show each topic discussed. __________________ It's just another day.