Guitar Theory
And Technique
Learn The Fretboard - Guitar Scales, Chords And Arpeggios
Save years of learning so you can focus on playing music.
The Paul Hill Guitar Theory
And Technique Book
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Are You Serious About The Guitar And Want To Learn The Fretboard?
An accomplished guitarist needs to work on many areas of his or her playing. There are many great guitar books, guitar videos and apps out there to help improve your ears, sight reading, song repertoire, knowledge of licks, etc.
One extremely important skill (the most important?) that is so often overlooked is how to visualise the guitar fretboard.
The Paul Hill Guitar Theory and Technique book teaches you how to visualise the fretboard and gives you tons of ideas that you will understand and be able to apply and remember.
With excellent resources such as YouTube, it is now easy to learn songs, techniques and new sounds in any style. The tricky part is understanding how these musical ideas are formed on the guitar fretboard so that they can be easily memorised and used in other musical situations.
There is no escaping the fact that a guitarist needs a secure knowledge of scales, arpeggios and chords, and understands how to use them.
Guitarists usually struggle when it comes to learning scales, arpeggios and chords efficiently and they often find musical results challenging to achieve.
Stop wasting years learning scale, chord, and arpeggio shapes parrot-fashion, and start to truly learn the fretboard.
It is actually a very easy instrument on which to generate all the scales, chords, and arpeggios once you understand how it all works.
Check out the The Paul Hill
Guitar Theory And Technique Book
2025 Edition - today!
Learn The Fretboard
Starting My Journey...
When I was a young guitarist working hard on improving my guitar playing, I bought many great guitar books that helped in my development.
The books would often show scale, arpeggio or chord diagrams, tell me to learn them and then show me lots of great musical examples.
My collection of books and other guitar learning material soon started to grow, giving me access to a ridiculous amount of musical information.
The hard part was learning the fingerings, although the only method of learning them seemed to be repetition.
I spent a few years trying to come up with easier ways to help learn all the scale, arpeggio and chord shapes on the guitar fretboard and eventually came up with the concepts that became the first edition of my guitar theory and technique book.
The Evolution of Guitar Theory And Technique
The Guitar Theory And Technique Book
The original Paul Hill Guitar Theory and Technique Book was published in 2002 and received excellent reviews.
It has always been very satisfying when a new student who has purchased my book comes for private lessons and already has secure fretboard knowledge thanks to my book. The methods work!
Not long after the first edition of my book had become available, I wanted to refine The Paul Hill Guitar Theory and Technique Book and add new sections.
As I refined the techniques of generating patterns for scales, arpeggios and chords, this made the concepts even easier to understand and I created the second edition that became available on the iTunes store.
The Guitar Theory And Technique Subscription Site
At the beginning of 2016, the second edition of my book had been available on the iTunes store for a while and many people had been asking if the book would be available in other formats.
After a great deal of hard work, the result was my subscription site at guitartheoryandtechniquebook.com.
Anybody could now learn how to easily generate all scales, arpeggios and chords on the guitar fretboard, as the book became available with a subscription to the site. In addition to being able to read my book as it would appear in iBooks, there were also supporting videos to explain all the sections in detail, and many extra videos showing different techniques and ideas that were regularly being added.
A More Structured Way to Learn Guitar
Stepping into the next phase of my teaching, I realised that simply adding more content wasn’t the answer. Over time, my library of material had grown to the point where organisation and clarity mattered more than volume. I needed a way to present ideas as a connected system, rather than a collection of isolated lessons.
After extensive research and refinement, I rebuilt the teaching side of my work around a structured online platform designed specifically for guitarists who want clarity, not overload. This marked the final phase of The Paul Hill Guitar Theory & Technique approach — bringing together the ideas from the book and over 20 years of teaching experience into a clear, practical learning path.
The result is a growing collection of focused online guitar courses designed to help you understand the fretboard logically, make theory usable, and stop guessing your way around shapes. If you want to save years of frustration and learn the guitar in a structured, musical way, the online courses are the natural next step.
