Idiot's Guides: Guitar Theory

by David Hodge

Idiot's Guides: Guitar Theory is music theory for guitar and other fretboard instruments. Beginning with very simple and clear explanations, the book defines notes, their names, relationships, and guitar tablature and then explains rhythm, keeping time, and strumming. The book then goes into depth on the major scale and the four basic chords, to make guitar theory very clear and keep it easy, before going into all the chords and scales. The last part of the book covers playing solo and with others. There is more than an hour of listen- and follow-along audio files online with all of the music in the book and more.

Genres: Music

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2014

Reviews

[Michael G · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not Quite

I can't pinpoint it, but this book didn't grab me like I thought it would. Felt like I got more out of the Idiot's Guide to Music Theory. I was rushing to get through it because of boredom.

[Michael Bradt · Rating 2 out of 5]

They needed to idiot it up slightly more. There are a fair number of assumptions made about basic knowledge. I feel like I needed some external background to follow some of what was said.

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good reinforcing of some things I already knew. I am not sure it’s a good book for someone who knows nothing about theory, but it’s not the worst way to begin to learn it either.