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Fretboard Roadmaps: The Essential Guitar Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use (Guitar Techniques) | 
| Author: Fred Sokolow
Publisher: H.Leonard Publishing,U.S.
Category: Book
New (11) Used (5) from £2.93
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 550
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
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
ASIN: 0793520886
Publication Date: August 1, 1993
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Well organised book September 24, 2008
Dave Archer (Andover Hampshire UK)
I thought this book was extremely intuitive and with an easy writing style.
I liked the many diagrams which makes understanding the chord patterns easier.
However, being left handed, I also found the book very hard going, where I have to transpose over every tab notation and chord diagram.
I would not recommend this book for left handed players, although I would happily buy it again if Fred Sokolow would write and publish a left handed version of this book.
Hard work - but worth it August 31, 2008
Three Chord Trick (Ireland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great value book - but you will have to take it slowly and work carefully on each lesson. I am only on lesson three after two months, but boy, have I learned a lot - it's exactly what I wanted after years of messing about: where to play, say, a C chord anywhere on the fret, or how a minor seventh chord is made up. Thoroughly recommended.
 Playing for years and stuck - now unstuck June 2, 2008
M. J. Miles (London, UK)
2 out of 2 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
blueandwhite050505 (UK)
5 out of 5 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
gowanouttadat (Netherlands)
15 out of 15 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.
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