(Guitar Educational). Finally, a guitar method solely for south paws! This comprehensive book covers: chords, scales, riffs and strumming; rock, blues, fingerpicking and other styles; tuning, theory and other fundamentals; reading standard notation and tab; and lots more. Includes lots of photos, diagrams and grids designed especially for the left-handed player.
This book maps out various Pentatonic and Blues Scales including: THE MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE, THE MAJOR PENTATONIC SCALE, THE MINOR BLUES SCALE, THE MAJOR BLUES SCALE, THE VOODOO BLUES SCALE, THE INDIAN PENTATONIC SCALE, THE DOMINANT PENTATONIC SCALE, and THE DORIAN PENTATONIC SCALE for you on left handed 6 string guitar in standard tuning. I've also included some bonus material for the shredders out there, 3 note per string pentatonic shapes, three octave 3 note string pentatonic shapes and three octave 3 note per string blues scales. Each scale or mode is mapped out all over the neck, and in all positions to let you play with any scale in any key anywhere on the guitar neck. The scales have been mapped out showing all the relative intervals in each pattern making it much easier for you apply the information to your playing by putting the dots in a harmonic context.
(Music Sales America). Tired of having to play "back to front" from scale books? Here's the answer the left-handers' guitar case scale book. Each scale shape has been specially designed for left handers, using clear diagrams and helpful hints and tips. All the scales you use in a handy 'guitar case' size.
Features over 25 of the most popular scales and modes used today. Each scale is shown in all 12 keys in both music notation and guitar fingerings. Special diagrams are included for the student to create his or her own guitar fingerings. Major, minor, rock pentatonics, jazz and modal scales are covered.
(Music Sales America). Here at last is a book that tackles these two vital areas in simple, no-nonsense terms. With over 400 diagrams and a comprehensive audio CD, bestselling guitar author David Mead teaches you how to construct chords and scales from the ground up, how to recognize important chord and scale families and how to organize your fretboard using the CAGED concept. With a chapter on improvisation providing vital tips on soloing over chord changes, this book is all you need to make your guitar solos sound more musical and develop all the instincts of a fully rounded musician.
This remarkably thorough text covers all the modes of the major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales. Twenty-one different modes are explained in detail and examined from five different perspectives. In addition, open position fingerings, closed position fingerings, harmonies, chord voicings, tips for improvisation, practice progressions, melodic patterns and sample solos are provided.
Contains chord forms for all of the most commonly used chords. Chords include major, minor, altered 7ths, diminished, augmented and many more. All forms are shown in picture and diagram form for the left-handed guitarist.
(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.
PENTATONIC SCALES FOR GUITAR: A Brief Introduction. The book gives you all the knowledge you need to play the Major and Minor pentatonic scale in any position anywhere on the neck. It assumes no knowledge of music theory, but fully explains what the pentatonic scale is and how it is formed, as well as explaining how you can use it it any key anywhere on the guitar neck.
