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

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Master the Circle of Fifths and Crack the Secret Code of Music TheoryDiscover how to form any scale - in any keyUnderstand key signaturesChange key musically and effectivelyUnderstand how to apply and hear music theory on the guitarInstantly know the notes of any major of minor scale The Circle of Fifths for GuitaristsAre you aware of key signatures, keys and scales but don’t quite know how they fit together?Would you like to have complete freedom to build and use the right scales on guitar?Do you want to know exactly which notes to play in any major or minor scale?Do you know how to change key smoothly and easily?The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists will teach you to build, understand and use the essential building-blocks of music theory to become a better musician, quickly and easily. Here’s what you get:A complete course, building from the first principles of music that allows you to create, understand and master the Circle of Fifths.Discover how to build every major and relative minor scales.Understand how key signatures work and instantly know the notes of any scaleAn instant trick to tell you the notes in any key, just using by looking at your guitar fretboard!Bonus: Learn to instantly see the relationships six ‘secret’ closely related key changes that you can use in your own writing and playing instantly.Are you Missing part of the puzzle?Most guitarists know a lot of scales, but few actually understand the essential principles of how they are built and how they relate to each other.The Circle of Fifths is like an ancient ‘Rosetta Stone’ of music theory that not only tells you which notes are in any key, but also contains the secret of how every scale is built and how every scale relates to each other.In The Circle of Fifths, you will not only learn how The Circle works, but you will also learn to build it yourself and gain instant access to the deep inner core of theory that governs everything in music.The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists shows how every key, scale, chord and modulation works in music. It’s essential knowledge of any aspiring musician.Hear it!Theory is just knowledge, but once you hear it, it becomes music. The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists contains many supporting audio examples to help you get inside the theory and quickly apply the concepts to your own playing. Get it for free from book is Free on Kindle Unlimited Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Illustrated edition (October 18, 2016)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 66 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1911267302


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 00


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.15 x 11 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #211,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #251 in Music Theory (Books) #418 in Guitars (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews


  • Finally understanding the circle of 5ths!
Really great book, and helpful audio tracks to accompany the reading. Very helpful in learning basic music theory for guitar.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2023 by Jason

  • Easy to Understand
The author works hard to make music theory simple and easy to understand. I appreciate this author's approach. I've wanted my guitar knowledge to expand and improve my playing. Alexander's books are helpful.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2023 by Julie McConnell

  • Easy to understand
Hi. I like my book, " The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2023 by Steve Reynolds SR

  • Helps with song writing
I’ve been wanting to expand my horizon on making my own songs, I’ve had a bit of trouble with trying to piece things together. This book definitely helped me understand more about chord progressions.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2023 by Chris Gonzales

  • Understanding progressions
Honestly this book is a bit over my head at this point and will take more than one read through. I’ll take it to my next class and I’m sure my instructor can point me in the right direction. It’s important for me to understand why I’m doing something not just do it become it’s written on the page. I’m looking forward to gaining that understanding. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2022 by JG

  • Easy Read!
Great book , dives deep enough to give you a good understanding but not too deep to confuse you. Has essential information and leaves out a lot of unnecessary info which is one of my favorite qualities in a guitar book. Keeps the book short and concise and easy to reference when needed.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2022 by Casey

  • Just as the title says
This book teaches exactly what title claims - understanding the circle of fifths and applying it to the guitar. It was a really quick an easy book that provides just enough music theory information to allow you to know everything that goes into generating and applying the circle of fifths. The marrying of the circle of fifths to the guitar, which is of course the basis of this book was clunky at times. It mostly consisted of introducing various fretboard patterns as memory aids to various aspects of circle of fifths. These tricks are kinda moot since the circle of fifths essentially is a cheat sheet so that you don't need to think a whole lot about relative minor scales and how many sharps are in B major. It was at least interesting to see how standard guitar tuning is optimized for easily playing in fifths - arguably the most important interval in Western music. There are also several typos throughout the book, but not enough to be too distracting. But after reading this, I was able to recreate the circle of fifths in my first go (not purely from memory, but intuitively applying the music theory and logic), so I can say I'm satisfied. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2021 by Keith Cote

  • This book really is worth the effort.
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. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2018 by dk

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