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Exploring the Fingerboard
by Russ Barenberg Book + CD Intermediate - Advanced Level |
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| This six-hour course teaches guitarists to find and play any note in any position on the neck, build chords and improvise melodies. Russ Barenberg, one of the most highly respected acoustic guitarists today, provides a road map for fully understanding the entire guitar fingerboard. He also covers music theory, ear training, improvisation and exercises to strengthen the left hand. Highly recommended for all serious guitar students | ||
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Figuring Out the Fingerboard
by Steve Kaufman DVD + TAB Intermediate Level |
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| Have you ever wondered how to improvise solos using the entire length of the guitar fingerboard? Steve Kaufman clears up the mystery and teaches you how to play fluidly and confidently anywhere on the neck. Starting with well-known fiddle tunes, Steve shows you how to find the notes and develop a melodic sense. He then teaches you how to find movable chord forms in different positions on the fingerboard. Finally, you’ll learn the famous “CAGED” system, enabling you to understand and play scales and melodies in all positions up the neck. Tunes include Soldier's Joy, June Apple, Cluck Old Hen, Arkansas Traveler, Cripple Creek and Old Joe Clark. | ||
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Fretboard Roadmaps - Bluegrass And Folk Guitar
by Fred Sokolow Book + CD Beginner - Intermediate Level |
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| This book looks at the essential guitar patterns that the pros know and use. It includes instructional book and examples CD. With standard guitar notation, guitar tablature and instructional text. | ||
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Music Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist - Volume 1: The Big Picture
by Bruce Emery Book Beginner Level |
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| Bruce Emery has written perhaps the best books on music theory available for guitarists. The pace of learning is measured and thorough and Bruce's sense of humor makes the whole process fun! The first section of this volume lays the groundwork by starting with chords and how we use them without getting bogged down in too much technical detail. In the second section the author goes back to the beginning and explores the relationship between chords and scales, chord families, the circle of fifths, and minor scales. | ||
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Music Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist - Volume 2: The Fretboard
by Bruce Emery Book Beginner Level |
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| While Volume 1 of the Musical Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist looked at the principles of music from a general perspective, in Volume 2 the primary focus is the fretboard of the guitar. The CAGED system dominates the second book. It will help you organize scales and chords into all these handy inter-connected box patterns up and down the neck. This volume explores chord voicings, the CAGED chord forms, complex chords, and box patterns. Additional topics include chord quality and how chords and scales can be interwoven into harmonized melodies. | ||