Beyond Basics - The Intermediate Guitar Blueprint

You know your chords. Now understand them.

Beyond Basics is the step-by-step guide for guitarists who can already play a few chords and want to know what they're doing, and why it works. Written by Dan Cassoni, founder of DCM Music School in Co. Kildare, Ireland, it turns the theory behind great playing into clear, practical lessons you can pick up and play straight away.

Inside you'll learn to:

• Find any note on the fretboard and move any shape anywhere on the neck

• Understand keys, the Circle of Fifths and why chords belong together

• Play open, barre, power and seventh chords, and master the CAGED system

• Strum with confidence, fingerpick, use a capo and dial in your amp tone

• Play triads and arpeggios in 13 keys, Major and minor scales and all seven modes

• Solo with all five pentatonic shapes, the blues scale and ready-to-play licks

Every chapter ends with a "Practise this" box, each part ends with a checkpoint quiz, and a 12-week practice plan takes you through the whole book. It finishes with a complete original piece that puts everything together.

With 60+ examples in TAB and standard notation, full-colour diagrams and photos, and a troubleshooting guide to the problems every guitarist hits, Beyond Basics is the bridge from strumming chords to truly understanding your instrument.