Scale Patterns: A Visual Approach to the Scales Most Commonly Used in Jazz, Rock, and Blues (The Progressive Guitarist Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0769209580 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 72 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Don also shows the primary uses for each scale, with an example of each.. This book illustrates, in each of five different positions, all the modes of the major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, pentatonic, blues, diminished and whole tone scales
Intuitive Reference I am a beginning jazz guitarist, but after purchasing Don Latarski's Chord Orbits book, I was hooked. Don Latarski uses an easy to read format to help learn the fretboard. Scale patterns are a breeze with this book. I am very pattern oriented in my learning, and Scale Patterns is the perfect guide or me. I use it daily in my practice routine.. "It really is one of the best at what it does" according to Michael Callaghan. Okay; there are many scale books out there, and if you have bought or searched any of them, you understand there are many not-so-useful scale books out there. You can get a book with over a hundred different scales, each spelled with questionable fingering and lack of contextual explanation (the majority of them), or you can get a book with a handful of scales all properly fingered and explained, along with usage descriptions. This book falls into the latter category.Specifically, this book ONLY covers the major scale, the natural minor, the 'jazz' melodic. Scales--and not much else! (Which is just what I wanted.) David R Exactly what it says, no frills, no wordy explanations. Just a page for each scale pattern. For example, if you want to know the pattern for mixolydian, simply turn to that page. The author gives a brief paragraph describing the most common usage for each scale, but it's really up to the guitarist to know the theory behind its application--and how the scales relate to one another.If you understand modes then you'll see why you'd really only need ONE page to cover seven scale patterns--you just have to make another scale degree the root but keep the same fi