Reddit reviews Deluxe Guitar Position Studies

Unfortunately nobody responded to this... it's a question very near and dear to my heart as well as it's something I'm still struggling with.

I can highly suggest that you play your simple C-major scale notes starting on the 5th fret over and over and over (the same way you did in 1st position when you were first learning). Don't necessarily look at sheet music while doing this, but do it "a bunch".

I can also highly recommend that you "find" all the "C" notes on the guitar and be able to locate them quickly. Start with 2nd string first fret and just find all of them and be able to bounce / play between them.

I've also tried doing the Delcamp Book 1 (happy birthday / frere jacques, etc) in 5th-ish position and that worked OK but it's still a slog (as you know).

I was also recommended (but haven't yet really worked through) this book - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0871666103/ ... Mel Bay's deluxe guitar position studies. I like the idea of it because it "traps" you in a certain position which forces you to learn it, as opposed to regular pieces which might be 90% 1st position and 10% what you need to learn.

Finally, I wish I knew (and I might just do it myself) ... what the 90% case for chord names and shapes are in each position. ie: in 1st position, I recognize F-shapes and arpeggios, C-shapes / arpeggios, G-shapes / arpeggios, etc.

I need to know / practice / recognize "oh, that's a C" but in 3rd / 5th / 7th / whatever position. I know there exists "CAGED" which talks about the shapes of your fingers, but doesn't necessarily tell you what the names of the chords are, or what is "90% of the time when you're playing a chord on the 3rd fret it's gonna be either XX-major or YY-minor" or whatever that math works out to be.

I'd love for other people to chime in if possible.

--Robert

What's the point?

• Positional playing. Mel Bay's Deluxe Guitar Position Studies may help, but he mostly says stuff like 2nd position is best for the keys of A, D, G etc. http://astore.amazon.com/themachiguita-20/detail/0871666103 You can play every key within 3 or 4 frets (an octave.) It also makes it easy to find what key a song is in.
  
  
• Modes. Satriani's Pitch Axis Theory is a good example. http://youtu.be/5mbrAlE9pC4
  
  Each string change also changes keys?
  
  
• It really does if you change patterns accordingly.