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Ace the Fretboard: Guitar Chord Progressions
Paperback
Music Instruction: GuitarGuitar SongbooksSongwriting
Publisher Price: $69.95
Publisher: Brian McGinty
Published: Mar 1 2026
Pages: 442
Weight: 3.02
Height: 1.20 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
ACE the FRETBOARD teaches how to create guitar chord progressions by connecting basic triads. It uses patterns that repeat and are easy to play and remember. It includes the most popular chord progressions and is written for guitarists that don't know any music theory.
ACE the FRETBOARD teaches guitarists how to:
-Easily create chord progressions all over the fretboard, with all inversions, in any key.
-Play through the Circle of Fifths and use it to create chord progressions.
-Play through the Harmonized Major scale and use those chords to create progressions.
-Add borrowed chords to progressions.
-Create chord progressions on the fly just by finding the Root note and playing a triad pattern that was easy to memorize.
ACE the FRETBOARD is a comprehensive course on using triads to create chord progressions. This book will form a foundation that guitarists can use and build upon.
All of the chord progressions and their inversions are shown with chord diagrams. There are hundreds of examples. A guitarist can play through the progressions even if they don't read the lesson. The progressions are easy to play for a beginner guitarist and the book is filled with ideas that will also benefit intermediate players.
This is a book guitarists can pull off the shelf when they want inspiration for songwriting ideas. ACE the FRETBOARD will be a lifelong resource for most guitarists.
The lessons are kept simple and easy to understand. Guitarists of all levels will be able to work their way through the entire book. It is rare to find an instruction book that guitarists will actually finish. Many instruction books start out fun but then get too complicated. ACE the FRETBOARD is different. This book explains confusing material in a simple way that is refreshing.
ACE the FRETBOARD takes complicated music theory and makes it super easy and fun to play.
About the author: Brian McGinty has been playing guitar since 1980. He grew up and lives in the Tacoma, Washington area, with his wife Tammy.
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