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Serious about jamming, understanding, and creating guitar-driven music? Easy.
With an approachable and engaging style, Guitar Theory For Dummies goes beyond guitar basics, presenting the guidance intermediate to advanced players need to improve their improvisational and compositional skills. Plus, with access to audio tracks and video instruction online you can master the concepts and techniques covered in the book.
Key content coverage includes pentatonic and major scale patterns; the CAGED chord system, chord progressions, and playing by numbers; roots, keys, and applying scales, plus modes and modal scales; intervals and chord extensions; popular song references and theory applications that help you understand how to play popular music and contemporary guitar styles, and create music of your own.
- This title also features companion audio tracks and video content hosted online at Dummies.com
- The expert instruction and easy-to-digest information provides comprehensive guidance on how to apply music theory concepts to fretted instruments
If you already have a handle on the basics and want to know more about the building blocks and theory behind guitar music, Guitar Theory For Dummies has you covered.
Download Guitar Theory For Dummies Book + Online Video Audio Instruction Desi Serna 9781118646779 Books
"This review is not about the content of the book, but the quality of the print.
The time is April 2019 and the copies of the book I keep returning and receiving as a replacements have this designation:
"Manufactured in the United States of America
V10005267_102418"
So, I have been buying and returning the copies of these book due to the issues with the print quality, but the replacement copies I keep receiving are no better then the those I return (It looks like nobody reads what your write as a cause of return anyway) so I suppose there's no point in keep trying further.
The text has blurry and ghostly print which makes reading it hard and causes tremendous strain to the eyes (your brain thinks your eye lenses are out of focus or that your eyeballs are not properly aligned). Guitar tabs are mostly unreadable and chord/scale diagrams (black dots with white lettering inside those black dots) are almost all unreadable in case of smaller size diagrams and hardly readable in case of bigger ones.
Look at the photos I made, and keep in mind that those are very enlarged (something your eyes are not able to do) and made with hi-res camera, so that should give you some idea how it may look in real life.
I prefer to steer my efforts towards learning/playing music instead of struggling with the reading while being constantly reminded that I've paid $17 for half a pound of lowest quality recycled thin yellow paper ruined by unreadable print (blank pages would be far better than this).
Good luck if you're buying this book one of these days."
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Guitar Theory For Dummies Book + Online Video Audio Instruction Desi Serna 9781118646779 Books Reviews
- I have been struggling to understand and learn guitar for twenty years. (Not a typo.) In that time I've had seven guitar teachers. Some were expensive. A couple had good technique. All failed to make sense to me. I own a LOT of guitar books - spiral bound books packed with mysterious chord shapes, theory books from famous schools, method books, classical books - all gathering dust. I've tried it all.
Only once I found Desi's book and his free podcasts did it all "click" so I could begin to play. I'm not performing yet, but for the very first time, I understand the full "landscape" of the guitar, why I'm learning scales, why a chord is what it is, how all the pieces fit together.
Words can't describe how grateful I am for this book. I hope it brings you similar joy. (And if, like me, you prefer to "understand" what you're doing, I'm sure it will.) - I started this book four times and finally gave up on it.
I buy a 'for dummies' books because I need a lot of explanation and a lot of verbose examples.
I do not want to pay for a tutor to explain the book to me.
This book does provide a lot of good and useful information, but
I struggled with some of the textual presentation (expected), but I expect the examples to 'turn the light on'.
The book examples are poorly linked to the text and I often felt I was 'missing the point'
(I have no comment on the optional audio examples that can be downloaded).
I spent four hours to get to page 27 'intervals' and said, 'there has to be a better book'
The discussion of 'intervals' is particularly poor. Words like 'degrees' is used, but never explained
The book also has no glossary and 75% of the index is references to songs.
This could be a good book for someone with a basic understanding of music theory, but not me.
I have been playing guitar for 15 years.
I understand basic chords, shapes, scales,... but I am missing the 'secret ingredient'.
I want to confidently jump around the fretboard while jamming with my friends.
I also wanted to learn 'modes', but did not get that far.
I will look for a 'dummer' book! - This is a great book for the intermediate player who has been playing and has good guitar familiarity and wants to take playing to the next level. I have been playing most my life, and in only two days, I am so much to better navigate the fretboard. Definitely a good buy!!
- I am still in the process of reading this book. But I have definitely learned a lot so far. Things that for the past 30+ years I have never understood, until now. Modes being a big thing for me. I understood the concept of a Mode, but I never really understood them till now. Now I have the order memorized. I use the pneumonic of "I Don't Play Loud Music Am Loud", but then I searched google and found others like "I Don't Play Like My Aunt Lucy" which is sticking in my head too.
Anyway, more about this book. I've know some scales, many things about the guitar, but now I am getting a much better deep understanding of what that means. From using IV to iii as notation for major or minor chords. Or what a flatted third truly means in music and in how things sound.
I still have about 100 pages left in this book, and I plan of reading it fully though 2 more times, so that I never forget a thing again.
I am having more fun in my playing/improvising. Where I just start playing a scale and triads and combining the progression in ways I never thought of before and I love how they sound. - A must read to take guitar playing to the next level. This book is key to growth in understanding of the fretboard. I was stuck in a rut of somewhere between advanced beginner and hopeful intermediate. I could play riffs I learned through YOU TUBE and I new some scales, mostly minor pentatonic first position and some of the second but struggled using them together. I knew all the notes on the first and second strings. I knew most of the basic chords, open and barre chords.
I knew I had to get past there. I knew doors needed to be opened in my understanding. Needed the keys. Desi Serna has the keys in this book.
If you love the instrument as much as I do, don't rip yourself off. Get the book. - This review is not about the content of the book, but the quality of the print.
The time is April 2019 and the copies of the book I keep returning and receiving as a replacements have this designation
"Manufactured in the United States of America
V10005267_102418"
So, I have been buying and returning the copies of these book due to the issues with the print quality, but the replacement copies I keep receiving are no better then the those I return (It looks like nobody reads what your write as a cause of return anyway) so I suppose there's no point in keep trying further.
The text has blurry and ghostly print which makes reading it hard and causes tremendous strain to the eyes (your brain thinks your eye lenses are out of focus or that your eyeballs are not properly aligned). Guitar tabs are mostly unreadable and chord/scale diagrams (black dots with white lettering inside those black dots) are almost all unreadable in case of smaller size diagrams and hardly readable in case of bigger ones.
Look at the photos I made, and keep in mind that those are very enlarged (something your eyes are not able to do) and made with hi-res camera, so that should give you some idea how it may look in real life.
I prefer to steer my efforts towards learning/playing music instead of struggling with the reading while being constantly reminded that I've paid $17 for half a pound of lowest quality recycled thin yellow paper ruined by unreadable print (blank pages would be far better than this).
Good luck if you're buying this book one of these days. - I'm extremely happy with this book. It is an easy read. I have been playing guitar for 10 years though and you should be somewhat experienced before buying. You should know the basics of guitar and some of the terminology if you want to fully understand the concepts an explanations.
