Quartonic Harmony for Guitar 2nd Edition

Quartonic Harmony for Guitar presents a geometrically intuitive approach to thinking harmonically on guitar. Quartonic Harmony treats harmony always with respect to a chord tone basis. Doing so simplifies harmonic understanding by allowing players to ignore key centre and the role that conventional cadence demands in a classic tonal orientation. Following this logic opens a profoundly new way of approaching melody, composition, and improvisation, and allows for new insights previously unavailable in older ways of looking at harmony. The method is primarily diagrammatic; however, comprehensive explanations are given that provide a fully exhaustive treatment of the ideas presented. The reader is led chapter-by-chapter toward a sense of true harmonic freedom—a freedom which is normally elusive. No deep prior musical knowledge is required—only preliminary familiarity with the fretboard and an interest in learning these ideas.
Approach

• Diagrammatic orientation geared toward intuitive understanding
• Abstract geometric interpretation of harmonic structure
• Simplified approach to melodic construction, improvisational and compositional
• Applicable to preliminary and advanced guitarists
• Focused on self-motivated harmonic exploration rather than rote-lick-memorisation
• A philosophical and reflective attitude
• Chapter exercises geared toward musical mindfulness

From the introduction…