MASTER THE FRETBOARD

LEARN TO PRACTICE FOR MAXIMUM RESULTS

ALL EXAMPLES WRITTEN IN BOTH TAB AND STANDARD MUSICAL NOTATION

WRITTEN BY A REAL LIFE WORKING MUSICIAN/ TEACHER

WITH A MUSIC DEGREE AND OVER 20 YEARS TEACHING/GIGGING EXPERIENCE

Learn The Must Know Information To Take Your Playing To The Next Level

AUTHOR HOLDS ALL COPYRIGHTS TO THIS WORK

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WANT TO MASTER THE FRETBOARD

The Must Know Information is Right Here.

Master the Order of Notes And Effortlessly Find Any Note On The Fretboard

Master Major and Minor Scales in all 12 Keys

Master Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales In All 12 Keys

Master Vital Fretboard Patterns and Shapes

Find I-IV-V/(Root/Fifth)/(Root/Octave) Patterns At Will

I've See Many Books/DvDs Claiming Fretboard Mastery in as Little As One Week

Many Claim You'll Have the Fretboard Down in as Little as 1 Hour

This is simply Not True, Don't Buy Into This False Sense of Reality

Mastering The Fretboard Takes Some Work

It Doesn't Have to Be Hard or Painful and Finding Your Way Around Can Be Easier Than You May Think

It will just take Longer Than 1 week and certainly longer than 1 Hour

The First Step in Fretboard Mastery is simply Finding Your Way Around

This Takes Knowing a Few Basic Things and A Good Mental Game Plan for Retaining The Information

What You Really Need to Know is Your Order of Notes

Followed Up By Understanding a Few Basic Patterns and Shapes

Once You Get a Feel For How Your Guitar is Laid Out

Finding Any Note or Pattern At Will Becomes a Breeze

You Will Deepen Theses Connections For The Rest of Your Life

Meaning Fretboard Mastery is a Life Long Study

I Will Give You The Vital First Steps on Your Way to Fretboard Mastery

       Master Basic Picking Skills That Make Fast Lines or Riffs A Breeze

Master Essential Finger Picking Skills For Finger Style Playing

It Just Takes Knowing a Few Basic Things And Exactly How To Go About Practicing Them

WANT TO MASTER BLAZING FAST LEFT HAND RUNS

Build Finger Independence

Build Speed/Accuracy and Stamina

Master Vital Patterns and Shapes

Master Hammer-on/Pull-off /Shifts and Sliding Techniques

WHY IS CORRECT PRACTICE SUCH A SECRET

It Isn’t any longer as I show You Exactly “What To Practice”

And More Importantly, “How To Practice” for Maximum Results

Increase Productivity Many Times Over as You Master Essential Practice Skills

Mastering a Instrument Really Takes Two Things:

What and How

What to Practice

How to Practice

If you Really Want To See Serious Improvement

If You Feel Your Going Nowhere

If Your Forever Stuck In A Rut

Blame Your Practice Skills

Learn What Real Practice Is

Learn To Get More Out of 15 mins of Practice Than You Currently Are Getting Out of 1 Hour

Do You Know What Real Practice Is

If Not How Can You Be Sure Your Getting Anything At All From Your Efforts

The Number 1 Reason Would Be Players Never Get Where They're Going

Is They Simply Do Not Know How To Practice

In a Manner That Guarantees Positive Results

Stop Wasting Valuable Time and Learn To Really Practice

Your Musical Dreams Will Thank You For It

This Book is Designed to not Simply Teach You How to Play

But More Importantly How to Think and Use the Information for Yourself

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CONTENTS

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Building Basic Technique:

If we want to learn to play, we must first start with a solid foundation.

The Beginner will learn basic Finger Independence, while the more experienced player will learn to take there Technique to a higher level.

Learn What to Practice and Most Importantly "How to Practice" to Get The Results You Want.

If You want to Improve You Must Practice.

If you Don’t Know How To Practice, How Can You Improve?

It’s Been My Experience That Most Players Biggest Flaw Is There Practice Skills.

They Really Don’t Know How To Practice In A Manor That achieves Maximum Results In The Shortest Time Possible.

Stop Wasting Valuable Practice Time and Learn To Practice Correctly.

Master Essential Alternate Picking and String Crossing Skills

Master Alternative Economy or Mini-Sweep Picking Skills

Master Finger Style Independence and Alternating Skills

Master Finger Style Sweeping Skills

Learn About Incorporating The Thumb in a Classical Guitar Manor for Arpeggio Based Accompaniment Patterns.

Build Speed/Accuracy/Stamina with the Pick or Fingers

Learn The Secret Practice Weapon

If You Want to Master the Instrument In The Quickest Way Possible This Is a Must Have Skill.

It Really Isn’t So Much a Secret, As Something Seldom If Ever Discussed Outside of a Conservatory or Serious Music Program.

Remember the Greatest Weapon We Have Is Our Mind.

