Fretboard Theory – Learn Guitar Theory, Scales, Chords, Progressions, Modes, Song Details and More. Music Theory Lessons For Acoustic and Electric Guitar.
October 16th, 2009 | 
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(Plenty in stock! Ignore the “1 used & new.”) For intermediate to advanced guitar players. Download a FREE 25 page preview at http://Guitar-Music-Theory.com (copy and past this URL into your browser’s address bar). Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna covers music theory from a guitarist’s perspective including scales, chords, progressions, modes and more. Hands-on approach to theory gives you total command of the fretboard and music’s most critical elements by visualizin… More >>
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I found this book to fall wayyyy small of all that it promised. I own a very large collection of music theory books and I’m an intermediate to advanced guitar player. The promises made by the author and the reviews posted here compelled me to take the plunge and buy this one. Experience should have taught me the truth of the ancient adage that, “if it sounds too brilliant to be right, it probably isn’t”… but I succumbed to the clever marketing and my sense of trust.
I am completely mystified at the numbers of glowing reviews of this book. I suspect these reviewers must be friends or associates of the author. I found the topics were not given sufficient treatment required to be clear and the highly-vaunted song references were not helpful because the author did not say what part(s) of these songs illustrated the concepts he wished to highlight.
The book is not worth my time and effort to provide a more extensive critique. The only reason I am even taking the time to post this (my first ever Amazon review) is to help others avoid the mistake I made by purchasing Fretboard Theory.
I finished up returning the book for a refund. To his credit, I will state that Desi Serna was right to his ‘money back if dissatisfied’ promise. The refund took a small longer to arrive than I would have expected, but it did and Serna was courteous and professional throughout.
Instead of this book, I recommend books by Ted Greene, Fred Sokolow, Joe Pass and Arnie Berle (among others) for learning music theory and its application to guitar.
Rating: 2 / 5
I chose to learn to play the guitar 2 years ago.
I have bought hundreds of dollars worth of books and DVD lessons.
I have subscribed to several internet lesson sites also.
I practice at least an hour a day (nearly every day).
Recently, i bought this book and most of his DVD’s.
Nothing to date has done so well at conveying the technical details in a straight forward way while also demonstrating how the theory applies to well loved songs we all know (brilliant song examples – not dull stuff at all).
I reckon it just happened that i stumbled upon this at the perfect time (with respect to my skill level), i was able to go through it quickly / painlessly. I reckon this book is for intermediate level players. I would not recommend it for beginners. I reckon anyone buying this book should also buy the Pentatonic and Chord Progression DVD’s (they tied together perfectly).
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic learning tool for guitar the fastest one I have incountered in a long time to get to know the fret board of the guitar is so simple to do with this book by Desi Serna , wonderful study makes the fingers and the mind go so much quicker , thank you Desi Serna for this new outlook Deloy Robert Moore Singer, Song writer,Instrumentalist
Rating: 5 / 5
I despise to admit it as I got sucked into this buy as well. In small, if you are a beginning guitarist and want to learn primarily how pentatonic scales relate to well loved songs and the C-A-G-E-D methodology of visualizing the keyboard then this is for you…
there are better (and real) theory books out there.
Rating: 1 / 5
I played guitar on and off for years and never realy got anywhere. After a two months of fretboard theory I now know how chord progressions work, major, minor and penatonic scales and can play solos to nearly any tune. This time next year who knows whre I’ll be with my guitar playing.
Rating: 5 / 5