Berklee Press

collapse expand iconDescription

Become a more musical guitar player with the Berklee Press guitar theory book. Curated by Kim Perlak and developed by the Berklee Guitar Department Faculty, this book will help you learn and use chords scales and other building blocks of music from a guitarist's perspective. It applies concepts of music theory directly to your instrument using the time-honored teaching approaches of the Berklee Guitar Department. These applications facilitate creative expressive playing and writing in all styles and directly map to the Berklee Guitar Department proficiency evaluations. Players at all levels will find a clear and organized approach to the materials and musical examples in a variety of styles provided by Berklee's guitar faculty.

You'll learn to master the fingerboard by understanding how strings and frets relate to scales intervals and chords; understand and use the most important types of scales and modes; construct chords and voicing possibilities based on the essential building blocks of harmony; choose chord voicings that are ergonomic, intuitive and expressive for every unique playing situation; and more.
Berklee Press Guitar Theory - Kim Perlak, Curator - Developed by the Berklee Guitar Department Faculty