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Reddit mentions of Fretboard Mastery
Sentiment score: 4
Reddit mentions: 6
We found 6 Reddit mentions of Fretboard Mastery. Here are the top ones.
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- Untangle the mysterious regions of the guitar fretboard and unlock your potential
- Familiarizes you with all the shapes you need to know by applying them in real musical examples
- 168 pages Fretboard Mastery is a book with accompanying online audio helps you to untangle the mysterious regions of the guitar fretboard and unlock your potential
- Fretboard Mastery familiarizes you with all the shapes you need to know by applying them in real musical examples, thereby reinforcing and reaffirming your newfound knowledge
- The result is a much higher level of comprehension and retention of how to play your guitar
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Specs:
| Height | 12 Inches |
| Length | 9 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | March 2007 |
| Weight | 1.3 Pounds |
| Width | 0.441 Inches |
In my opinion Troy Stetina's Fretboard Mastery is still the most comprehensive, well thought out and explained, and easy to understand guitar theory book. If you could only get one book, this book would cover all you need to understand the instrument.
Beyond that Troy's Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar is very good book of technique building exercises, Dave Celentano's Monster Scales and Modes is a short, easy to read, and good book for referencing some of the most commonly used scales and modes, it also has some short but good description of when and where to use certain scales/modes.
For a more reference/appendix use, I like the Guitar Grimoire books as they have very complete information and are laid out in a fairly easy to read and easy to understand fashion.
I like Troy Stetina's Fretboard Mastery
http://www.amazon.com/Hal-Leonard-Fretboard-Mastery-Book/dp/0793597897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374077797&sr=8-1&keywords=fretboard+mastery
I'm slowly working through Fretboard Mastery by Troy Stetina https://www.amazon.com/Fretboard-Mastery-online-audio-Stetina/dp/0793597897 . Seems to be exactly what you're interested in.
I am a beginner guitarist and have purchased two books based on this thread.
The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer is fantastic. Just a great overall guitar related book.
The Advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick. Way over my head. I look forward to when I get to a level where I can use this book.
There are two other books I recently ordered too.
The Ultimate Scale Book by Troy Setina. I am really enjoying using this book to learn scales. Ok - I am still on the first scale, but I'm purposefully not rushing through them. Matter of fact, most everytime I pick up the book I start reading at page 1 again. And little things just start to click.
I have ordered (but have not yet received) Hal Leonard Fretboard Mastery also by Troy Setina. I'm hoping that using this book concurrently with the scales book will give me good starting point on a well rounded practice regiment.
I will probably order another book or two - I like learning from books. :-)
Great thread resource this is - thank you!
The Guitar Grimoire series is okay, but once you start getting the understanding of scales and modes, you quickly realize how much of that book is unnecessary. Just a lot of needless repetition of scales.
Personally, I found the Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory to be an excellent resource.
If you're looking for something more specific to guitar, any of Troy Stetina's books will touch on theory a little bit, but Fretboard Mastery covers it in extensively and is really good.
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Could be helpful, I've got it and it's got everything I want to know and more