It Only Makes Sense That If We Want To Learn In The Quickest Most Efficient Way Possible, We Must Learn To Use Our Mind To Our Fullest Potential When Practicing.

Master the Essential Diatonic Major And Minor Scale Patterns.

Increase Fretboard Know How by Mastering a Small Sequences

Learn to Build Longer Runs By Combining Small Scales Sequences

Further Refine Our Basic Technique Through Scale Sequences and Patterns

Learn How To Actually Practice Theses Patterns for Maximum Results

Diatonic Scales in All 12 Keys:

Learn to Master the Major and Minor Scale Patterns In All 12 Keys

Exercises for Mastering the Art of Shifting the Patterns

The Beauty Here Is: We Don’t Really Learn Anything New, We Just Learn How to Re-use What We Already Know.

A Key Scale In Rock/Blues Country Music.

Learn The Pentatonic Major And Minor Scales in all 12 Keys

Learn What Parallel and Relative Scales Are

Exercises for Pentatonic Mastery

Legato Studies:

Build Fret Hand Speed/Stamina/Accuracy

Exercises and Workout for Building Serious Hammer-on and Pull-Off Chops

Learn Valuable Shifting and Sliding Skills for the Frethand

Build Increased Finger Independence/Speed and Accuracy through Permutation Exercises.

Learn to Create a Never Ending Series of Variations to Challenge New Technical Demands.

Learn one of the Most Overlooked Concepts for Bass or Guitar.

This is a Must for Effortlessly Moving Across The Neck and Understanding Intervals.

Learn to Visually See as Well as Hear Intervals with Basic Ear Training Exercises

Learn to Put Your New Found Skills To Work In The Real Musical World

Learn Basic Musical Form and Concepts for Building Your Own Bass Lines

Exercises and Examples Teach Us Root Patterns and Rhythmical Variation.

Learn to Play and Easily Find Root/Fifth/Octave Lines

Learn Chromatic and Diatonic Approach Notes

Learn Some Common Bass Lines/Licks and Riffs

Making Music-Chord Progressions and Bass Lines:

Put Our Skills to The Test Playing Over a Common Set of Chord Progressions

This is Where We Get to Put All Our Previous Learn Knowledge to the Ultimate Test.

Exercises and Workouts for Creating Real Life Bass Lines

Master Essential Practice Skills to Easily Find Common Root/Fifth/Octave Patterns

Practice Incorporating Diatonic and Chromatic Approach Notes Into Our Lines

In Short: Really Get To Know The Fretboard

Making Music-More Lines Licks and Riffs:

A Collection of Bass Lines/Licks and Riffs to add to our Musical Arsenal.

Designed as a set of Real Life Musical Ideas and Concepts

Further Refine Our Understanding of the Fretboard

Walk Away with a Collection of Great Lines and Licks to add to Our Playing

Further Refine Our Chops with Real Musical Examples

Music Theory-Basic Major Scale Construction:

Learn 3 Basic Rules For Building Major Scales

Learn Where Key Signatures Come From

A Very Easy to Understand Lesson in Basic Music Theory

Music Theory-Scale Alteration and Perspective Chart:

Learn to Build New Scales, such as Harmonic Minor by Simple Scale Alteration

By Altering a Note or Two From What We Know we Can Easily Master Other Scales.

Complete With an Easy to Understand Chart and a Discussion on How to View Relative Scales and Modes

There’s Tons of Information in this Book,

Limited only by what Your Willing to Do With It.

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HIGHLIGHTS INCULDE:

Pg3 Chapter: Introduction to Basic Technique

Pg4 Practice Philosophy

Pg5 Practice Rules for Maximum Results

Pg6 Alternate Picking

Pg7 Open Single String Alternate Picking Exercise

Pg8 The Metronome and Basic Counting

Pg11 Alternate Picking String Crossing Exercises

Pg13 Alternate Picking String Skipping Exercises

Pg14 Fret Hand Finger Independence Exercises

Pg17 Synchronization for Both Hands

Pg18 Two Finger Group Fret Hand Exercises

Pg18 Practice Rules for Maximum Results

Pg20 Two Finger Group String Crossing Exercises

Pg23 More Two Finger Group Variations

Pg24 Introduction to Shifting Positions Exercises

Pg26 Alternate Picking Odd vs. Even Amount of Notes

Pg26 Alternate Picking Inside vs. Outside Picking

Pg27 Inside and Outside Alternate Picking Exercises

Pg30 Economy Picking or Mini-Sweep Picking Exercises

Pg33 Finger Style Alternating Exercises

Pg34 Finger Style Synchronization Exercises

Pg35 Finger Style Alternating Exercises Odd Amount of Notes

Pg36 Taking It to Left Field

Pg37 Finger Style Sweeping Exercises

Pg40 Finger Style Sweeping and Synchronization Exercises

Pg41 Finger Style Classical Guitar Like Study