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Guitar Fretboard Fluency: Master Creative Guitar Soloing, Intervals Scale Patterns and Sequences
Guitar Fretboard Fluency is The Creative Guide to Mastering the GuitarFretboard Fluency teaches you the sequential patterns, interval skips, triads and arpeggios that turn scales into usable melodic tools for soloing. You will develop your musical ears while also building excellent technique and creative solos.
The idea is to link your fingers to your ears so you can always play what you hear in your head.
Build guitar technique and master all scales in every key, and every neck positionFretboard Fluency also gets you intimately acquainted with the guitar neck by teaching you how to play every important scale, in every key in every position on the fretboard. By using just five scale shapes you will open up the fretboard and access every scale or mode anywhere on the guitar.
Break out of creative ruts while building guitar technique As musicians, one of the biggest challenges we face is that our fingers are often in charge of our brain. Patterns or licks that we have memorised have a habit of coming out without us actually consciously meaning to play them. How many times have you thought, ‘Damn! I just played that same lick again!’?
Fretboard fluency trains your ears and brain to be in charge of your fingers while also developing your internal 'dictionary' of creative, melodic approaches. The patterns, structures and approaches you will learn help you find new and creative ways to express yourself in guitar soloing.
Get creative while mastering sequences, interval skips, triads and arpeggiosFretboard Fluency divides the Major Scale into useful melodic sequences and patterns of intervals, triads and arpeggios to achieve three distinct
Develop melodic vocabulary to allow you to access new musical ideasBecome so confident with scale shapes that you are able to let your ears guide your soloDevelop devastating, yet targeted guitar technique that enables you to play the lines that you hear in your headDedicated exercises to incorporate new melodic ideas into your playingGuitar Fretboard Fluency is not just a dictionary of melodic patterns. It teaches you to actually get creative with unlimited musical possibilities.
Guitar Fretboard Fluency teaches youEssential and useful melodic sequences, intervallic approaches, triads and ArpeggiosThe Modes of the Major, Melodic and Harmonic Minor scalesThe CAGED System - Easily memorise every scale in every key, anywhere on the neckHow to get creative with exciting melodic ideasEvery useful scale, anywhere on the guitarBonus Download over 110 notated audio examples
Bonus Get 24 original backing tracks
Fundamental Changes Write the Best Selling Guitar Books on AmazonBuy it now and take control of your creative guitar playing technique
The idea is to link your fingers to your ears so you can always play what you hear in your head.
Build guitar technique and master all scales in every key, and every neck positionFretboard Fluency also gets you intimately acquainted with the guitar neck by teaching you how to play every important scale, in every key in every position on the fretboard. By using just five scale shapes you will open up the fretboard and access every scale or mode anywhere on the guitar.
Break out of creative ruts while building guitar technique As musicians, one of the biggest challenges we face is that our fingers are often in charge of our brain. Patterns or licks that we have memorised have a habit of coming out without us actually consciously meaning to play them. How many times have you thought, ‘Damn! I just played that same lick again!’?
Fretboard fluency trains your ears and brain to be in charge of your fingers while also developing your internal 'dictionary' of creative, melodic approaches. The patterns, structures and approaches you will learn help you find new and creative ways to express yourself in guitar soloing.
Get creative while mastering sequences, interval skips, triads and arpeggiosFretboard Fluency divides the Major Scale into useful melodic sequences and patterns of intervals, triads and arpeggios to achieve three distinct
Develop melodic vocabulary to allow you to access new musical ideasBecome so confident with scale shapes that you are able to let your ears guide your soloDevelop devastating, yet targeted guitar technique that enables you to play the lines that you hear in your headDedicated exercises to incorporate new melodic ideas into your playingGuitar Fretboard Fluency is not just a dictionary of melodic patterns. It teaches you to actually get creative with unlimited musical possibilities.
Guitar Fretboard Fluency teaches youEssential and useful melodic sequences, intervallic approaches, triads and ArpeggiosThe Modes of the Major, Melodic and Harmonic Minor scalesThe CAGED System - Easily memorise every scale in every key, anywhere on the neckHow to get creative with exciting melodic ideasEvery useful scale, anywhere on the guitarBonus Download over 110 notated audio examples
Bonus Get 24 original backing tracks
Fundamental Changes Write the Best Selling Guitar Books on AmazonBuy it now and take control of your creative guitar playing technique
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First published July 4, 2015
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December 18, 2020
Maybe if the author had given full exercise examples for the first few exercises instead of just assuming a beginner would know how to continue the exercises other than just putting “etc.” I would have something to rate. Maybe author is too far removed from the beginner mind set? May have saved space and paper but certainly was not helpful to the student. I guess the profit margin was too tight to put content above cost. I have several good books by this author that do not suffer from this disconnect. This book does not fly, not because of method, but because of failure to provide enough textual runway to get off the ground. Maybe someone already fluent reading abstract tabs could fly this one, but then would they need the book. Left it, worked from another book and came back hoping to advance understanding “etc.”. Nope still get to the end of printed exercise and lock up at etc. At least a few more full examples would certainly help.
February 24, 2019
Best book I have read on musical theory...easy to understand.Invaluable
The best book I have read that explains, and "fills in" the gaps that had held me back in my pursuit to tie the pieces of basic musical theory together. The author explains basic theory in a way that is easy to understand without a condescending tone that plagues all the guitar books I have read. He also explains great "tricks" to memorize scales and tells the reader which ones to learn first.
The best book I have read that explains, and "fills in" the gaps that had held me back in my pursuit to tie the pieces of basic musical theory together. The author explains basic theory in a way that is easy to understand without a condescending tone that plagues all the guitar books I have read. He also explains great "tricks" to memorize scales and tells the reader which ones to learn first.
February 25, 2018
This is a very helpful guide to increasing your ability to understand guitar and will increase your ability to play to the next level.
March 1, 2021
Interesante libro para conocer cada nota en el diapasón de tu guitarra. Tendrás más fluidez para tocar a la hora de leer una partitura o sacar una canción. Muy recomendable
February 18, 2016
Rating after 10 minutes!
I bought this book tonight, read the intro then skimmed through it. The whole "caged" framework suddenly made sense when I examined one of the major scale exercises - play in one position the a, c , d , f and g major scales. I was thinking about why these notes in this specific order. What occurred to me is that it was the most important notes in the key the relative minor, the second for jazz progressions and the 4th and 5th for rock (I'm not sure if this is the real reason but it made me think. ) I then realized all the cage shapes appear in the one position starting with the a Barre chord on the 5th fret.
So, it was worth a lot more than $6 to have this become clear to me!
I bought this book tonight, read the intro then skimmed through it. The whole "caged" framework suddenly made sense when I examined one of the major scale exercises - play in one position the a, c , d , f and g major scales. I was thinking about why these notes in this specific order. What occurred to me is that it was the most important notes in the key the relative minor, the second for jazz progressions and the 4th and 5th for rock (I'm not sure if this is the real reason but it made me think. ) I then realized all the cage shapes appear in the one position starting with the a Barre chord on the 5th fret.
So, it was worth a lot more than $6 to have this become clear to me!
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