The Skeptical Guitarist, Vol. 2: The Fretboard - Guitar Method

While Volume One deals with general music theory that applies to ALL musical instruments, Volume Two is aimed primarily at guitarists: It shows how to apply the principles of music to the neck of the guitar specifically, and how to track down the C-A-G-E-D scale and chord forms.  As the Circle of Fifths was the star of the first book, so the C-A-G-E-D system dominates the second book. It will help you organize scales and chords into all these handy inter-connected box patterns up and down the neck.

Topics include chord voicings and inversions, movable chord and scale shapes and box patterns, complex chord qualities, quadrads and their extensions, walking chord progressions, how to put chords to a melody, and harmonizing by thirds, sixths and tenths.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Reviewing the C Major scale
  Chord voicings, starting with C
  Inversions
  Adding the 6th string
  Skipping strings
  Chord tone personalities
  Other C-A-G-E-D chord form voicings
  Worksheet for other voicings
  Back to the G chord form voicings
  Comparing the C and G voicings
  My own E, A and D voicings
  E chord form voicings
  The movable E chord form
  A chord form voicings
  The movable A chord form
  Using the E- and A-shapes together
  D chord form voicings
  Drop D tuning
  Summarizing the E-, A- and D-shapes
  Chord shapes...our story so far
  Complex chord qualities
  C complex chord qualities
  Adding the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th degrees
  Worksheets for G, E, A and D complex chords
  Weird little exercise
  Chords with the same quality compared
  1-4-5 complex chord progressions
  The five basic chord shapes
  C chord in C, A, G, E and D shapes
  The entire tamale
  Partial chord shapes
  The other C-A-G-E-D chords
  6th-string versus 5th-string roots

  Bring out your capo!
  Capo placement chart
  Scale shapes / box patterns
  C scale in C, A, G, E and D shapes
  C Major scale all over the neck
  Traveling from pocket to pocket
  Major scales other than C (finally)
  Keys of D, Eb, E, F, G, A and Bb
  Chord qualities other than Major
  Minor chords
  Dominant 7th chords
  Movable barre chords
  Minor 7th chords
  Minor 6th chords
  Minor sus2 and sus4 chords
  Walking chord progressions
  Quadrads of the Harmonized Diatonic scale
  Exercises and explanations
  Worksheet: "Rhythm Changes"
  Movable 2-5-1 progressions
  Summary of Chord Family quadrads
  Oddball Quadrads
  Diminished 7th chords
  Augmented and Augmented 7th chords
  Minor-Major 7th chord
  Chromatic walkdown progressions
  Quadrad Extensions: 9th, 11th and 13th
  C, G, E, A and D quadrad extensions
  Sample chord progressions
  How to put chords to a melody
  "Frere Jacques"
  Harmonizing by Thirds, Sixths and Tenths
  Combining them in "Frere Jacques"