Get more variety into your playing with this concise, easy-to-use book from one of today's best-regarded instructional authors. For intermediate to advanced players who already know and use major and minor scales and modes, this book includes complete notation and tablature for all examples, shortcuts to getting the scales under your fingers, interval studies and melodic patterns, analysis of non-diatonic harmony, modal applications, and licks for each scale, including 3 complete solos. Exact fingerings are supplied for challenging passages, some of which are excerpts from the author's solo cds and client sessions. Includes download code for all 74 audio examples.
WHAT'S INSIDE GUITAR SCALES YOU CAN USE? Created by GMI - Guitar & Music Institute lead tutor Ged Brockie, Guitar Scales You Can Use is a 152 full colour book which distils his thirty five year guitar playing experience which has covered almost every conceivable musical scenario. INDEPTH LEARNING - GUITAR SCALES YOU CAN USE IS MORE THAN JUST A BOOK OF SCALE PATTERNS FOR GUITARISTS. Learn the scale patterns that are both powerful and meaningful and will really make the difference to your playing, improvisations and performances. A thought through method of learning including a template system of progressive scale tuition that acts as a force multiplier for your overall understanding of how the guitar and scales are created and used. This is a full colour publication including large easy to read scale forms, fretboard diagrams and descriptive images. Covers the widest range of scales that guitarists need to know including: major, natural/harmonic and melodic minor scales over the entire neck in seven positions. Pentatonic, Blues, Diminished, and whole tone scales are also included. Learn how you can play major and minor pentatonic patterns in 10 different keys in just one position. This book also includes how to play fourteen different keys in one position using modal scales giving you complete musical control over key changes! Included are fret maps detail a simple to understand root based system in two key positions giving you complete understanding over the entire guitar fretboard. Theoretical explanations of pentatonic, major, melodic and harmonic minor, blues, chromatic, whole tone and diminished scales. A large suite of “exotic” scales are also included for those that are looking to learn patterns that are on the fringe. Original music examples and pieces provided in music and TAB throughout Guitar Scales You Can Use! enabling you to learn the patterns whilst you actually play music and not just patterns. Included open string patterns cover major, minor, pentatonic and blues scales. If you think you know what the cycle of fifths is about, then think again! Guitar Scales You Can Use! shows how you can use this often overlooked music tool to the best effect. HOW THE INFORMATION IS DELIVERED Divided into three chapters – Open Scale Patterns – Fretted Scale Patterns – Symmetrical Scale Patterns, each section within these chapters includes blank chord boxes and staff/TAB sheets for your own workings and examples. Traversing the entire neck in one key, playing round the cycle of fifths in one position, major, harmonic and minor scale comparison sheets are included to give you the best chance of getting your scalar knowledge together once and for all! Modes are also covered and demystified showing you how to both create and apply these often misunderstood patterns. All three chapters are backed up by our Youtube videos viewable via QR codes so you can view the scales being demonstrated by GMI’s Ged Brockie.
Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret" soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/audio packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature."
Scott Collins' GuitArchitecture method replaces the standard approach to learning guitar, rote memorization, with a simple, intuitive two-string approach that anyone can learn. This method, where players can actually see scales on a fingerboard, is called sonic visualization, and it can be applied to any scale or modal system.In this book of the GuitArchitecture series, "The GuitArchitect's Guide to Modes: Harmonic Combinatorics", Scott explains how to construct and analyze chords and how to create thousands of variations and progressions from a single chord using his unique visualization method."Harmonic Combinatorics" is a vast harmonic and melodic resource for guitarists. With this approach, you can create an almost infinite number of unique melodic phrases and harmonic devices to compose or improvise your own music.
(Pocket Guide). Everything you ever wanted to know about guitar scales, but were afraid to ask! This book fills you in on major and minor scales; the modes; the blues scale; harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole tone & diminished scales; other exotic and ethnic scales; and more. Includes easy-to-read fretboard diagrams.
This book illustrates, in each of five different positions, all the modes of the major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, pentatonic, blues, diminished and whole tone scales. Don also shows the primary uses for each scale, with an example of each.
Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass is a quick reference guide aimed at music students of all levels, tackling the scales commonly used in improvising and bass line construction. This book further develops topics dealt with in the preceding Essential Scales for Electric Bass, concentrating on new and advanced scales that will provide the bassist with a wider variety of sounds and colors to add more personality to his playing. Each scale in the book is preceded by an introductory chart summarizing the theory and practical application. The development in all the keys follows in standard notation and tablature, together with fingering for 4- and 5-string basses. Topics include: melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished, whole-tone, and blues scales.
The Woodshedder’s Guide to Guitar Scales came about after a request from a student. Obsessed with scales, she wanted a practice regime that allowed to her to learn a considerable number of guitar scales all over the fretboard using the most efficient and least time-consuming method I could come up with. To accomplish this, I suggested using just three patterns per scale, all of which are derived from three master patterns. In essence, we bypassed traditional (and outdated) scale systems that have you learning anything from five to seven or more patterns per scale (as this is both time-consuming and unnecessary) and grouped scales in a way that makes them far easier to digest, woodshed, and have the results show up in your playing relatively quickly. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a shortcut, it’s simply a very efficient method if you’re willing to spend hours in the woodshed. In this guide we dispense with traditional concepts to give you the most efficient and effective way to not only learn a ton of scales, but to achieve levels of technique and precision that will serve you for years to come.
