The Diminished Scale for Guitar

An easy reference for acoustic or electric guitar. This book for both acoustic and electric guitarists is designed to be a handy guide to the two most important components of playing: chords and scales. More than just a reference it will also help you understand how chords and scales are created named and used and how they are related to each other. Includes over 1 400 chord diagrams; major minor pentatonic blues and diminished scales; and modes. Teaches how to understand intervals and build major minor augmented diminished and extended chords.

This chart clearly presents major scales minor scales major pentatonic scales blues scales Mixolydian Mode Dorian Mode Lydian Mode Phyrgian Aeolian and Locrian Modes plus the enigmatic scale chromatic scale whole-tonescale diminished scale and Neapolitan major and minor scales. This chart is excellent not only for the beginner but also for the advanced player.

Expand the boudaries of your knowledge and improvisation skills with this exciting book which picks up where the improv lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off. Topics include improvising over altered dominant chords the diminished scale the whole-tone scale targeting the altered chords revamping licks modes of the minor scales and more! Loaded with easy-to-read scale diagrams and example phrases this book is packed with essential information for the improvising jazz guitarist.

East Coast Books-Due to the incredible success of all our portable 'case-style' chord books we decided to extend that 'perfect size' and that 'at-a-glance' theory to scales and modes. Portable Scales & Modes is designed to meet the size specific dimensions you've come to appreciate in a quick and easy reference guide from Santorella Publications. To follow is a listing of all the information that can be found in this incredible book. Ionian Mode - Dorian Mode - Phrygian Mode - Lydian Mode - Mixolydian Mode - Aeolian Mode - Locrian Mode - Minor Scale Introduction - Harmonic Minor Scale - Jazz Melodic Minor Scale - Lydian Dominant Scale - Super Locrian Mode - Minor Pentatonic Scale - MajorPentatonic Scale - Blues Scale - Diminished Scale - Whole Tone Scale - Spanish Phrygian Scale - How To Determine The Correct Scale or Mode - Harmonized Major Scales - Harmonized Harmonic Minors - Harmonized Jazz - Melodic Minors.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Rock Series : Grossman Audio Number of pages : 56 LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B.B.KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T.BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions and how to improvise with them, how to do the blues vibrato, and how to use fill-in licks, chords and turnarounds. LESSON TWO: MODERN ROCK: ENGLISH BLUES and HEAVY METAL - This lesson concentrates on the licks, scales and playing styles of Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page - guitarists whose playing directly derives from the blues masters. This lesson includes instruction in effects (distortion, vibrato bar, etc.), blues and sliding scales. LESSON THREE: JAZZY ELECTRIC BLUES - Our last lesson in the series illustrates how to jazz up the 12-bar blues progression, how to vary the blues scales with diminished scales á la Charlie Christian, how to apply blues scales to jazz tunes, how to substitute scales, and the special techniques used by Wes Montgomery and George Benson.

Rob MacKillop presents DADGAD Blues an impressive collection of 20 fantastic fingerstyle blues compositions and arrangements exclusively for DADGAG tuning.The styles covered in this collectionrange from country blues boogie woogie left-hand piano blues early jazz-blues gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Accompanying audio is available as an online download which includes backing tracks and performances by RobMacKillop to accompany you whilst playing classic songs such as St. James Infirmary Blues St. Louis Blues C. C. Rider and much more alongside 15 full-length studies.The book begins with easier arrangementsprogressing through intermediate and onto advanced ones. A multitude of chord and scale fingerings are provided including pentatonic minor and major scales blues scales diminished scales and arpeggios 7th chords whole-tonescales and the super locrian mode amongst many more. All the songs included with this book have an online audio accompaniment recorded by Rob MacKillop and are readily available to download.

Everything you ever wanted to know about 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 and a bio of Troy Stetina.

Week five includes lessons on major and minor pentatonic motifs note placements major pentatonics for soloing using the open high E string using the E diminished chord and dominant arpeggios. Advanced blues in six weeks is the next step from the already classic 'Electric Blues In Six Weeks'. This series goes deep into the possibilities of blues soloing analysing the true diversity between between some of the best blues guitar players who have explored the genre. From the string bending and jazz concepts of BB King to the amazing fast blues rock runs of Joe Bonamassa. Concepts such as diminished scale usage made popular by Robben Ford are demonstrated and taughtfor practical application.Artists such as Larry Carlton also bring a jazz flavour to the blues and popular ideas such as playing off of the 'five chord' are discussed and utilized. For anyone trying to take their playing to the next level Advanced blues in six week will give you plenty of new ideas licks and inspiration to help you take a further step into better understanding and playing of blues guitar.

Advanced Blues in Six Weeks is the next step from the already classic Electric Blues In Six Weeks. This series goes deep into the possibilities of blues soloing analysing the true diversity between between some of the best blues guitar players who have explored the genre. From the string bending and jazz concepts of BB King to the amazing fast blues rock runs of Joe Bonamassa. Concepts such as diminished scale usage made popular by Robben Ford are demonstrated and taught for practical application. Artists such as Larry Carlton also bring a jazz flavour to the blues and popular ideas such as playing off of the 'five chord' are discussed andutilized. For anyone trying to take their playing to the next level Advanced blues in six week will give you plenty of new ideas licks and inspiration to help you take a further step into better understanding and playing of blues guitar.

This book will give bassists insight into many of the scales used in jazz. Each scale is presented with standard notation tablature and fingering patterns for both one octave and two octaves. The book starts with the basic majorscales then delves into the modes (Lydian Phrygian etc.) altered scales bebop scales pentatonic scales blues scales and symmetric scales (diminished scales whole-tone scales and chromatic scales). If you are not familiarwith these terms don't fear; they are explained clearly in the book. Along the way the authors offer advice and exercises to help you use the scales in improvisation. While not going into great depth or giving numerous examplesfor each scale this book will give the bassist a thorough understanding of the wide variety of scales available for improvising. Plan to spend some time practicing and working out your own patterns once you have mastered the onesin the book. The scale fingerings presented are applicable to both electric and upright Bass.

Mel Bay's latest series Guitar Journals is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This huge collection of scales is perfect for guitarist's everyday use. They are all covered here:major; natural melodic and harmonic minor; diminished; whole-tone; bebop; blues; altered; pentatonic; Hungarian; Neapolitan; Japanese; Arabian; Balinese; Byzantine; and many many more. This is a must-have for anyguitarist's collection! •