Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is my first review on Amazon. I am writing this review because of how appalling Erik Buljan's book is. I came across this book while looking for resources for my students. I have a degree in music performance for guitar and I own a music school. This book is very simplistic and obvious. Firstly, Erik gives you a graphic of the fretboard with the letters on the frets. He then tells you to memorize one string at a time. This is a good idea but he gives little advice on how to do this. His advice simply is "Say each note out loud as you play them" and "play the notes in a completely random order for at least 5 minutes." He could of added 20 more exercises and patterns to help you remember, keep things interesting, and build technique at the same time. Secondly, Erik tells you to do the same thing but this time, vertically. This means go down all the strings and stay on 1 or two frets where appropriate. Again, this is a good idea but the problem remains the same as I have described. Also, he misses out notes and comes back to them later. This is a bizarre thing to do. And that is the whole book. He has a few other exercises but they are of little value. If you did a Google image search of the guitar fretboard, and then made your own simple exercises on memorizing the fretboard, you would by far learn more this way then you would through Erik's Buljan's book. The Ultimate Guide to Memorizing the Guitar Fretboard is an ultimate waste of time.