Take Command Of Your Fretboard!: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

Concepts for Fretboard Mastery-Do you play the bass guitar but find parts of the fretboard to be uncharted territory? The Bass Fretboard Workbook will teach you how to conquer your fretboard's rough terrain and no music reading is required! Basic music theory helps improve your playing and ability to interact with other musicians. Take your playing to new levels with this systematic comprehensive method! Covers: interval basics and shapes; major minor & pentatonic scale patterns; triads and 7th chords; common chord qualities; and more plus 29 helpful quizzes to ensure your comprehension.

Learn how to take command of the fretboard with Matthew Von Doran. This incredible DVD will show you how to strengthen your grasp of scale chord & arpeggio vocabulary on the guitar by going from the big picture to the littlepicture of how it all works together. By exploring the shapes within the shapes on the fretboard you'll see how all of your patterns can be integrated into one macro-visualization. This DVD is filled with straight-forwardpractice concepts that use proven visualization techniques designed to accelerate your growth in all areas of guitar playing... theory technique improvising composing chord construction and more. And in the end you'll becreating music on a broader and deeper level than ever before. Also includes guitar jam tracks. Matthew Von Doran has been active in the Los Ang3eles music scene for over 30 years as a jazz and rock artist sideman session playerand educator. He has worked with numberous mands worldwide reflecting all styles and genres of music.

For The Modern Mandolinist - Volume 1. Theory and Improvisation for the Modern Mandolinist is a two book series that teaches improvisation in many musical styles along with theory concepts and how they apply to the mandolin. Each book provides access to different backing tracks and solo examples to help you learn. Every chapter includes scales presented in a variety of common formats: standard notation, tablature and fretboard charts. Volume 1, Building a Foundation, only requires that the reader can play notes and simple chords. It presents basic skills necessary for improvising over chord progressions found in all types of music. Sample solos and progressions are included at the end of each chapter to practice. Whether you play bluegrass, rock, pop or jazz, this book will take your solos to the next level. Includes access to online audio./ Tablatures / Mandoline

In this superb DVD Tom Quayle teaches you all of the essentials required to begin your journey with Jazz Lead Guitar playing. Includes lessons TAB and jam tracksTom takes the most important aspects of this style and breaks them down into easy to follow steps that take you from zero to swing hero in a short period of time.You’ll learn techniques such as scales arpeggios and chord tone playing swing time feel fretboard visualisation playing over changes intervals major and minor II-V-I’s and a fantastic professional backing track to practice your new skills with. Start your jazz journey the right way with this fantastic course.

Etudes and Familiar Chord Progressions for Two Guitars-Jazz Guitar Duets will take you on a journey through the entire range of the fretboard with 10 great jazz duets. Each duet is written in standard notation and is accompanied by audio recordings and in-depthanalysis. Read through the etudes alone or together with a friend to strengthen your sight-reading skills and develop your ability to read one part against a contrasting part. The accompanying online audio featurestracks of the authors playing each duet together along with additional tracks that isolate each part. Play along with one track to learn the nuances of jazz phrasing and articulation or play along with the other to create avirtual duet. Study the lines and read the analysis to develop stylistically authentic jazz vocabulary while increasing your awareness of two-part counterpoint in the context of jazz harmony.

Take you soloing into entirely new worlds of creativity and harmonic depth with this Musicians Institute Private Lessons complete guide to exotic scales and modes by Jean Marc Belkadi. Here are 16 tantalizing scales with all the harmonic knowledge you will need. This book and CD set has been devised by the celebrated Musicians Institute to transform your vocabulary with 80 demonstration tracks that will enable you to discover the unique characters and musical personalities of these mystical tonalities. The scales discussed include:PrometheusEnigmaticHebrew Hungarian Gypsy MinorHinduRomanianPersianDoubleAugmentedDouble Harmonic MinorByzantine...and many moreLearn to use these scales all over the fretboard and discover the supporting harmonies that will furnish your songwriting and improvisation with new chords and possibilities.

Ultimate Guitar Techniques Series-This superb DVD breaks down and explains the exciting guitar technique known as 'legato'. Smooth lightning fast runs can be performed easily either ascending or descending the fretboard. Useful scale shapes legato patterns andsix note octave copies are all shown here to great effect. Learn the legato styles popularised by guitar legends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. If you want to take your guitar techniques to the next level this excellent DVD tutorialwill give you a stockpile of legato licks to add to your repertoire.

Anne Dodson?s Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book 2 continues from Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book 1 (MB30608M) introducing two subsequent levels: ?BranchingOut? and ?You Take the Driver?s Seat?. These additional levels will improve your understanding of the fretboard and allow more seasoned players to create their own arrangements. Inside you will findextensive exercises and lots of original tunes with accompanying audio tracks. Fun relaxed and encouraging instruction is at the heart of Anne Dodson?s approach in this series. Book 2 offers more tunes in DAD tuning butalso introduces DGD and DAC tunings. Includes access to online audio.

A special close-up examination of the unique virtuoso techniques of guitar maestro Stanley Jordan. Jordan's multi-layered guitar sounds have created albums that defy conventions and catagorisations. He has taken the technique of two-handed tapping and developed a method of playing that pushes the technique to the limit creating the impression of two or three simultaneous guitars. This style of playing allows Jordan to perform otherwise impossible melodic lines. arrangements and chords that embrace the full range of the fretboard at once. The technique has given Jordan a unique Jazz voice and an unmistakable sound that is both captivating and thrilling to witness.This DVD coversall aspects of his tapping technique and how to develop the idea into full improvisations and solos including:Aspects of melody and the extended range offered by this techniqueDynamics and creating rich expressive guitar tonesUtilizing electronics to create alluring and unusual soundsPractice methods to minimise mistakes and boost your dexterityDiscover a whole new world of possibilities with this indispensable DVD from a true virtuoso. Includes a 28-page booklet of examples and exercises.