Fretboard Memorization Deck Guitar Flash Cards, Learn Key Signatures, Chord Formulas, Open & Bar Shapes, for Beginners, Intermediate Players & Homeschool Learners, 54-Card Pack

I'm including the top two paragraphs of this review to give you my guitar history, so you can see how you think you might match up, experience wise.Just to set the stage, I’m 66 y/o now for less than a month, and I just recently retired as a university professor. I’ve been playing the guitar since I was 16. I’m a good autodidact, but I've taken formal lessons at the university back in the mid-2000s because I got a break on the price. I’ve had many of the topics presented in these cards back then, but I mostly wanted to be better at playing barre chords, and playing up and down the neck. Not to become the next Stevie Ray Vaughn. To please my instructor I learned the C-Ionian and Aeolian Scales, in one position, and mode 1 of the minor pentatonic. To change things up though, I learned the A-Minor version of the Pentatonic Scale this time. (A music theory joke. Buy the cards to get it.) Otherwise, all that music theory went in one ear and out the other.Now, because of a recent tragedy, I’ve all of a sudden wanted to learn how to play lead. I saw an interview with Jerry Garcia recently, and he was asked if he knew much music theory. He said something to the effect of, "Oh sure. I didn’t at first, but I found that I had to know it to effectively talk to other musicians." With that said...As far as quality goes, these cards are just like a deck of Bicycle cards, except that your cards shouldn’t be used quite as hard as a deck of playing cards. They seem to have the same kind of plastic coating as most better brands of playing cards. My box is taking a beating, but that just shows that I'm using them. I see a rubber band in these cards future.I like the way they’re color coded. If you want to pull out the different patterns of the minor pentatonic, the color coding really helps in that regard. There are 6 different categories featuring: Note, String & Fret Memorization, Symbol Memorization, Interval Memorization, Essential Chord Shapes, Basic Theory, and Scale Memorization.I’m going through the deck methodically, which, once again, the color coding makes it very easy to do. I didn’t need to go through some of the categories because I'm classically trained in most brass instruments since I was in 5th grade, and I don’t need a refresher on how many beats are in an eighth note triplet, but if you do, then these cards are for you.Finally, these cards are very handy. For me, they're perfect as a learning aid. they should dovetail with any serious guitar instruction. Pull them out when you’ve got some free time. They fit in a guitar case, or a purse, or pocket. If you’re taking lessons, and your teacher wants you to learn music theory, and you want to become good, then these cards can really help you achieve that goal.All that said, just like the people who use their expensive treadmills as a place to throw their cloths after work, you’re going to need to have some sort of plan as to how to use these cards, because it’s a long way to the top if you want to Rock -n- Roll.The cards aren't magic, so you’ve got to put your scale time in. I'd suggest buying a metronome to build up your speed, and get a guitar teacher who will teach you the type of music you want to play. I’ve seen guys who wanted to learn Rock guitar, and the instructor's specialty was classical guitar. Can he teach you guitar? Sure, but he may not be familiar with all the licks you might want to learn.My only slight complaint would be that PDF files were advertised by going to his website, but you had to give them personal information in return for access. I didn’t sign on, so I couldn’t tell you anything about the lessons. I’m just funny about the information I put out there.Since this is getting long-ish, I'll finish this here. They’re good for what they’re good for, and relatively inexpensive, handy, and a great learning aid. Once again, as a supplemental learning tool they’re great.Later taters.c f van owen, md, phd (ret.)

The cards are the size of a small deck of playing cards and have small print, but they are very well-organized and geared to help us memorize important theory elements and the fretboard itself. I'm enjoying using them and am learning a lot from them!

Excellent

I am very glad I found the Fretboard Memorization Deck on Amazon. They really are beautiful and already I have learned more than what I knew before I bought them.Getting back into music I wanted to re-learn what I had forgotten. These cards are truly amazing, well detailed, easy to use and best of all, they fit in your pocket. I take my books to read while on break and lunch, but these are easier to carry with me.It was worth it for me. Although I understand the "random" study of memorization card games, I do wish that they where numbered. I like things in order, I don't mind shuffling them and studying things randomly, but at the end of the day I would like to put everything back in order from 1 to 52.But again, so worth it. Not to mention that the creature of the deck was very responsive to my questions and reached back out to me very quickly. That in it self was worth it too.If your looking to study or find a gift for your child or musician friend who plays guitar, then this is a good place to start.Thank you so much and I can't wait to have these memorized.

These cards are too small, which makes them hard to read. The box they came in was low quality and damaged.I ended up buying the Amplify Fretboard Mastery cards. They're bigger, easier to read, and come in a luxury package that doubles as decoration in my living room.

The cards arrived sooner than scheduled. They are the size and feel of normal playing cards which is nice so they look like they will withstand a lot of use. But a strong warning: these are not for solo beginners. A teacher or musical friend will likely be needed to help a total beginner to understand some sections of these cards. The seller states this in print and in the video that is provided on his Amazon page. These cards are packed with info and can help with far more than just memorizing the guitar neck. Included are intervals, scales/modes, symbols, chord shapes and basic theory. And included is access to an instruction PDF that is a nice touch. I look forward to giving them lots of use.

These cards are great. I normally have to refer to books to look a lot of this info up- scales etc and now I literally have all the info right in the palm of my hands. Plus because a deck of cards is so portable that you can have them in your pocketbook or even pocket to study when standing on a line at the store or wherever.The quality is very nice. I didn’t notice the dots at top of each card, so when color was referenced I’m looking at back and red design, and thought where’s the orange cards and other colors? But then noticed there are very tiny pin size dots at the top center of each card as to make it easy to have each card in its designated group. Once you know it’s there it’s easy to see, but incase you overlook, my reason for pointing it out. Design is very nice of cards and great info.I highly recommend ! Great product!

There is useful information on these cards and I couldn't find anything similar. I ordered because I wanted flashcards. If these cards were larger (3x5 or 4x6), they would be PERFECT. As others said, the colored dots for grouping cards is somewhat hard to distinguish on the black background.