Why study Music Theory?

All too often guitarists pick up their craft haphazardly - learning a chord here, a scale there, perhaps a riff or two. Learning that way may eventually get you where you want to be as a musician, but there is a better way.

Traditionally trained musicians study music in addition to learning musicianship on their instruments. Most pianists, violinists or horn players sight read fluently, and have studied theory, harmony, counterpoint, music history, and other 'theoretical' subjects.

They don't do it simply as an intellectual exercise -- studying the fundamentals of theory gives them a framework to think differently about what they're playing.

Music theory has traditionally been taught at a piano keyboard. That's probably what keeps most guitarists from learning theory... you need to learn a new instrument (at least the basics), and then you need to work to adapt that new knowledge to the instrument you prefer - the guitar.

Not anymore!

NoteBoat is proud to present the first book of traditional music theory written specifically for the guitarist. Now you can learn the essential elements of music without access to a keyboard, and without struggling to adapt these ideas to the guitar. With this one book you'll learn to analyze rhythms, construct standard and exotic scales in all keys, build complex chord structures, and transpose music to other keys. Key relationships, chord inversions and progressions, interval structure, even a dictionary of standard musical terms -- it's all at your fingertips.

Hundreds of illustrations make this book perfect for teaching yourself what thousands of classically trained musicians know... and what thousands of guitarists don't! Whether you play electric, acoustic, or classical, and whatever style of music you prefer, the tools presented here will make you a better musician.

For $21.95 - less than the price of a couple of guitar lessons you'll have months worth of material to improve the way you think about music. And for a limited time, we'll cover the shipping cost (US addresses only)!

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