(Guitar Educational). Lots of guitar players know several scales, but how many really know what to do with them? With Guitarist's Guide to Scales Over Chords , you'll learn how to apply the most commonly used scales in a musical manner. This book examines how scales and chords are closely linked and how this relationship is key to crafting memorable, intelligent solos. If you've been stuck in a pentatonic rut, or you feel that you're constantly relying on the same old patterns, this is the book for you! The book covers 14 scales in detail, and the audio features 99 tracks, including 15 backing track progressions for practice.
(Guitar Educational). This book for both acoustic and electric guitarists is designed to be a handy guide to the two most important components of playing: chords and scales. More than just a reference, it will also help you understand how chords and scales are created, named and used, and how they are related to each other. Includes over 1,400 chord diagrams; major, minor, pentatonic, blues and diminished scales; and modes. Teaches how to understand intervals and build major, minor, augmented, diminished and extended chords.
Harmony is bliss Tired of guessing which notes to play, just hoping it will sound good? That can all change when you discover the all too important relationship between chords and scales! Dive into Guitar Chords and Scales and watch your soloing and general playing level up in next to no time. Chords are king As a guitar player, some chord knowledge is essential, but with great chord knowledge, you'll be way ahead of the rest. If you don't understand what's going on 'underneath' your solo, you're frankly a bit lost at sea. Guitar Chords and Scales takes you through essential chord types and symbols and gets you reading chord charts (oh la la!) and reveals the easy ways to spice up any dull chord progression. Let's make progress Without chord progressions, there simply wouldn't be too many songs around, if any! Once you start getting geeky with chords and scales, you won't be able to stop exploring the whole new world of music at your fingertips. Stop with the guessing games... If you're overly nervous and wince before each note you play when soloing, it's probably because you don't know what you're doing....that's completely normal! Guitar Chords and Scales teaches you the how and the why, so you can start soloing with confidence and begin making your very own awesome solos. Scaling new heights! Maybe you've heard of the pentatonic scale already or perhaps it's all hullabaloo to you, either way, we'll take you through the essentials with a bunch of awesome licks thrown in for good measure. Knowledge is freedom! You may have heard that the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton learned simply by playing. That all you need is to 'feel it man' to be able to become a great guitar player. While this might be true for some, I promise you it isn't for most. Guitar Chords and Scales guides you through the musical knowledge you need and we promise it's not boring! Get into the mode! You can play pentatonics for the rest of your life and be happy, just ask Jimmy Page. Guitar Chords and Scales introduces you to the wonderful world of modes that can really add some new, exciting flavors to your playing...you'll see. How will this help my solos? With a good understanding of chord progressions, now you can really begin to show off. No need for random notes anymore when you know what you should play. Master the pentatonic scale and even better, Guitar Chords and Scales teaches you all about chord tones, a real secret weapon. We've got sweet 12 Bar Blues licks for you The 12 Bar Blues is an excellent place to hone your skills. Learn some classic blues licks with some added secret sauce to make things really interesting! You'll learn specific licks for each chord to sound like a pro. If you take even just a little from Guitar Chords and Scales, your musicianship will flourish. I promise this is really key stuff. So stop procrastinating and scroll back up to the top of the page and click "Buy Now".
3NPS (three-note-per-string) scales, as used by legions of guitarists but popularized mainly by Joe Satriani, are one of the most efficient ways to navigate the fretboard and get your scales down IF you follow the guidelines in this book. As the name suggests, a 3NPS scale is any scale that contains three notes on each string, and as you'll see in this eBook, this makes for a very consistent way to map out scales on the guitar fretboard. What we’ve done here is revamped the 3NPS scale system and turned it into an incredibly effective means to learn a wide variety of scales all over the fretboard by streamlining the number of patterns, as well as the picking system. This is not a scale theory book, and contains no pentatonic scales. This is a quick and dirty (and very effective) method for learning 3NPS scales all over the fretboard; something to work on in the woodshed. It will improve your picking technique and speed. It does not require a great amount of thinking as you only need to learn two picking patterns, which is really one in two directions, and only three scale patterns instead of the usual seven per scale.
This easy-to-follow method offers guitarists a hands-on contemporary approach to theory and harmony. It covers playing solos over chord progressions, riffs, blues-based music, extended chords, power chords, major scales and key signatures, triadic and seventh chord harmony, diatonic and non-diatonic progressions, and much more. The CD includes full band backing for reference and play-along.
Ever since my first guitar teacher introduced me to the music of Allan Holdsworth in the late 90s, it has been an ongoing apprenticeship. I became fascinated, not only with his music, but with his approach to music itself, and the way he thinks about chords, scales and improvisation. Allan’s REH video was a blessing for me as I was able to glean enough insight into his playing to understand the way the great man thinks, and more importantly to begin to apply those concepts to my own playing. I struggled with music theory and orthodox approaches, so when Allan’s beautifully simple way of thinking about chords and scales clicked for me, I knew I had found something that finally made sense. I must admit, I couldn’t play you a single Allan Holdsworth lick, and I wouldn’t want to as the thought of dissecting his music in that way was always unappealing to me. What I wanted to do was get inside his head, grasp his way of thinking about music, and find out exactly how he was able to come up with such intricate yet outrageous lines and compositions. And that is precisely what this book is about. Allan’s playing looks incredibly complicated, and then some, to the innocent bystander, but the approach behind it is incredibly simple and easy to grasp. It’s so straightforward in fact that most players who have attempted to describe what he does completely miss the point. Once you do understand his approach, however, you’ll have a new appreciation for how far he’s taken it, and how far it can go. This book is not for the faint-hearted, but you shouldn’t be put off by thinking that you’ll be getting to grips with a lot of tricky concepts, because you won’t; Allan’s way of thinking is almost childlike in its simplicity, and when you glimpse it I can assure you that you'll be intrigued.
A lot of students ask me how they can take their improvisation skills to the next level and move beyond pentatonic scales and into modes and arpeggios. My response is to tell them not to abandon pentatonic scales in favor of modes and other soloing devices, but to use them as a springboard and a solid foundation from which to expand their harmonic awareness. If you play rock, blues and even jazz, you’ll be using pentatonic scales for the rest of your life, so there’s no need to discard them! In this book, we’ll be using the much-loved minor pentatonic scale as the basis for learning and having a quick way to access the modes of the major scale, as well as the basic seventh chord arpeggios. This means that when you go to improvise, you'll have a vast array of options with which to go beyond pentatonic soloing. Work through this book daily and I guarantee you a smooth and painless transition from pentatonics to incorporating modes and arpeggios into your playing.
Organized into two sections: the first part of the book breaks down scale and chord theory in a step-by-step manner; the second part is a handy, comprehensive chord and scale finder that allows cross-referencing of scales with chords and vice versa.
