This book is not for beginners. However, I'm not a beginner. In fact, I've been playing since about 1966 although there were a couple decades when I wasn't playing. In fairness, I don' think the description says the book is for beginners but I'm surprised by the many comments by reviewers that they wish they had this book long ago when they were starting out with guitar. Some reviews and the description of the book imply that you will learn the fretboard with this book. That may be true but it's a lot more than that.
Just for the information of those who may be beginners and are considering buying this book, here is a quote by the author describing what you should be familiar with before using this book:
"The musical notes, sharps and flats (including enharmonic equivalents)
Scales (and roots or tonics): pentatonic (major and minor), blues, altered blues, the modes of the major scale, harmonic and melodic minor.
Keys (major and minor), keynote (the tonic).
Chords, including the diatonic triads and 7th chords of the major scale and harmonic minor scales, extended chords (9th, 11th, 13th) and altered chords.
Chord progressions."
Now, I am familar with some of this stuff but not all of it although I may be using these things without actually knowing it consciously. And I'm not a bad player! I play both acoustic (6 and 12-string) and electric. I'm not a lead player but I'm a pretty good flat-picker and fingerpicker. I play about 50% blues and the other 50% is mostly acoustic semi-folk in the style of such artists as Neil Young, etc.
I just received the book and I will update my rating if I feel that's needed as I use the book. For now I'm giving it a neutral (3-star) rating. Hopefully, that will catch the attention of some who are thinking of buying the book. I wanted to alert beginners and some intermediate players that, according to the author, you should be a fairly accomplished player before using this book. I'm just going by what the author herself says.
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Fretboard Knowledge for the Contemporary Guitarist: The Ultimate Guide to Music for Blues, Rock, and Jazz Guitarists (LIVRE SUR LA MU) Paperback – January 1, 2003
by
Vivian Clement
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Become a master of the entire guitar fretboard by learning simple pattern recognition techniques. Vivian Clement puts hundreds of scales, modes and chords at your fingertips, along with some new tricks for easy transposing.
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Print length96 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherAlfred Music
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Publication dateJanuary 1, 2003
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Dimensions8.75 x 0.25 x 11.5 inches
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ISBN-109780739031575
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ISBN-13978-0739031575
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- ASIN : 0739031570
- Publisher : Alfred Music (January 1, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 96 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780739031575
- ISBN-13 : 978-0739031575
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.75 x 0.25 x 11.5 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2011
I wished I'd found this book years ago. There are some concepts in here that I've never seen in any other instructional materials that help unlock the fretboard. I won't say there is any magic pill, but the CAGED concepts (part of which is brushed upon with the note location idea in this book) along with the ideas of where the patterns repeat up the neck on different string pairs has really helped me get out of playing within a set pentatonic box or a single scale shape and allowed me to connect these shapes and even flow through them, effortlessly.
If you've learned the major, minor and blues pentatonic scale boxes, and five major scale forms to cover the neck, but have a difficult time moving between different parts of the neck -- I would say that working with this book for a little each day over even a couple of weeks is going to really get you off a plateau and to new levels of playing and understanding.
If you've ever had a problem really applying modes to your playing, there is an approach to playing in any different mode up-and-down the neck that made doing this much easier for me.
I practice each morning for an hour and have spent a lot of time on different pentatonic, major and minor scales and the CAGED system, and I think that all has value. I would consider myself an intermediate player, some of my friends would say I'm advanced. I do play in a local band, I have focused on finger picking/acoustic blues, but I've been asked to play a lot more lead parts in the band, so I've spent more time on scale work, etc. Looking at something in a different way sometimes can be very helpful and if I ever start teaching guitar, I would introduce some of this material fairly early on.
If you've learned the major, minor and blues pentatonic scale boxes, and five major scale forms to cover the neck, but have a difficult time moving between different parts of the neck -- I would say that working with this book for a little each day over even a couple of weeks is going to really get you off a plateau and to new levels of playing and understanding.
If you've ever had a problem really applying modes to your playing, there is an approach to playing in any different mode up-and-down the neck that made doing this much easier for me.
I practice each morning for an hour and have spent a lot of time on different pentatonic, major and minor scales and the CAGED system, and I think that all has value. I would consider myself an intermediate player, some of my friends would say I'm advanced. I do play in a local band, I have focused on finger picking/acoustic blues, but I've been asked to play a lot more lead parts in the band, so I've spent more time on scale work, etc. Looking at something in a different way sometimes can be very helpful and if I ever start teaching guitar, I would introduce some of this material fairly early on.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2008
I've been trying to learn the fretboard (to be able to jam or improvise)for years (scales, keys, notes), but I HATE rote memorization, and so many approaches require LOTS of memorization. This book shows you a VERY simple way, first, to find specific notes on the fretboard (using a "W" formation that locates notes by octaves). Then it shows you how to play the most-used scales (major and minor pentatonic) in the most efficient, easily-remembered way I have ever seen. (It also covers other scales.) I've struggled with the CAGED system using "boxes." Call me slow or stupid, but it never made sense to me, and there was SO much to remember with that approach. With this approach, I find my fingers flying up and down the fretboard, starting with any note, playing in any key. I can go, for example, from the first fret of the 6th string to the 16th fret of the first sting, and back down again, and play around in between, and not take the same "route," with NO problem. It's just plain FUN. And it's easy.
In my opinion, pages 14 and 15 alone are worth the price of entry. I highly recommend this book.
In my opinion, pages 14 and 15 alone are worth the price of entry. I highly recommend this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017
Thank you, Vivian Clement! After many years of buying many books, videos, etc. coming across your book was the best thing! Fretboarding would have been so much better if I had found this at the start of my journey. Brilliant in its simplicity-the complete opposite of all those innumerable stupid encyclopedias with page after page of charts!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2006
This book is a real find. It shows some of the patterns on the guitar neck that make playing infinitely more enjoyable and easy. Why every guitar teacher doesn't use this book is beyond me. Its like the difference between an analog watch (one with hands) and a digital. With the analog a glance will show the pattern of the time; a digital actually has to be read and interpreted. Same thing with the guitar neck. Know the patterns and start creating your music.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2016Verified Purchase
Need to read it seems lots of ideas.
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Reviewed in Germany on July 25, 2016Verified Purchase
Wer kennt das Problem nicht: Tonleitern auf der Gitarre üben ist wichtig, aber wenn man später einmal gerne das ganze Griffbrett bespielen möchte, ist man meistens in den einzelnen Lagen "gefangen".
Dieses Buch verfolgt einen völlig neuen Ansatz: es vermittelt Tonleitern die in merkbare und immer wieder kehrende Teile zerlegt werden und somit sofort (auch für den Laien) ziemlich rasch über das ganze Griffbrett gespielt werden können.
Mein Fazit: sehr empfehlenswert!!!!
Dieses Buch verfolgt einen völlig neuen Ansatz: es vermittelt Tonleitern die in merkbare und immer wieder kehrende Teile zerlegt werden und somit sofort (auch für den Laien) ziemlich rasch über das ganze Griffbrett gespielt werden können.
Mein Fazit: sehr empfehlenswert!!!!
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