Description

Everything in the series has been building to this.

Volume IV concludes The Awesome Guitar Series with the most advanced and comprehensive material in the collection — large major and minor chord and scale shapes expanded across all six strings, reconnecting everything you’ve learned into a complete, unified picture of the fretboard. If the earlier volumes gave you the framework, this volume gives you the full command of it.

The volume picks up where Volume III left off, completing the Root thru 7th and Root thru b7th chord and scale studies across every remaining key — Gb, Eb, E, C#, Db, Bb and beyond — and continues the octave shape and neck repetition melody studies that have threaded through the entire series. I-IV-V major and i-iv-v minor chord progressions are carried forward and deepened with new exercises and keys.

Section 2 introduces large chord and scale shapes — six-string major and minor forms that tie the 3-string sets together into full-neck shapes. Neck grids compare majors and minors side by side, simplifying patterns that once seemed impossibly complex. Studies in C Major, A Minor, D Major, B Minor and more bring these shapes into practical, musical context.

The volume closes with diminished and augmented chord structures and shapes — the harmonic territory most methods never reach — before Phil’s parting thoughts on what comes next for you as a player.

Complete the series and the guitar is no longer a mystery. The D-C-A-G-F-E system — Daily Chording Activity Guarantees Future Expertise — is fully yours.

Now sold in 12 countries. Includes tablature and standard notation throughout.