The Little Guitar Book That Could: Nineteenth Position

This LITTLE GUITAR BOOK THAT COULD showcases the popular C A G E D guitar chord and scale sequence exclusively in the NINETEENTH POSITION for all to see, use and reference. But before thumbing through this book, there exists some subject matter that the guitarist may need to be reminded of...even though he or she may have played for years. For example, in this book, six is the exact number of consecutive frets involved in the NINETEENTH POSITION, and it spans a musical two octaves plus a perfect fourth when in standard tuning. Plus, when in this position, the second and third fingers on the fretting hand remain stationary in their respective frets or "slots", initially, as their stationary qualities allow the first and or fourth finger to stretch or slide to the notes found in the outer fret areas. For the picking hand, there exists an interesting pattern that involves the strings, that pattern occurring near the sound hole or bridge where that hand just so happens to reside a majority of the time. The plucking involved is evidenced when the C A G E D main root note sequence is plucked alphabetically, starting with the C root on the first or thinnest guitar string. To best understand this pattern, start by picking the C there on the first string, fretted with the second finger. Then move to the D (third string, first finger); then the E (third string, third finger); the G (second string, second finger); A (fourth string, first finger) and conclude with the low C (sixth string, second finger). The one-three-three-two-four-six string pattern naturally fits the picking hand well, plus the picking pattern is looped, forwards and backwards (six-four-two-five-three-one) as the C root notes found on the first /sixth string(s) are deemed interchangeable. Three additional terms used in this book are main root notes, octaves and unisons. What are main root notes? Generally speaking, main root notes represent a core set of root notes that fall or cluster under the second and third fingers of the fretting hand. However, in the NINETEENTH POSITION some of the C A G E D main root notes use the atypical first and fourth fingers, making those an exception of sorts. That issue aside, once the location of each main root note is memorized the attention then moves to their octaves, which are defined as the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its own frequency. Some call the interval a "perfect octave", and in guitarland, octaves are usually "one string one fret away". This handy fact helps memorize their location true enough, even though, occasionally, two strings and or two frets are involved (the same concept applies in that there will be some sort of string skipping). The last term used here is unison, this occurring when two or more music notes happen to sound the exact same pitch. In guitarland, it usually means "same note different string or fret". And very importantly, it's implied that the unison occurs in the guitar position at hand. That's it! This book then concludes with an A B C D E F G A alphabetical appendix, in which the C A G E D material is thus reorganized alphabetically to include the B and F material. And once delving in the appendix there, this book's straightforward "picture worth a thousand words" format allows one to take full musical advantage of the fretboard material right away. You'll have fun discovering some fresh perspectives on your own routine, while also adding new twists and turns to your technique. And this LITTLE GUITAR BOOK concludes with copious amounts of manuscript and fretboard paper too, making it an ideal guitar journal of sorts for jotting down those musical moments of inspiration. To close, I would like to say thank you very kindly for welcoming this LITTLE GUITAR BOOK into your library of fretboard knowledge needs...Enjoy!