An in-depth guide to Matt Palmer's innovative approach to playing fast scales on the guitar. A logical, organized and distinctly original approach to A-M-I scale technique. Includes textual guidelines, figures, exercises, and excerpts from the standard repertoire. Classical/fingerstyle guitar. Intermediate/advanced levels. English language. Standard notation.
The Guitar Scales Vol. 1 is a complete guide to the scales that beginning and intermediate guitarists need for practicing and soloing. Each chapter covers a specific approach to these basic scales, including examples, exercises and studies. Music scores including fingerings, tablatures and grid diagrams, along with logical, step by step explanations allow the student to build his own understanding as well as the technical and improvising skills. the CD includes all music material of the book. Each example, exercise and study is recorded. In addition 8 rhythm section tracks provide a set of accompaniments for practical applications of each scale and its appropriate improvisational exercise.
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.
What makes the newly-released The Guitar Book: Volume 1 different? More often than not, traditional chord "dictionaries" go for quantity over quality. You know the ones--they gleefully proclaim to have "over 2,500 chords inside!" The problem is, many of these chord shapes sound awful, are too difficult to play, or both. Enter The Guitar Book: Volume 1! Covering nearly 100 pages, Volume 1 contains an abundance of easy-to-play chord shapes. Inside this book you will find: *150+ Arpeggios *100+ Open Chords *100+ Movable Chords *Major Chords *Minor Chords *Dominant Chords *Diminished Chords *Augmented Chords Chock-full of useful information, including hundreds of common, practical, and great-sounding guitar chords and arpeggios, Volume 1 can help you quickly learn all of the chords and arpeggios you need to know for guitar. Plus, get FREE access to instant audio downloads from Troy's website, troynelsonmusic.com. All of the material is presented in easy-to-understand fretboard diagrams and tab, making learning fast and fun! Author Troy Nelson has been playing guitar for over 30 years and has a passion for helping others learn to love the guitar as much as he does. From the author of the 10-year bestseller Guitar Aerobics (Hal Leonard), Troy Nelson once again brings his easy-to-follow guitar teaching style to this helpful guitar resource handbook. Free shipping with Amazon Prime. Buy it now in paperback or Kindle books! Also available: The Guitar Book: Volume 2 - The Ultimate Resource for Discovering New Guitar Scales, Exercises, and Licks! About Troy Nelson: Troy Nelson is the former Editor of top guitar magazines Guitar One (sister publication of Guitar World) and Guitar Edge. After earning a degree in Occupational Music, Nelson launched his music editing career at Hal Leonard Corporation, the world's largest print music publisher. Here's what others have to say about guitar lesson book author Troy Nelson: "Troy Nelson, guitar god." - Amazon reviewer "I'm a total fan of Troy's books and method of learning." - Amazon reviewer "Troy Nelson, former editor of my favorite guitar magazines." - Amazon reviewer "His brilliance is his ability to break the project down into practical, bite-sized daily medicine and, at the same time, add a nice flavor to the dose." - Amazon Reviewer, Fretboard Freedom "I must say, I have noticed a big improvement in my playing. My wife no longer tells me to turn it down or off." - Amazon Reviewer, Guitar Aerobics "Another winner from Troy Nelson." - Amazon reviewer, Rhythm Guitar 365 "I LOVE this book. It's my first purchase from Troy Nelson, and it's got me interested in his other books" - Amazon reviewer, One-Man Guitar Jam
A -must have- book for every serious guitarist. One of the most comprehensive works ever undertaken to teach the two octave fingerings of the modes and arpeggios nested within the MAJOR, HARMONIC MINOR, and MELODIC MINOR scales, in addition to full fretboard navigation of the SYMMETRIC and PENTATONIC scales. These fingering patterns provide a comprehensive roadmap of the fret board which will give the guitarist unlimited options for improvisation and guitar arranging. Used alongside the building of repertoire, transcription and composition of solos, and improvisation studies, this material in this book will give the guitarist the ability to see the fretboard as a endless array of possibilities for musical expression. Do you want to prepare for studying guitar in a university? Are you currently studying guitar in a university? Do you wish you had been able to study guitar in a university? If so, this book is for you. If you have ever been stuck in a rut and in need of a road map for mastering the guitar, this book is for you. If you are one of those unique individuals with a relentless drive to learn and master every nook and cranny of the fretboard, this book is for you. THE FRETBOARD: Vol 1 - Scales, Modes, and Arpeggios will provide you a lifetime of learning and efficient development for your hands, mind, and ears. This work presents the material in a systematic approach which results in mastering the fretboard in an efficient and effective manner. Beginning with 12 fingerings for the major scale, the book takes you down a path in which you will learn how to play two octaves of ANY scale, mode, or arpeggio in ANY key at ANY position on the neck. The book then teaches how to blend this knowledge into one comprehensive map of the fretboard with the ultimate goal of -forgetting- scale and arpeggio fingerings and instead experiencing total freedom to play the guitar to its full potential. Digging this well of fretboard knowledge will release a new level of creativity in the guitarist's soloing, arranging, and technique. The material is presented both in standard notation with in-depth spelling of scales, modes, and arpeggios, as well as in large block diagrams showing fingering patterns with which to use this material to cover the entire neck in any key. Whether you play jazz, rock, funk R&B, country, western swing, bluegrass, blues, or classical, mastering the material in this book will go far in making you a master guitarist. A companion video lesson for this book will be available in 2017. You can sign up to receive David DeLoach's newsletter at his website (MasterGuitarists.com) to receive notification when this video is released.
(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.
(Guitar Method). This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.
