Author Description

This LITTLE GUITAR BOOK THAT COULD showcases the ever prevalent C A G E D guitar chord and scale sequence exclusively in the TWELFTH POSITION, for all to see, use and reference. The book incorporates four different chord types, the augmented, major, minor and diminished, along with four different scale types, the descending melodic minor, harmonic minor, melodic ascending minor and major. The pentatonic minor scale is placed below the usual descending melodic minor example in this book, and all modes are considered to be derived from the major scale. But, before thumbing through this book, there's some musical practicalities that the guitarist may need reminding 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 TWELFTH POSITION, and it spans a full two octaves plus a perfect fourth so long as the guitar remains in standard tuning. Plus when in the TWELFTH POSITION, the second and third fingers on the fretting hand are to 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 their notes found in the outer frets. For the picking hand though, a very important plucking pattern occurs down by the sound hole or bridge where that hand happens to reside most of the time. The pattern is best evidenced when the C A G E D main root note sequence is plucked alphabetically, starting with the G root on the first or thinnest guitar string. To play it, start by picking the G there found on the thinnest string (first string, fourth finger); then move to A (third string, third finger); then C (second string, second finger); D (second string, fourth finger); E (fourth string, third finger) and conclude with the low G on the thickest string (sixth string, fourth finger). The one-three-two-two-four-six string pattern naturally fits the picking hand and is looped, forwards or backwards (six-four-