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| Fretboard Roadmaps: The Essential Guitar Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use (Guitar Techniques): The Essential Guitar Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use (Guitar Techniques) | 
 enlarge | Author: Fred Sokolow
Publisher: H.Leonard Publishing,U.S.
Category: Book
List Price: £9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 613
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0793520886
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999069822
EAN: 9780793520886
Publication Date: August 1, 1993
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Condition: Brand New. Shipped from UK Mainland. Delivery is usually 4 - 5 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail.
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 Playing for years and stuck - now unstuck June 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In common with most of the other reviewers I really rate this book. Easy to read, few words, lots of good stuff presented in a visual way which suits me. It was also not expensive (I think I paid a little over 5) it's good value.
I've been playing for years (decades!) but never really got to know my way around the fret board and my chord playing was always well, quite amateur which I found an embarrassment. There are simple things in this book which have really lifted my playing. I now use a wide variety of chords and different shapes to produce more interesting playing; now I can play each verse of a song with a different set of chords. My "ear" has also improved and I can pretty much pay in any key, any where (after a quick look at the book). I did hope to have a bit more on the blues in this book, but this is great for all the standard rock, folk, jazzy, funky stuff which I play most of the time.
A few small draw backs - 1) some of the examples used by the author I don't know and as my sight reading is poor I can't access all the examples in the book even with tab - but why worry? - just make your own up - I did. 2) the two note lick section is not too well explained, but with some exploratory playing (and a lot of duff notes) I managed to get something tuneful. Should I ever go back to teaching (probably my children - whom I hope will blow me away musically one day) I'd use this book as a reference. I'm going to buy the blues road map next.
circle of fiths March 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have several "learn to play" guitar books, most of which are rather dry reading. This one stands out a mile because it is simple and yet exciting. When you work your way through the roadmaps you begin to understand a lot more about the guitar as an instrument. I have the DVD and some other books in the series, all worth buying despite some areas of overlap. Highly recommended.
A must-have guitar book September 1, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
After years of wishing I could play the guitar, I finally took it up two years ago. Coming cold into the world of music theory was scary and somewhat frustrating, in that there were no books or websites that really explained the guitar in a way I could understand and apply.
After reading the positive Amazon reviews for Fretboard Roadmaps, I bought it, along with the now also-essential Rikky Rooksby books 'How to write songs on guitar' and'Little Book of Chords'. Together, these three books have given me an undertanding and appreciation I only previosly dreamed of. Without these,and a lot of practice, I would still be floundering-around in tabworld, and not have made such satisfying progress.
Fretboard Roadmaps is a workbook that clearly lays out how moveable chord shapes are inter-related with scales, which allow you to deduce your way around the fretboard. This is a far better way for me to learn, meaning no blindly tedious learning a bunch of scales. With Fretboard Roadmaps, once you learn the shapes and the relationships, you're good to go for transferring the sounds in your head to your guitar and further.
In short, with this book, I am gaining the ability to play the guitar 'by ear' , a lifelong ambition.
WOW August 24, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although i haven't even picked up my guitar yet this book seems like a very precise and comprehensive guide to the modes. I've been looking for a guide like this for a long time and now i finally have it!
Also, a plus is the fact that the licks arn't half bad!
I look forward to pick up my axe and apply my new found knowledge :)
A typical 'roadmap' book - first class. May 15, 2007
32 out of 32 found this review helpful
There are several books in the 'Roadmap' series and they all share the same attributes. This one is no exception and is slightly better than most.
They all cover pretty standard ground in terms of popular licks, phrases and 'boxes' within which to play and improvise.
Despite brief introductions, they all assume at least some familiarity with the guitar fretboard and the reading of either notation or tablature. It is fair to say that to get the best out of these books, you do need SOME experience. Raw beginners might find this particular book a bit heavy going at first because it moves fairly rapidly from one technique or style to another and doesn't set out to teach you in an especially linear way. If you're that new to the guitar, think of this book as one to grow into once you have some basic knowledge and experience.
All roadmap books cover a lot of ground in very little space in both great detail and in a well-developed style that is very easy to follow.
In short - the 'Roadmap' series set out to provide you with a good repertoire of skills and licks and then show you how to develop them in your own playing.
Briefly, the content of this book covers the following topics:
the fretboad
the major scale and intervals
barre E and A chords, root notes and simple progressions
I -- IV -- V chord family, moveable chords and basic blues
D -- A -- F roadmap and inversions
chord fragments, families, licks, strums and arpeggios
circle-of-fifths progressions and how to use the whole fretboard
learning many differerent chord types
moveable major scales and playing melodies
moveable blues scales
major pentatonic scales
a moveable double-note lick for country, blues, rock and R&B (and that's the true 'Rhythm 'n' Blues' not the modern mish-mash of soul/hiphop and urbanised grumblings as chanted by groin-grabbing wailers).
Of all the books in the 'Roadmap' series, this one sets out to do slightly more in that it lays down a foundation for all the other styles to be built upon. Thus many of the topics are looked at again in some of the specialised books (eg: bluegrass and folk). But this is not a weakness or an easy get-out.
Highly recommended for anyone who wants a good introduction to ideas that they can learn, develop and tghen make their own.
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