Introduction and Overview
Playing songs is fun. It’s interesting and stimulating to learn new songs or even riffs and licks from songs. However, practicing scales, learning notes and other similar basic tasks can become quite tedius. That is why many of us as guitar players (and I suspect players of other instruments) tend to avoid these sorts of things.
Also, the majority of guitar players that I run across nowadays, tend to be self-taught. So many are lacking in basic music theory and other fundamental skills – like being able to identify notes or intervals on the fretboard. As we attempt to tackle more complex musical tasks, or communicate with fellow musicians, at some point we begin to see where we are lacking in some of our basic skills.
This is precisely why I became interested in the Guitar Note Mastery product. I was curious if this was a suitable product to fill at least part of that fundamental music knowledge gap for many guitarists.
Product Overview
E-book: Guitar Note Mastery is a downloadable e-book delivered in PDF format. The course consists of 48 pages of instruction and progressively harder exercises to eventually enable one to instantly identify any note on the fretboard.
To insure participation from the student, the course is filled with a logical succession of “Action Steps”. This material is not meant to be a passive read.
Bonus: At the time of this review, the course came with a 62-page bonus e-book entitled Guitar Note Accelerator which presented more techniques and exercises to augment the main course.
Price: at the time of this writing, Guitar Note Mastery is priced at a very resonable $17.00
Guarantee: Guitar Note Mastery comes with a No-Risk, 60-Day, Ironclad, Money-back guarantee. This is excellent. 60-days is plenty of time to determine if you are satisfied with the product.
What I Liked About Guitar Note Mastery
What I liked was the fact that the author held your hand and lead you on a journey through increasingly-complex material. Guitar Note Mastery was very logical and systematic.
We began with memorizing natural notes and intervals on paper and then proceeded to identifying them on the guitar – one string at a time – and only below the 12th fret.
Then there were clever exercises involving a metronome in which we were instructed to find random notes on the fretboard.
Later sharps and flats were introduced, and then notes above the 12th fret, then chords, then scales… Soon we were working the entire fretboard – all the time being guided by a logical sequence of “Action steps” and exercises.
What I Didn’t Like About Guitar Note Mastery
Guitar Note Mastery was a little plain-looking for my taste. It was mostly just plain old Times Roman text on white paper. However the fretboard diagrams were very well done and pretty sophistocated looking.
Also, there were a few exercises where the author did things like tell you to spend 30 minutes on your own figuring out good ways to remember notes, or similar fluff exercises. I don’t like these kinds of free-form exercises. I much preferred the well-structured approach that the majority of the book followed.
Rating
I give Guitar Note Mastery 4.5 out of 5 guitars. It did not warrent five stars in my opinion mostly because of the two small issues mentioned above.
Despite these two small flaws, I feel that Guitar Scale Mastery is a very methodical and well-structured course for thoroughly learning the fretboard. Through a logical progression of “Action Steps” the author leads us along a clear path to fretboard mastery. Of course the responsibility for doing the work falls squarely on the shoulders of the student - but that is the way it should be.
If you are interested in mastering your fretboard, I recommend checking out this quality product:
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Bob Matthews
Editor: www.Learn-Guitar-Quick.com