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Fretboard Logic SE: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning Plus Chords Scales and Arpeggios Complete(2 Volumes) Paperback – January 1, 1989

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The Special Edition is the first two volumes of the Fretboard Logic guitar series combined, at a special discount. Part One deals with the pattern organization of the fretboard which results from the guitar's unique tuning system. Part Two teaches the tone groups of music - Chords, Scales and Arpeggios - by building them in the context of this pervasive pattern organization, and thereby eliminating the usual guesswork and rote memorization associated with these areas of a guitarist's education. This alone can take years off the learning curve. Combined, the two parts form a solid foundation by which a guitarist can intelligently pursue the music styles and technical approaches of their own choosing, and play them on the guitar types which they prefer.

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You're going to change the way the guitar is taught forever. --Rich DiBiase

You've changed my world and you're going to change other's worlds and the way they look at the instrument. --John Gilmore

I cant express the excitement I feel as I am getting to understand the guitar fretboard in a very real sense. My musical goals are now within reach and I have a way of getting there. At some point, while working through the second book, I will start putting together chord solos and working on finding a voice and style of my own. I decided to learn everything you offer in your books. Everything in your books has a useful purpose and I thank you for it. The comments from other customers in your books are NOT an exaggeration, they are right on target. --Tony Beltram

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Year after year this is the Amazon bestselling guitar title. It is also one of the most user-endorsed products in the entire music industry.

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If you've been used to methods which talk a little bit about this and that, but never really nail anything down in a meaningful way, you are in for a pleasant surprise. Even if you've played for decades and read dozens of books about the guitar and music, Fretboard Logic is going to change your mind about how things work on a fundamental level. By building on solid foundations, you get away from the monkey-see, monkey-do mentality that other methods necessarily perpetuate, and start to think and do things differently, and that is really what learning is all about.

About the Author

Author Bill Edwards started learning music on the piano at a young age in the traditional manner, playing classical music and reading standard notation. He became interested in popular music and the guitar in high school but those educational experiences centered around learning rock and roll songs by ear from records, and figuring leads and rhythms out by trial and error. In college, working part time as a music teacher, these dissimilar educational approaches finally came together when a guitar student asked him to show them how he was able to figure things out just by listening to it. The result was a discovery that became the cornerstone of Fretboard Logic, which is that while it has gone unrecognized and unexplained for centuries, the guitar's tuning system produces a separate and unique area of study and puts the instrument into a class by itself. The author took advantage of ongoing advances in personal computer technology and developed his own books and videos which offer innovations in several areas. Bill Edwards still plays guitar and piano every day and is always developing new projects in the fields of music, invention and education.

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From Chapter 2: Verbally distinguish the guitar forms from the chord names from now on. For now it is important to identify them by describing what your eyes are seeing and your fingers are playing. The form is what you play, the chord is what you hear.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bill Edwards; 1st edition (January 1, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0962477060
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0962477065
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.57 x 0.34 x 11.04 inches

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Matthew Moring

Just buy it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2022

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A fundamental book if you really want to play guitar. It'll take you next level quick. If you strum songs and know your basic chords, can read tabs, and want to play solos, higher on the neck, etc. this book will lay out music theory as it is on the guitar. You'll be thinking and playing different in very little time.
Day 1 my hand cramped so I stopped
day 2 my head cramped so I stopped
day 3 I woke up and couldn't wait to practice and was shredding my acoustic.

Im currently on page 14 and cant wait to dive in to the rest.

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Peter

Great Book but not for me with Attention Deficit

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2022

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I’m more visual and the book doesn’t really address the methods I was looking to implement. Good for what it does but YouTube has helped me more!

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Braden E. Bost

This should be a large part of how you learn the guitar.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2009

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If you're interested in this book, you've probably taken note of some of the negative reviews. Let me say that most of those reviews want this book to be something that it isn't trying to be, and true appreciation of it comes from fully understanding what it IS. (I've seen elsewhere where some people gave low ratings to a guitar tab book because it wasn't a comic book . . . unreal.)

To play guitar well you need to develop skill in three areas.

1) Technique (finger strength/memory, pick/fingering style, hammer-ons and pull-offs, changing between chords, etc.)
2) Understanding the instrument (where notes are on the guitar and in relation to each other)
3) Music Theory (understanding what the notes mean and how they work together)

I have yet to find a single book that tackles all three of these well (and if I did, it would have to be HUGE). Lots and lots of books do the first and third ones together, though I recommend getting separate sources for each so you can get as in-depth as possible. My personal favorites so far are "Guitar Aerobics" for technique and "Music Theory for Guitarists" by Tom Kolb plus "Contemporary Music Theory vol. 1-2" by Mark Harrison for theory.

Lots of books skip that second area, though. The reasons are many. For one, music notation was designed around the piano, so when teaching you theory, they teach you piano. Another reason is many non-keyboarded instruments (namely brass and woodwinds) have relatively simple interfaces, so there's not much reason to spend much time on the concept. And many instructors learned piano FIRST and then learned guitar and visualize notes as a keyboard and not a fretboard and expect their students to do the same (even the aforementioned "Music Theory for Guitarists" starts right out by telling you to get to work on memorizing which frets are which notes--an essential journey but daunting without a good method).

FRETBOARD LOGIC is a book about being able to see the fretboard for what it is: a series of patterns; a matrix of notes. This book is entirely about understanding where things are on the guitar and how to easily find them. To navigate the fretboard. The fretboard is built on a pattern, and Edwards teaches you that pattern in an easy way here.

