i never saw the need of it because once i learned the positions of the major scale, everything just made sense........and it always made sense that those chord shapes ore moveable anywhere on the neck...when i thumbed through the book, it was just stuff i already understood from playing........
That's how I felt about it, too, but over the years I've learned that everyone sees things or processes things a little differently so where shapes and patterns make sense to some, others use mathematical logic and straight theory and still others use a combination of both and then some.
To me, it was very exciting to find out that learning 1 barre chord, say F in the first position, automatically taught me 10 other chords...all I had to do was slide up one fret and then another fret and then another and so on...but I tell some of my students that, all excited about this "learn 1, get 10 free" deal and they stare back at me like a stone.
For them, I have to go through some of the theory as to why chords sound like they do and explain that the same theory applies as you move throughout the fretboard.
That usually does it but sometimes I still get the
look.
Patience, Lord...patience.
