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Title: Fretboard Logic SE: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning + Chords Scales and Arpeggios Complete (The Fretboard Logic Guitar Method Parts I and II) by Bill Edwards ISBN: 0-9624770-6-0 Publisher: Bill Edwards Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (44 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Like a Rosetta stone for the guitar.
Comment: Fretboard Logic SE is a great book that manages to distill a vast amount of information into a very concise and usable form. In a way, it's like a Rosetta Stone for the guitar. As I read the book, I "felt the light go on" over and over as bits and pieces I'd picked up over the years clicked into place and I began to understand how they related together.
It covers a method called the CAGED system, which uses barre forms of the C, A, G, E, and D chords (thus the name). These chords are movable as a block to anywhere on the neck, the benefit being that you always know how to find a chord near where your hand is currently on the neck.
Building on the CAGED system are various major and pentatonic scale forms, so that you can easily play runs - which are the basis for solo, riffs and improvising.
It gives sensible explanations of music theory and how it pertains to playing the guitar. Building upon this he shows how to form the common chord types - (major, minor, sevenths, etc) in any key.
It's opened up the guitar for me. I've only been playing my acoustic guitar a couple months, and I can sit and watch a guitarist on TV now and understand what I see him doing. I may see his hand on the fretboard and notice that his hand is making an E form, moved to the 8th fret. Sometimes I can make out that it's a 7th by hearing it. That's something I can reproduce immediately or later. Or I can (slowly) improvise along with a song I hear by using the pentatonic scales I've learned. I can hear and see the chord progressions from I to IV to V and back.
You'll still need lots of practice to toughen and strengthen your fingers and hands and to make them quick and limber, but Fretboard Logic SE is a great book to start with or to brush up with if your more advanced. It will save you a great deal of frustration and make your learning quicker and more productive.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you're learning guitar, you have to have this book...
Comment: I found out about this instructional book ... I learned this book was a top selling instruction book at www.amazon.com. After reading all the reviews and the Authors interview ... I was compelled to buy this book. ... This book provides the learning environment that works for me. You start by learning about the CAGED system, which I think is absolutely necessary for learning guitar chords and scales. I can honestly say that I'm a much better player and knowledgeable player because of this book and I reference it everyday to review how well I know my chord and scale names at any position along the fretboard. The book is presented in a manner for left and right brain folk. Theory and verbage on one half of the page and illustrations and pictures/finger locations on the other half of the page. This simple and effective presentation and the way in which the author progressively moves a student forward in the process of learning guitar is absolutely the best aspect of this book. I've only gone thru part I of the book, and the only negative thing I can think of about this book is this. Now that I learned chords and scales all the way up and down the fretboard, where's the songs for me to learn and apply my new found knowledge. You will not find songs to learn in this book. This book teachs how to play guitar, not play songs. The authors reasoning for this is due to the many different tastes a student has for music. This book is only intended to help prepare a student to learn songs on their own. The only other thing I would recommend w/ this book as I would w/ anything is make your learning fun and enjoyable. Supplement what you learn in this book by taking what you know and finding your favorite easy songs and/or exercises to learn to play as well. Develop yourself a practice routine that includes chords, scales, lead patterns, and modes, from this book and allow time to learn new songs/exercises (finger picking/alternate picking exercises)and/or review songs already learned. I state that this book is for beginners only because I'm a beginner myself, but others ... have rated this book as suitable for any level of play.
Rating: 3
Summary: A lot of good ideas but not for people with small hands
Comment: Fretboard Logic SE is a valuable book and you'll understand a great deal more about the logic of the guitar's tuning and fret system within the first few pages but if you have small hands and/or short fingers you may find some of the alternate fingerings and barres required in this system to literally be beyond your reach. People with long fingers and/or average to larger than average hands will no doubt have an easier time of it.
Example: The standard way of learning an open G chord requires playing it with the index, middle and ring fingers (think 1st, 2nd and 3rd fingers) with the fourth finger (pinkie) along for the ride and possibly available to change the voicing within the chord or to maybe add a ninth ("A" above G). In the Fretboard Logic way of doing things the standard open G chord is played with the middle, ring and pinkie fingers (2-3-4) so as to leave the index available to "barre" in the moveable form as you go up the fretboard. This requires spanning the space of a full open fret with your index finger at the same time you are using fingers 2-3-4 to fret the E, A and E strings. I can't draw a picture here so it's best to pick up a guitar if you have one or draw yourself a picture of a fretboard to help visualize. Basically, if you can make that reach back with your index finger across a full fret while fingering with 2, 3 and 4 then this system should be fully workable for you. If you can't do it (and I can only manage it with difficulty), you'll still get a lot out of the book and increase your knowledge but portions of the system may well be "literally out of reach".
The CAGED system of moveable chords/positions really is rather brilliant. Even if you don't buy the book, borrow a copy from your local library or from a friend. There's nothing wrong with adding to your knowledge. If the system was totally workable for everyone I'd have rated it five stars. As it is, with limits on people (most women, children, young teens and some men) with smaller than average hands, I can only go three. (Too bad Amazon doesn't have a way to go three and half.)
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