A complete scale encyclopedia for guitar with over 400 scales and modes. It contains scale diagrams with notation and tablature for each scale and tips on how and when to use each scale. Our ScaleFinder System, using icons and letters, makes scale finding easy. It also contains outside jazz scales, exotic scales, Peter's own CrossStringing scales, and easy to understand explanation of scales and modes. This is the only scale book you'll ever need.
If you enjoyed the simple and intuitive and musical method that we used in the Intermediate Scales Handbook, you’ll be pleased to know you can easily use it to incorporate exotic scales into your playing. I’ve hand-picked 15 of my favorite exotic scales and modes that I think are really useful for adding different flavors to your solos or exploring new sonic territory on the instrument. You’ll be able to incorporate these new sounds into your playing as I’ve laid out the book according to chord types you already know and probably use all the time. Then, in the final section of the book, we’ll look at two easy-to-follow methods for creating strange and beautiful chord progressions from any scale in this book. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the original Intermediate Scales Handbook, as this ‘exotic scales’ edition can easily be used as a stand-alone book. On the other hand, if you have covered the material from the original book, you’ve already paved the way for these new scales and modes to slot nicely into your improvisational repertoire.
FINALLY, LEARN HOW IT ALL FITS TOGETHER Confused about guitar scales? Knowing how to play scales and knowing how to use them are two different things. Seeing shapes outlined on the fretboard is useful, but it doesn't help us understand what to do with them! This is a common frustration with many scale books for guitar. What's the point of learning all this information if we're unable to make something musical out of it? Learn Your Guitar Scales provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental patterns that underpin everything we do on guitar. Beyond simply demonstrating what these shapes look like, this book explores the sound, structure, and common uses of each pattern in context. This guide also offers various tips and exercises for applying this information practically. Insightful and easy to understand, this is a must-have handbook for any guitar player wanting to make sense of how it all fits together! ONLINE BONUS: This book is complete with free online bonus material. It comes bundled with a companion website to enhance your learning experience. Extras include audio examples, backing tracks, bonus downloads, and more. Join thousands of students worldwide! Like easy-to-follow lessons, pro playing tips, and jam-packed value? You'll love learning from this international bestselling instructor. SCROLL UP AND BUY NOW TO GET STARTED
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.
A Must Have For Every Guitar Player! This book can be used as a learning, reference or practice tool to explore new scales and shapes to help improve your improvisational skills or practice routine. Going from the simplest scales, such as the Minor Pentatonic scale, through to the more complex, such as Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor scales, this book uses 3-note per string and CAGED shapes to connect the different shapes across the whole fretboard. This book can be used simply as a reference point for shapes to play for certain scales/modes, or to further develop your knowledge and practice routines to become the ultimate guitar player! Put together by musician Karl Golden, who has been playing guitar professionally for over 10 years and is now a big influencer in the YouTuber community, with well over 48 million views on his content. Over 70 Practice Exercises Over 70 practice exercises with full notation to help you learn the scales and modes in this book. Over 30 Scales and Modes The Major Scale Dorian Mode Phrygian Mode The Lydian Mode The Mixolydian Mode The Aeolian Mode The Locrian Mode The Minor Pentatonic Scale The Major Pentatonic Scale The Blues Scale The Harmonic Minor Scale The Locrian Natural Six Mode The Ionian Sharp Five Mode The Dorian Sharp Four Mode The Phrygian Dominant Mode The Lydian Sharp Two Mode The Super Locrian Mode The Melodic Minor Mode The Dorian Flat Two Mode The Lydian Augmented Mode The Lydian Flat Seven Mode The Mixolydian Flat Six Mode The Locrian Sharp Two Mode The Altered Scale The Whole-Half Diminished Scale The Half-Whole Diminished Scale The The Whole Tone Scale Also touches on more obscure modes such as Hungarian Minor Scale,The Persian Scale, The Hirajoshi Pentatonic Scale, The Arabian Scale and Scottish Pentatonic Scale. Useful CAGED and 3-Note-Per-String-Shapes Easy CAGED box shapes that can be moved anywhere on the neck for any key as well as 3-note-per-string shapes. Don't learn hundreds of unnecessary scale shapes!
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.
The first part of this edition teaches a very specific portion of music theory with the goal of providing a thorough foundation for building chords and arpeggios. The second part reveals the unique fingerboard patterns arising from the nature of the guitar's six-string tuning and applies these essential patterns to teaching every aspect of building chords and arpeggios for the guitar. Clear illustrations are abundant throughout this text, making its wealth of information easier to learn and apply. This book is accessible to those who have never learned to read music notation, presenting ideas that anyone can understand and utilize. Self-tests are featured at the end of each chapter facilitating complete and thorough comprehension. Even though this text accelerates rapidly through intermediate and advanced levels, it will also benefit the beginner with no previous musical experience.
Designed for beginners, this interactive book and streaming video course, in an easy lesson format, is all that you will need to get started playing the guitar! Music professor and guitar instructor, Damon Ferrante guides you through 100 step-by-step, easy-to-follow lessons and streaming video lessons that are the perfect introduction to playing the guitar. His method, used by thousands of guitar students and teachers, will will greatly improve your guitar technique, song repertoire, creativity, and understanding of music. Each lesson is interactive, engaging and fun! You learn how to play the guitar through learning songs. No music reading is required! Ask yourself this: 1. Have you always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, but did not know where to start? 2. Did you start guitar lessons once and give up because the lessons were too difficult? 3. Are you struggling to follow online guitar lessons that seem to jump all over the place without any sense of direction or consistency? 4. Would you like to expand your musical understanding and learn how to play the guitar through an affordable, step-by-step book and video course? If your answer to any of the these questions is yes, then this guitar book and video course is definitely for you. Scroll up to get your copy today!
