Product Description

This book uses extremely simple language to explain the basics of music theory. Exercises require the student to write out examples using staff notation and find these notes on the guitar fretboard. Exercises include simple interval to highly complex chords.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #799330 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

From the Publisher
We are very excited about Mr. Arnold's Workbook series. The feedback we have received has validated our instincts that the books are a long-needed breakthrough in music education. Mr. Arnold has culled from his many years of teaching both privately and on the university level, and has provided information and teaching approaches which have never been presented in quite this way. The serious student will find the books to be a real "Rosetta Stone" for music theory and its application, while the professional musician will find them to be bountiful compendiums of information and lifelong companions in the voyage of musical discovery.

From the Inside Flap
Many of my students have asked me how they can improve their music theory and fretboard knowledge. This book is an attempt to fill those needs.

Learning the language of music is imperative to becoming a professional musician or communicating intelligently with other musicians, but more importantly, applying this knowledge to your instrument will give you the ability to create music with greater flexibility , coherence, and confidence.

Future volumes of this Music Theory Workbook series will cover scales and diatonic chords of a key both of which are very important to playing and understanding music. See the final pages of this book for a complete listing and description of current music related publications.

A very special thank you goes to Tina Sobin for her patient and meticulous work in editing this book.

From the Back Cover
Music Theory Workbook for Guitar is an excellent learning tool for both the beginner who has no knowledge of music theory, and the advanced student looking to improve their knowledge of the guitar fretboard. An easy to understand music theory section is included to help a beginner understand the basic theory of interval and chord construction. This book takes a student from the most simple construction of basic intervals to the most advanced chord structure while at all times applying this to the guitar fretboard. All answers are included in the book so a students can check their work.

Customer Reviews

Not exactly what I expected
This workbook has both fretboard and staff notation to build chords and concentrates on building intervals and chord construction (maj, min, 7th, and jazz chords). No thrills but very straight forward.

This book is not for beginners and probably aimed toward the seasoned guitarist or college musician with theory knowledge.

Horrible.
Music is supposed to be fun. Based upon that premise, this book is entirely worthless. Buy this book if you want to become a music snob that breaks everything down until it becomes unbeautiful. If you'd rather learn music through experience instead of locking yourself at a table with a pen and pencil, then skip this book. All it really is, is empty pages with diagrams for you to fill in. Why dissect a butterfly? Just catch and release. I feel sorry for Arnold's students.

Immensely Beneficial
This book has been the most challenging and rewarding I've come across as a guitar player - and I have spent hundreds on guitar/theory books.

This is a workbook as the title states, so after a few introductory pages and some basic theory you are presented with nothing but empty pages waiting to be filled. One page covers one chord type and given a root note, a staff, and a chord diagram you are expected to fill in the correct notes. With some work the intervals become burned into your head - both their placement on the staff and physical location on the guitar neck.

Bruce Arnold's website is http://muse-eek.com and there you can find more information about this book and other related books. You may not need to reference it since all of the answers are in the back of the book, but it is still worth visiting.

I can't recommend this book enough if you are serious about learning intervals, chord construction, and the neck of the guitar.