Sliding the Scale

Scott A. Smith teaches you all the essential blues phrasing techniques and tricks. Learn simple concepts like solo construction, phrasing over a 12-bar blues, the blues scale, pentatonic box patterns, and playing multiple scales over a single chord. Also, learn practical, effective techniques like trills, slides, and rakes. In-depth lessons on bending teach you how to use target notes, initial and destination notes, pre-bends, and how to combine bends with box patterns. The included DVD is hosted by Smith and features live demonstrations of the examples in the book. About the Author For the past three decades, Scott A. Smith has remained a dedicated guitarist, musician, and educator. This native Texan started playing guitar in the late '70s and has worked in a variety of genres, including blues, rock, country, and jazz. Scott is a GIT graduate and was featured in the Mike Varney Spotlight column in Guitar Player magazine. No stranger to the road and stage, this veteran guitarist has traveled near and abroad, performing live, teaching, giving clinics, and spreading his love for the instrument. / Guitare

Description String Skipping & Wide Interval Soloing: 212 Melodic Studies and Patterns for Guitar is a much-needed guitarist’s guide to mastering wide interval soloing. This collection of repeating, continuous motion studies shows the guitarist how to develop melodic patterns that are characterized by large intervallic jumps in pitch, from one note to the next, in constant succession. This book presents four unique approaches to developing wide interval soloing, all of which utilize string skipping: 1) double pentatonic scales, which are three-note-per-string pentatonic scale patterns; 2) octave sliding, which uses sliding octave shapes in a variety of ways; 3) stacked fifths, which are wide interval shapes derived from pentatonic scales; and 4) wide interval arpeggios derived from the diatonic major scale. The sound that results from these techniques is exciting and unpredictable because it is such a departure from conventional melodic flow, which tends to be scalar, moving stepwise from one note in a scale to the next. By contrast, wide interval soloing is angular and skewed with big skips and sudden directional changes, creating a complex and fascinating sound. All of the studies in this book are designed as melodic etudes that can be applied directly to soloing in rock, jazz, fusion, and blues music. This book is ideal for serious guitarists in any style who want to break out of typical soloing patterns and create a more explosive, radical sound! CD included.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy-to-absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of lead guitar playing. You will learn essential lead guitar techniques that can be used in any style of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Covers: string bending hammer on and pull off sliding vibrato · how to play simple phrases and licks · the pentatonic scale · the blues scale · extended scales · getting a great sound · note positions on the fretboard · effect pedals overview including distortion compression reverb delay and octave · and more.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of ROCK guitar playing. Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending hammer on and pull off sliding and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. This DVD includes essential rock guitar techniques including: Hammer-on and pull-off techniques · String bending · Slides · The blues scale · The natural minor scale · The minor pentatonic scale · Connecting these patterns on the fretboard · Natural harmonics · Pinched harmonics and much more.

Week four includes Joe Bonamassa style blues guitar techniques including phrasing and timing accents and sliding between positions using the 9th and hybrid picking. Also includes a blues jam track.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 analyzing 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 flavor 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.

Rock Licks For Absolute Beginners includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of Rock Guitar playing.Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential lead Guitar techniques such as string bending hammer on and pull off sliding and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal.Rock Licks For Absolute Beginners includes: Essential rock guitar techniques including Hammer-on and pull-off techniquesString bendingSlidesThe blues scaleThe natural minorscaleThe minor pentatonic scaleConnecting these patterns on the fretboardNatural harmonicsPinched harmonics and much more

Introducing New T3N Harmonic Chimes-The definitive text on playing harmonics (chimes) on the 5-string banjo in G tuning! In addition to traditional chiming methods the author’s new T3N technique for creating banjo harmonics will add new dimensions to yourplaying. While particularly useful in the three-finger style T3N can be used in other banjo styles and on other stringed instruments. Most banjo players are familiar with playing open-string harmonics on the 5-string banjoover the 12th 7th and 5th frets or perhaps the 4th and 9th frets so that in typical G-tuning the open G-chord D-chord octave G-chord and B-chord notes are chimed. With the T3N technique presented in this book entire scalescan be chimed with other harmonic effects including choking and sliding possibilities! The first part of this book provides a review of traditional banjo harmonic chiming techniques while the second part explores theexciting new T3Napproach. Written in tablature only for 5-string banjo in GDGBD tuning.

In Book 4A of this outstanding series Helen Marlais and Kevin Olson provide students with creative structured lessons and activities to further develop their sight reading abilities. New concepts include: sliding the thumb under the third finger; reading intervals that include ledger lines; the beginning of playing one octave scales; further study of intervals cadences chord progressions and keys; to name a few.

A valuable tutor which demonstrates the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use. Learn how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key and in a variety of styles. Includes tuition onmoveable patterns double-note licks and sliding pentatonic scales with easy to follow diagrams. Includes online audio with full demo tracks for all the examples.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of rock guitar playing. You will learn some essential guitar techniques such as string bending hammer on and pull off sliding and vibrato that can also be used in other styles of guitar playing like jazz and metal. This DVD includes: essential rock techniques (including rock rhythm patterns) · power chords and chord inversions · lead guitar licks and sequences · pentatonic blues and natural minor scales · dynamics · accenting · string bending · getting a rock sound clean sound and distortion sound · palm muting · hammer-ons andpull-offs · tremolo bar effects.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy-to-absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing. You'll learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending hammer-on and pull-off sliding and vibrato that can be used in styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Topics covered include: 12-bar blues in E (dominant 7th chords) · fingerstyle blues · chord embellishments · 8-bar blues · quick change blues and shuffle rhythms · 12-bar blues in A (6th and 9th chords) · blues bends · soloing over a blues progression (licks double stops turnaround licks) · scales arpeggios and muchmore!