Guitar Theory For Dummies: Book + Online Video & Audio Instruction

Learn to: Look at theory from a guitar player's perspective Understand how music "works" on the fretboard Unravel the secrets to your favorite songs Navigate the fretboard like the pros View video demonstrations and listen to audio tracks online Serious about understanding and creating guitar-driven music? Easy. Guitar Theory For Dummies goes beyond guitar basics, presenting information on how music works and gets applied to the guitar fretboard. It provides the guidance you need to play songs and improve your improvisational and compositional skills. Plus, access to audio tracks and video instruction online help you master the concepts and techniques covered in the book. If you already have a handle on the basics and want to take your understanding and playing of guitar music to the next level, Guitar Theory For Dummies has you covered. Guitar Theory 101 — find out how guitar theory will change the way you hear and learn music and navigate your way around the fretboard From the ground up — discover how major scale triads make chords (and what those little numbers mean in chord names) and play any major or minor chord using the guitar CAGED system Make progress — understand where chord progressions come from, how related chords are grouped together, and why musicians play by number Don't scale back — start using popular scale patterns to play guitar solos, melodies, riffs, and bass lines Guitar Theory applications — explore popular songs and music to help you with your playing style and in creating your own original music Visit Dummies.com to: Improve your skills by listening to and playing along with audio tracks and viewing videos demonstrating concepts and examples from the book Open the book and find Why certain elements of music go together How to form chords, assemble chord progressions, and apply scales Popular song and guitarist references Ways to identify tonal centers, keys, and key changes Ten guitar songs worth learning Sample scale patterns Tips on putting guitar theory into practice Access to audio tracks and video instruction

Desi Serna, hailed as a music theory expert by Rolling Stone magazine, is a guitar player and teacher with over 10,000 hours of experience providing private guitar lessons and classes. He owns and operates one of the most popular guitar theory sites on the web, guitar-music-theory.com.