The Guitar: The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists: Learn and Apply Music Theory for Guitar

Concise and to the point. Written in a way that makes reading about this topic fun. I have tried to understand this material from various sources over the years with little luck. This short book explains it in an easy to understand way. I was amazed at how simple this actually was. I finally understand!

Having already been aware of and if I'm honest, slightly intimidated by the circle of fifths as a concept, I'd never seen its magic specifically applied to the guitar before. Having it explained in the context of the guitar made it simpler to absorb and blew away much of the mystery. A book I that wish had been around years ago! Well worth the investment.

Compact, Precise, Methodical and applicable Music theory for Guitarists. Highly recommend it.

I am new to guitar playing and all I really wanted to know was how a capo worked. I mean what was really going on from the standpoint of music theory. Yes, I did poke around on the internet and found many videos, blobs and web pages. I still couldn’t really understand it. Admittedly, I am slow. But while trying to figure this all out I kept coming across this thing called the circle of fifths. Researching that I came across this book. I thought what the heck, why recreate the wheel – somebody else wrote a book trying to explain the concept. Now I have nothing to compare it to from the standpoint of formal music education, but what I do know is this, if you spend the time to really follow the very systematic explanations you will understand how the circle of fifths is created and more importantly how it is used. In the process of learning that you will also learn how major and minor scales are created and if you really pay attention you can figure out how guitar chords are created off the major scales. I also took the concept and walked it over to the minor scales as well. All in all are there better books on this subject? I don’t know. Do I feel like I have a good grasp of this topic? Yes I do. Do I understand how a capo works now? Yes. Did this book teach me that – not directly but because it equipped me with an understanding of the guitar fret board and what is going on it indirectly did. The bonus to studying through all of the examples I also learned what transposition is all about. So Mr. Alexander well done and thank you for putting this information out there for budding guitarists learn a powerful conceptual tool.

It’s a really helpful and easy to follow and understand. Great book for people who are into guitars.