(Guitar Method). Here at last is the long awaited, definitive jazz guitar scale method by music legend Chuck Wayne. With a career that includes recordings with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Woody Herman, George Shearing, and Tony Bennett, Chuck Wayne's approach to the guitar and improvisation has paved the way for a generation of guitarists. This book presents an in-depth analysis of his own highly influential developments in technique and jazz theory. Dozens of examples and exercises are featured that Chuck Wayne has found invaluable in his own teaching.
Applicable to classic, flatpick or fingerstyle guitar, this excellent text relates scales and modes to chord construction, solo playing, and fretboard position a must for the advancing guitarist! Includes many outstanding original guitar studies to teach the guitarist how to apply the theoretical knowledge gained from under-standing, playing, and hearing the scales.
As staff guitarist on the Mike Douglas Show for nearly 20 years and close to 30 years as Chairperson of the Guitar Department at the Philadelphia University of Arts, Bob adds to your sound palette as he presents the major, Dorian, Mixolydian, diminished, Lydian, whole tone scales and more. He paints solid musical examples on chordal backgrounds. Standard notation with string indications and fingerings added.
(Guitar Book). Adapted from Carl Czerny's School of Velocity, Op. 299 for piano, this lesson book explores 12 keys with 12 different approaches or "treatments." You will explore a variety of articulations, ranges and technical perspectives as you learn each key. These arrangements will not only improve your ability to play scales fluently, but will also develop your ears, knowledge of the fingerboard, reading abilities, strength and endurance. In standard notation and tablature.
As staff guitarist on the Mike Douglas Show for nearly 20 years and close to 30 years as Chairperson of the Guitar Department at the Philadelphia University of Arts, Bob adds to your sound palette as he presents the major, Dorian, Mixolydian, diminished, Lydian, whole tone scales and more. He paints solid musical examples on chordal backgrounds. Standard notation with string indications and fingerings added.
Jazz virtuoso Johnny Smith presents his complete system of chord analysis, scale and arpeggio study, and practical theory application. This is one of the most useful books to be found in any jazz guitarist's library! Lessons include 2-octave scales, 6th chord forms, alterations of chords, resolution exercises, scales and arpeggios, upper extensions from 9th to 13th chords, suspended fourth chords, voicing major and minor chords with a 4th step melody, alterations of upper extended chords, and much more. In order to represent the guitar in the octave it actually sounds, the bass clef is used when appropriate. Book is in actual pitch notation/grand staff notation (treble and bass clefs) per the author's preferences.
Guitar by Trinity College London (approximately 1980- )
This is an excellent technique study text. It is divided into two sections. the first, the Art of Single String Soloing, presents concepts and ideas for improvisation. Chord relationships are explored in each key, phrasing and progressions are discussed and a wealth of single string studies are given. Part two, Jazz Single String Studies, presents a thorough grounding in jazz scales and related technique studies. Written in notation with appropriate chord symbols. the aspiring jazz guitarist will gain a wealth of picking technique and linear improvisational ideas by working through and mastering this text.
A fabulous technique book for the rock guitarist, Rock Lead Scales for Guitar presents an assortment of rock scales, and combines them with solos studies to develop a sense of the proper usage of individual scale segments.
This book represents an all-out assault on jazz guitar technique written by legendary jazz guitarist Sal Salvador. Virtually every aspect of plectrum-style technique is addressed in detail through explanatory text and clearly focused exercises. This book also features a comprehensive presentation of short and long form scales and arpeggios, string skipping, and tremolo exercises, slur studies, cross-picking technique, and scale and interval reading exercises in all keys. Bach transcriptions for plectrum-style guitar provide an unexpected bonus. In standard notation only.
In this book, Jody Fisher, author of the best-selling Complete Jazz Guitar Method, helps guitarists with their most common problems. Jazz Skills clarifies everything from understanding altered chords to spelling out changes in solos and developing a better technique. A great supplement for any serious guitarist's studies, this easy-to-use book will fill the gaps for even the most experienced player.
This useful booklet contains scale and arpeggio exercises in fretboard diagram form, and harmonized scales and picking studies in notation and tablature. These studies can be used as part of a daily practice routine for warm-up and dexterity building.
Perhaps one of the most comprehensive books of its type on the market, this exhaustive and intelligent presentation of the myriad of scales and modes makes this a must have text for the guitarist who is interested in developing his skills of jazz improvisation. The highly acclaimed author/teacher and performer Vincent Bredice very carefully moves the student through all the common modes. Each mode is explored thoroughly by using chord and arpeggio studies in a variety of positions and/or inversions. This outstanding text is a wonderful resource for one's library as well as an excellent teaching and learning tool. Since a good musician must hear sounds quickly and accurately, in addition to enhancing one's technical and improvising ability, Jazz Guitar Scales and Modes, will help tremendously with ear training as well. The author emphasizes the importance of being able to play and understand modal scales in first position before moving them up the neck using pattern fingerings. Contains excellent studies lines.
This book includes a multitude of beginning to intermediate studies, designed to build right-hand picking technique and coordination between both hands. The material includes vertical picking exercises across various string combinations, linear picking studies, tremolo studies, warm-ups, picking etudes, triplet exercises and picking solos–essential material that will supplement any guitar method. Written in standard notation and tablature.
A great supplement to any note-reading guitar method. Helps students methodically learn the fretboard from the second position upward. the book contains fun-to-play studies and songs in upper fretboard positions, as well as giving the student scales, rhythmic studies, and periodic reviews of positions previously studied. In the author's words, Learning the positions is a must if you are ever to become expert on the guitar. Written in standard notation only.
This exhaustive study of scales is a must-own for any improvising guitarist. Published in collaboration with one of America's leading guitar schools, it provides the practical information you need to use each scale in a solo. With each scale, you get an explanation of the scale and its uses, a fingering on one string, six-string fingerings in all keys in a cycle of fourths, three-note per string fingerings, and a chord vamp to practice the scale over. Give your playing a unique edge with exotic scales from all over the world. This easy-to-use book even includes a section on how to practice scales. The Ultimate Guitar Scale Bible should be part of every guitarist's library.
(Guitar Solo). This Berklee Workshop is designed for serious guitarists who want to sharpen their high register reading skills and take their playing expertise to the next level. It introduces studies in all keys, using positions 8 through 12 and all major, minor and symmetric scales. Individual studies consist of scale passages, arpeggios, intervals and notated chord sequences in various time signatures.