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Guitar Scales: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Guitar Fretboard

Guitar Scales: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Guitar Fretboard

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Availability:In StockContributor:Myles English (Illustrator), Diana English (Editor), Lloyd EnglishSeries:Understanding the Guitar #1Publish date:2014-02-07Pages:70
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781495902277ISBN-10:1495902277UPC:9781495902277Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Instruction & StudySize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC7SP1Y7TR
This could be the clearest most concise and useful book on Guitar Scales ever written. Ideal for the guitarist at every level wishing to have a comprehensive and functional understanding of the guitar fretboard and practical music fundamentals.This book reveals the guitar and music as elegant systems that are easy to understand if presented correctly. This course can be used in conjunction with private instruction or as a program of self directed study that has the capacity to take a novice player to an advanced intermediate level while establishing a firm grasp of guitar mechanics and the musical language.Each page is carefully laid out with clear and complete diagrams that demonstrate vertical chordal relationships as well as horizontal connections. Every scale form has been diagrammed with best fingering practices as well as suggested technical and musical exercises.Some of the most common scale sounds are covered including Major, Minor, Major Pentatonic and Minor Pentatonic complete with introductory suggestions for musical uses and accompanying technical exercises. Music notation is set at the bottom of each scale diagram page in order to provide a complete overall picture.
  • Clear and Concise Progressive Method
  • Learn How Scales Connect
  • Major Scales for Guitar
  • Minor Scales for Guitar
  • Major Pentatonic Scales for Guitar
  • Minor Pentatonic Scales for Guitar
  • Practical Examples and Scale Exercises for Guitar
  • Guitar Scale Diagrams
  • Beginner Guitar Scales
  • Music Theory for Guitar
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781495902277ISBN-10:1495902277UPC:9781495902277Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Instruction & StudySize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.15 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC7SP1Y7TR
Lloyd English studied with some of the most recognized teachers and performers in North America including Howard Roberts, Tony Braden and Bruce Clausen as well as workshops with Joe Pass, Herb Ellis and David Russell as well as private classical guitar studies with Eli Kassner, Robert Jordan, Robert Feuerstein and Dr. Alex Dunn. Lloyd's teaching appointments have included the Kassner Guitar Academy, Toronto and the Vancouver Academy of Arts as well as his own studios. He completed the Hindemith Harmony Method with Dr. Samuel Dolin (Royal Conservatory of Music), the Delamont Method with Darwin Aitken, Mr. Delamont's successor as well as the Berklee Method with Steven Brundage, student of William Leavitt. Lloyd has been a working musician all his life and has performed, recorded and produced music in a range of styles, his work has been played on syndicated radio and television networks worldwide. Today Lloyd continues to perform, record and teach and is currently working on an album of original compositions for guitar while being the programs director of My Pal Online Education. During his teaching career Lloyd has taken students from novice to professional level performing musicians with a unique methodology of integrated functional understanding that translates to an ability to speak the musical language clearly and creatively through the instrument.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Myles English (Illustrator), Diana English (Editor), Lloyd English

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Lloyd English

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