Books

KNOW YOUR GUITAR: BOOK ONE

Mastering the Fingerboard
(Muscle Memory, Octaves, and the Pentatonic Scale.

By master instructor and guitarist Paul Christopulos. Guitar instruction for players ages 12 and up. This simple, elegant guide to learning the guitar fingerboard will get it under your fingers for life.

From the back cover:

We don’t teach our fingers to play, they teach us. Sure, you may need to think a little when you try a new phrase, but you develop skill by playing it carefully and accurately, again and again.

Using muscle memory, Know Your Guitar: Book One guides players through octaves, the minor pentatonic scale, and the blues scale as building blocks to knowing the fingerboard.

—Twenty-three step-by-step lessons

—Exercises in standard notation, with tablature and fingering

—Simple explanations in plain language

—Easy-to-read charts

Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-9777856-0-5
Wavegirl Books
8.5 in x 11.5 in

To purchase via return mail, please email Paul at sonomaguitar (@) gmail.com.

Excerpt:

Use this book to supplement your practice routine. Spend five or ten minutes each day with the material before going on to your other musical projects. Allow about a week for each lesson—some more, some less.

This book is designed to help you master the fingerboard. Be patient, practice regularly, and enjoy the results.

—Paul Christopulos