The Little Guitar Book That Could

This LITTLE GUITAR BOOK THAT COULD showcases the very popular C A G E D guitar chord and scale sequence, but exclusively in the EIGHTEENTH POSITION here, for all to see and use. Before thumbing through this book, there exists 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 EIGHTEENTH POSITION, and it spans a full musical two octaves plus a perfect fourth when in standard tuning. Plus when in the EIGHTEENTH 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 the notes found in that additional fret space. For the picking hand there is a very important pattern occurs that involves the strings, best picked near the sound hole or bridge where that hand just so happens to be a majority of the time...convenient. The picking 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. To best understand this pattern, start by picking the C there on the first string, fretted with the third finger, then D (third string, second finger); E (fifth string, second finger); G (second string, third finger); A (fourth string, second finger) and conclude with the C (sixth string, third finger). The one-three-five, two-four-six string pattern naturally fits the picking hand well it being every other sting, plus the every other string pattern is looped, forwards or backwards (six-four-two, five-three-one) as the C root notes found on the first /sixth string(s) are deemed interchangeable. Last on the list are three musical terms used in this book that need clarification, those being main root notes, octaves and unisons. What are main root notes? Generally speaking, main root notes represent a specific set of core root notes that fall or cluster under the second and third fingers of the fretting hand, and in the EIGHTEENTH POSITION, all C A G E D main root notes use the second and third fingers only. Once the location of each main root note is memorized 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 memorize their location 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). Next, and perhaps a bit unrelated, are unisons, which do often occur in guitar positionwork. Unisons are simply defined as when two or more music notes happen to sound the same p...