Beginning Guitar for the New Millinium is a great starting point for the complete beginner, showing you the essentials:

• Tuning
• Posture
• Basic open position chords
• Simple jazz chords
• Barr chords
• Beginning site reading
• Rhythm strumming
• Keys

The Fretboard Rosette: the key to mastering the guitar fretboard, is an essential frame of reference for learning the many chord, arpeggio and scale patterns that you need to know. While the octave interval dictates the shape of the guitar neck, the sub dominant interval dictates the tuning of the guitar. Therefore, in ordert to master the instrument, you need to develop a working knowledge of how scales, chords, and arpeggios are inter-related according this side-to-side tuning pattern of the fretboard. Good guitarists learn these relationships through years of playing without necessarily being able to explain what they do. This book demonstrates and explains these important relationships explicitly by providing you with:

• Numerous fingerboard charts
• Clear explanations and examples
• A thorough treatment of first principles

Guitar Reading Rosette: A key to mastering essential scales and arpeggios, shows you how to overcome the difficulties for guitar sight reading in all keys and positions. You get the following:

• A portable and easy-to-use hard-copy version of this computer-assisted website
• Insightful and inspiring quotations on sight reading from famous guitarists of all styles.
• Simple open-position chords as a basis for the five logical guitar forms that conserve finger movement