Bill Edwards Publishing Fretboard Logic I: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning - Edwards - Guitar - Book

Author: Bill Edwards
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Guitar

The guitar, as tuned, is unlike any other instrument ever invented. Fretboard Logic is the first ever method to recognize this and teaches from a unique guitar-oriented perspective. It presents the essential characteristics of the fretboard as the first step toward learning without guesswork or rote memorization. Volume I focuses on the hidden pattern organization of the fretboard that results from the guitar's unique tuning. The intervallic structure created by the tuning is unlike any other instrument and creates three specific pattern types which are integral to one another and have been termed Chord Forms, Scale Forms and Lead Patterns, in order to distinguish them from their related musical terms. There are five basic chord forms, five basic scale forms and two basic lead patterns which are completely independent of any music concepts and solely the result of an ingenious pitch selection by an unknown (and unsung) inventor. Since every other aspect of guitar playing, such as theory, technique, and style, must be expressed through this fretboard interface, no other single area of education can be more fundamental to a guitar player's development. Originally entitled "The CAGED System," Fretboard Logic presents all the aspects of the fretboard pattern organization as a unified "operating system" for guitar players regardless of stylistic preferences, technical considerations or guitar type.