That pattern is the CAGED sequence. It's nothing new, really, but Edwards' approach is genius in its simplicity. "First: here are the five basic chord shapes; nearly all chords you ever use will be based off of these shapes somehow." "Second: here are the five pentatonic scale shapes; note that they directly relate to those five chord shapes." "Third: here are five diatonic scale shapes; notice how they extend the pentatonic scales--all diatonic scales are built within and between these shapes." "Fourth: here are some alterations to the original chords and scales--don't worry about what each chord is for right now, just learn how they're shaped."

An absolute beginner will have some difficulty with barre chords right off the bat, but learning the CAGED sequence in this way opens up the mystery of the guitar's fretboard almost immediately.

By no means should this be your only guitar book, but by the same token, by no means should you not have this in your library.

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Jeffrey D. Palmatier

An essential resource for guitarists.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 29, 2012

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Bill Edwards' Fretboard Logic is a brilliant explanation of how the notes on the guitar fretboard are laid out. Edwards explains how there are patterns that run up the fretboard in the CAGED sequence. The patterns remain the same no matter what key you're in, although where they are located on the fretboard changes in regards to what key you're in. The explanation of these forms is important to know because it allows you to easily get around the neck. In other words, Edwards' book allows you to see the big picture.

I feel bad for Edwards because I noticed that some people have dismissed this book as yet another scale book. If I had picked up Edwards' method right after I started playing the guitar, I might have had the same mistaken notion. It took years of frustration and dealing with other guitar methods that confused me to allow me to recognize the genius that lies behind Edwards series of books. Edwards' explanation of how the fretboard is laid out allows you to understand how scales, the modes within the scales and chords are laid out and how they are constructed along the length of the neck of the guitar. Once you grasp this information through Edwards' very clear explanations, you will be able to shift between positions, going up and down the neck, no matter what key you're in. Edwards' genius largely lies in the fact that he's able to take information that you get in bits and pieces here and there and puts all together and explains in such a clear manner that it allows you to grasp how the guitar works. When I first started trying to learn scales, I was baffled at what the connection there was between major and minor scales, pentatonic scales, the modes, etc. I realized later when rereading some of the books I used as a young guitarist that they weren't written very clearly or were even misleading. Edwards' explanation explains this in such a clear, straightforward manner that it leaves you stunned by the realization of how easy all of these concepts actually are once it is explained to you in the right way. Edwards' method also allows you to grasp how chords are put together, from the simplest to the most complex and how they are constructed from the CAGED forms. If you are a neophyte guitarist, take the time to learn the information in this book. It will save you years of frustration.

If you've been playing the guitar for a while, this book will probably be very easy to get through since you already know many of the forms that Edwards' presents. After working your way through the book, you'll just know how to finally put all the information you've gathered and understand the big picture in a coherent and systematic way. For example, I've recently been working on learning how to read music in standard notation higher up the neck. Now that I now the CAGED sequence, it's allowed me to hit the right notes much more easily since I know what form I'm using in that position due to the key that I'm in.

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William

Eye opener.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2022

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This is a great book. Helping me to see guitar playing in a entirely different perspective.

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Godot

Promises, Promises.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 20, 2019

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The world has changed since this was written in the 1980s. Some interesting content, but very thinly spread. It reminded me of those old-fashioned music lessons where the teacher spent 90% of the time talking - in general terms and often about himself. A few facts: there are 5 A4 pages devoted entirely to testimonials: What a great book you've written! Then there are 6 pages blank except for 'witty' quotations - 'Inside every fat book is a thin book trying to get out. Anon.' Neither of those things would matter ... except that this IS a book that spends much too long explaining what it is going to teach you - all prefaces and introductions explaining how the book evolved and why it is so much better than most other books. As just one example, the author spends pages 'introducing' components and music theory. He agonises about what written music is and different schools of thought and whether you'd want to learn to read it ... then ONLY explains the music staff and clefs and no more because 'it's a subject that deserves a book of its own'. There ARE some useful ideas here, but it's long-winded and self-indulgent. Look instead at the much cheaper Ultimate Scale Book Pocket Guide Guitar Tab Book which has the advantage of music notation as well as TAB. True, the pocket guide doesn't cover all of the same ground, but it does it concisely and nowadays stuff like CAGED is all free on YouTube.

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The Fretboard Bible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 29, 2017

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I would call this book the bible of the fretboard. Finally a book that really helps you build some good foundation on the fretboard logic.

It uses a very unique and understandable approach on how chords, scales and patterns work on the fretboard without focusing on dump memorization. The most important thing is that it teaches you in a very easy and efficient way on how all these chords and scales (you probably already know) are built.

It is good for both beginners and advanced players as well. Beginners might find it a bit difficult to understand few concepts towards the end of volume II but a second reading from start to end will reveal a lot of precious knowledge.

Highly recommended!

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wertolas

Best Way To Learn Guitar

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2010

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After having the book for a short time and working on the material I would have to say this is the best way to learn guitar for anyone . Straight forward and easy to use this will definitely be my number one recommendation and teaching method.

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Olu

I enjoy the outline of this book and the way the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2016

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This book is superb, I enjoy the outline of this book and the way the writer explains his techniques to readers.
Thank you and I recommend this book to all beginners for adequate understanding of basic music theory for guitarist.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 16, 2017

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Very clear and easy to understand. Finally getting it!

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