The Little Guitar Book That Could

This LITTLE GUITAR BOOK THAT COULD showcases the popular C A G E D guitar chord and scale sequence exclusively in the FIFTH POSITION, for all to see and use. But, before thumbing through this book, there's some important subject matter that the guitarist may need to be reminded 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 FIFTH POSITION, and it spans a full two octaves plus a perfect fourth when in standard tuning. Plus, when in the FIFTH 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 that additional fret space. For the picking hand though, a very important pattern occurs down by the sound hole or bridge (where that hand just so happens to be.) The pattern involves every other string and is best evidenced when the C A G E D main root note sequence is plucked alphabetically, starting with the C root on the first or thinnest guitar string. Start by picking the C there (first string, fourth finger); then D (third string, third finger); E (fifth string, third finger); G (second string, fourth finger); A (fourth string, third finger) and conclude with the C (sixth string, fourth finger). The one-three-five, two-four-six string pattern naturally fits the picking hand and is looped, forwards or backwards (six-four-two, five-three-one) as the C root notes located on the first/third/sixth string(s) are deemed interchangeable. To that end, there are also three musical terms that need clarification for the purposes of THE LITTLE GUITAR BOOK THAT COULD...those being main root notes, octaves and unisons. What are main root notes? Generally speaking, main root notes represent a specific set of root notes that fall or cluster under the second and third fingers of the fretting hand. Most of the time, the second and third fingers fret them, but there are two instances in the FIFTH POSITION when the main root notes involve the first and fourth fingers. Please be aware of this. Once the location of each main root note is learned in the FIFTH POSITION, the attention then moves to their octaves. An octave is defined as the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its own frequency. Some correctly call the interval a "perfect octave", and in guitarland, octaves are usually "one string one fret away". This handy fact helps to memorize their location sure enough, even though, occasionally, two strings and or two frets are involved (the same concept applies in that there will be some sort of string skipping). And last are unisons, a term used to define when two or more music notes happen to sound the same identical pitch. In guitarland, unisons imply "same note different string or fret". The term also implies that the unison occurs in the given guitar positi...