In this fantastic Musicians Institute Private Lessons volume Jean Marc Belkadi reveals the secrets of using the diminished scale in over thirty lessons and sample phrases. A comprehensive guide for guitarists that covers: tonal and modal usage chromaticism apreggios polytonalities common licks in many styles and more! The CD includes over 30 tracks including full demo and sample phrases.

A technique building regimen built around jazz chords and scale shapes. The basic chord is shown followed by the appropriate arpeggio and scale. In addition an ?ear stretching? etude is presented for each chord and scaleshape.

21st Century Chords for Guitar offers a new perspective on Guitar chords. The standard chords that we all know work to 'get us through' any accompaniment situation. However there are more expressive possibilities to be found.In these pages you will see that the Guitar is much less limited than is generally realized. Through the 12-tone system or Atonal Music theory I have found interesting voicings for many 'every-day' chords. You will also findvery unusual sounding chords that you probably wouldn't figure out using other methods. My goal is to help change the way we as Guitar players think of chords on the instrument so check it out!

This Modern Guitar Supplement segments the guitar fretboard into five zones/positions. Basic chord progressions are presented in each zone. The material in this book is applicable to all styles of contemporary music.

Master the art of blending melody and harmony on the guitar with this book/CD pack. It includes in-depth studies of chords and chord melodies as well as a CD containing 90 demonstration tracks. Lessons include: The five patternsChord shellsInversionsVoice leading CadencesDiminished chordsand more.

This is a 'tried and true' must-have book for the guitarist who wishes to learn commonly used barre chords chord structure the similarities and relationships of one chord to another and most importantly the locations of noteson the fretboard. Diagrams and descriptions are laid out progressively in a way that will make this information easy to understand and use. This book is a valuable resource for the beginner who wishes to learn a few chords aswell as the advanced player in need of a comprehensive chord reference. Written in diagram format.

Melodic Minor Guitar will help you learn fingerings for the melodic minor scale while discovering the magical Augmented Major 7th chord and arpeggio that is found within it. Scale and arpeggio fingering positions are coordinatedin a way that will simplify things and have you making music in no time at all. Modes and chords of the melodic minor scale are explained along with written examples that demonstrate melodic ideas over common chord progressions.You will also find an entire solo written on the changes of a popular jazz standard plus many colorful chord voicings derived from the melodic minor scale.

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! •

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 exercisesand 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 CDincludes 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 appropriateimprovisational exercise.

The transition from rock to jazz can sometimes be a bit intimidating to Guitarists young and old. Jazz Chords for Rock Guitarists by John G. Maione endeavors to take the 'mystery' out of jazzharmonies and make them accessible to every guitarist.More importantly this book logically progressively and practically builds on the knowledge attained by any guitarist competent in the rock genre and leads them in avery organized step-by-step way to learning and understanding the basic elements of jazz harmony and to using functional jazz guitar chord forms in their playing.Beginning with a review of basic power and 'bar' chords this text then proceeds to begin 'bridging the gap' to jazz by working on basic blues progressions usually familiar to all rock guitarists but this time using basic jazz chord voicings and forms.The student guitarist canthen build upon these newly discovered jazz forms learned through the blues by learning many more related jazz chord forms and voicings all built on the 6th string and 5th string roots the roots of learning rockguitar!This book is geared through logical step-by-step progression and clear explanations for any rock guitarist ready and eager to explore the exciting and unlimited world of jazz!

A comprehensive but very usable and easy-to-understand chord reference text. The most useful and best-sounding forms of each chord are shown in each key. In addition handy side tabs help you locate the exact chord form neededin seconds. Other features of this handy chord book are: carefully laid-out pages and visually appealing chord diagrams chord scale tones shown for each chord names of actual notes shown for each chord for each basicchord shown in notation and a master fingerboard diagram for each key showing note location!

Rather than the usual alphabetic or encyclopedic chord listing (C Cm C- C+ etc.) this comprehensive chord reference book presents guitar chords as they are actually used in specific keys (C Am F G7 Dm E7). Chords arefurther classified in five basic 'zones' on the fretboard. By learning each zone carefully and playing the review studies at the end of each section guitarists can enhance their knowledge of chord forms and their ability to 'makethe changes' throughout the entire fretboard. An important appendix presents essential music theory regarding scale and chord construction while offering additional chord forms in each zone. Highly recommended for guitarists ofall playing levels. Includes DVD. DVD 103:28 minutes.

Guitar Chord Dictionary is a fact-filled reference book that allows you to quickly look up chords in all positions. Superbly presented the clear chord diagrams photographs fingering patterns and illustrations make this guide very easy to follow and great for beginners. Morton Manus' guide also includes information on tuning and an introduction to the basics of music notation.

The FINGERBOARD series was created to progressively improve upon fretboard knowledge sight-reading and all other topics and to be included in a study plan that corresponds to the other volumes in my catalogue of educational material. In this 4th Volume of the FINGERBOARD series we get a deeper knowledge of MELODIC ARPEGGIOS: that?s why I named it ARPEGGIOLOGY.3 4 and 5 note arpeggios are fundamental not only to understanding and knowing the fretboard but to improvisation in any genre of music. For this reason you will see arpeggios to be studied with different techniques fingerings and voicings on the fretboard: from the CAGED system and arpeggio inversions(very useful in jazz) to sweep picking arpeggios and _x001F_ngerings more suitable to shredding! There are also ?Unit Recaps? that will help you find harmonic shortcuts and create examples to put into use immediately on your own!A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING IN THESE EDUCATIONAL BOOKS: Hours of video content ready for your television computer hand-held device phone or tablet You will get the maximum results from each lesson by watching the video with the book open in front of you! It?s like having a personal private lesson with me. You will find that some lessons put more importance on the video and others more on the written lesson. In the ROM section of the DVD you will find videos ready for your portable devices some playalong mp3s to study with (the same ones I use in the video) and the ?click to speed up? function my idea to help you successfully increase your velocity little by little. Copy the files to your portable device whether a new-generation phone tablet or any other device and bring my lessons with you!Backing tracks are in the DVD?s ROM section all the examples in the Video DVD