It helped me, It will help you too!

If you want the proper tools to reach your guitar goals, with a keep it simple approach, I wholeheartedly recommend Fretboard Logic to have inside your guitarist tool chest.
You won't be sorry.

  I have followed the usual path many guitar players have gone down. However, like most, I came to a dead end. I would get bored, frustrated, and confused with the rote style of trying to learn this wonderful instrument.
I would let my acoustic guitar sit in its case for months, and sometimes years. On occasion I would take it out now and then only to play for a few months only to repeat the madness of this continuing cycle.

I started with all the usual method books with which I am sure you are all familiar, took lessons for a few years with such books only to be playing Red River Valley, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, etc. In my case these were not exactly the kind of songs I was looking to play to amaze my friends. Yes, they taught me some music theory and I learned to read music, but it was all based around the piano without specifically applying it to the distinctive patterns of the guitar's fretboard layout.

I managed to figure out a few licks note by note, the hard way with guess work, or the usual put your first finger here, second finger there mentality, but I still could not figure how to improvise and know where I could go to next without being limited inside some so-called box. As your typical acoustic player my range was limited to the open position and was lucky if I could do anything past the fifth fret. How many of you fellow acoustic players know exactly what I mean?

I looked into the so-called "Rock Methods" out there along with the so-called learn these hot licks books. The books were solely based on one scale form in one box and maybe a blues box. Geesh, for crying out loud I wanted out of the box. I wanted to be able to play starting in the open position, from the 1st fret to beyond the 12th, and most importantly understand the logic and reasoning behind knowing how to do just that. I spent a lot of my hard earned cash on methods and chord catalogs that are now collecting dust in my closet. I even had many chord books given to me by friends who were overwhelmed by trying learn from chord books thicker than the phone book.
Since I came across Fretboard Logic I can honestly say I now have a solid foundation with my guitar.

I can play the length of the entire fretboard, I can improvise, build chords without referring to that book with hundreds of pictures, and I am able to start learning some of the riffs and songs that before were really out of my reach. I would highly recommend getting the videos to compliment the book for they are the icing on the cake. It is like having Mr. Edwards teaching you at home at your own pace and gives reinforcement. His website also has listings of teachers who use Fretboard Logic exclusively with their students if you are interested in finding one in your area.

You are not limited to any one music style or guitar type in this series. I am sorry, but those who say you need to teach reading music or deep theory first are not thinking outside of the box. You do not have to be a great note reader to play guitar or music in general. Look at Jose Feliciano, or Ray Charles or even the Beatles, for example. It is up the student to decide how far into theory he or she wishes to explore. This is surely the best guitar book I have ever owned. Fretboard Logic was the key that made the door of understanding the guitar open wide for me. It is now up to me, and hopefully you, when you make the right decision to use this book, where you want to go from there.

It is true, no one book or teacher can make you a great guitarist. It takes self-motivation, plenty of practice, and most importantly, a strong desire in your heart. I urge you, especially the beginner guitarist and advanced, do not, let me repeat that, DO NOT, let the small minority scare you off from this book. The road to success is always under construction. If you want the proper tools to reach your guitar goals, with a keep it simple approach, I wholeheartedly recommend Fretboard Logic to have inside your guitarist tool chest. You won't be sorry.

Reviewer: Charles Ward (Florida)