Barry Galbraith Jazz Guitar Study 1 -- The Fingerboard Workbook: Concepts In Logical Fingering

This book is fantastic! I have recently made the decision to take up jazz guitar and to try and learn note-reading on the guitar (I can already read notes with the piano). This book has helped me tremendously in learning the fretboard in terms of notation. True, it's standard practice for jazz guitarists to learn horn lines, but it's also true that the guitar is its own instrument and has its own tuning and fingerings. Hence the need to learn the fretboard in its entirety. In that regard, Galbraith's exercises help especially when it comes to moving up and down the entire fretboard, and it is excellent in terms of teaching you how to move "in and out" in between set fret positions. I play the exercises in both straight 8ths as well as swung 8ths. They sound great musically and are satisfyingly challenging. I play them both as warmups and to learn arpeggios and other patterns. I recommend using a metronome, starting off slowly and then gradually increasing speed. I've also seen some videos online (YouTube) of folks doing these, which help to hear because there's no accompanying CD included. Barry Galbraith was a genius on the guitar in terms of simplicity and fretboard efficiency. I recommend his chord melody solo books that you can also find here on amazon (the blue and red books). Good stuff.

Just work on it a little every day and you will internalize it and it'll start to come out in your playing.

All of Barry Galbraith's books are worth owning and working through. This book will not only work the heck out of your left hand but also every exercise is actually a beautiful, useable phrase to add to your lick archive.

Good material for any guitarist.

I bought this book when I was 18. I am now 55 and I still use it from time to time, though I do have different objectives than I did then. This book presents a series of 8th note etudes that pretty much cover every conceivable fingerboard movement. There are no chord changes marked; Barry tell us we are to do our own analysis. And to get the most out of the exercises you really do have to do this. There is no rhythmic variation in the exercises; just a steady stream of 8ths that have you moving over the range of the guitar. Once you have figured out the chord changes the studies will make a lot more sense. This single book, more than any other, helped me to develop a professional, single note technique. I think it took me about a year to really get the exercises under my fingers, for the fingerings to become second nature. My copy is old and yellow now. The pages are enclosed in plastic in a binder. I think it's about time I bought a second ecition.

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I own the third volume of this Aebersold series, but I was into reading another one and then I discovered this volume. Logical fingering is essential for jazz guitarists and all the studies from this book help you develop a new way to face changes and the entire fretboard. Must have. I use it in conjuction with Mark White's from Bach to Bebop. Very nice!

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