Fingerboard Theory for Guitar

Mel Bay Publications
A Music Theory Text for Guitarists


This book contains concepts of music theory presented in such a way as to be easily understood by guitarists. All of the concepts are presented sequentially in an easy-to-follow formant using the guitar fingerboard as the visual tool.


Contents include:

• 01) Fundamentals      
• 02) Major Scales      
• 03) Key Signatures      
• 04) Minor Scales      
• 05) Relative Major and Minor      
• 06) Intervals      
• 07) Inverted Intervals      
• 08) Transposing      
• 09) Triads      
• 10) Inverted Triads      
• 11) Triads In A Major Key      
• 12) Triads In A Minor Key      
• 13) Harmonizing A Melody With Triads      
• 14) Doubling Triad Notes      
• 15) Four-String Chords      
• 16) Harmonizing A Melody With Four-String Chords      
• 17) Suspended Chords      
• 18) Sixth Chords      
• 19) Seventh Chords      
• 20) Chord Embellishment      
• 21) Chord Construction (Fingerings)      
• 22) Slash Chords      
• 23) Secondary Dominants      
• 24) Common Chord Progressions      
• 25) Pentatonic Scales      
• 26) Blues Progressions      
• 27) Blues Scale      
• 28) Raised-Two-And-Three Chords      
• 29) Raised-Two Chords      
• 30) Drop-Two Chords      
• 31) Cadences      
• 32) Modes      
• 33) Diminished Scale      
• 34) Whole Tone Scale      
• 35) Augmented Scale      
• 36) Chord Substitution      
• 37) Neopolitan Sixth and Augmented Sixth Chords      
• 38) Quartal Harmony      
• 39) Diatonic Substituion and Quartal Harmony