Improvising Lead Guitar
Title | Improvising Lead Guitar PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Skinner |
Publisher | Registry Publications Ltd |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2006-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1898466343 |
Jamming along with a band is the ultimate way of learning how to create your own guitar solos. The 10 track full band backing CD that accompanies this book enables you to do just that! On the CD youll hear a full band line-up, but without the lead guitar YOU will be the lead guitarist. Experience the thrill of creating your own guitar solos and playing along with your own band. The book explains from total beginner level: . how to improvise . how to invent stunning solos . how to create riffs and phrases . how to use scales and follow chord charts Everything is explained in a clear and straightforward way, with no compulsion to read traditional musical notation. This book and CD are also ideal as study aids for the Lead Guitar section of the Registry of Guitar Tutors Preliminary Grade electric guitar examination. By following this course youll learn, in a structured and comprehensive way, how to improvise and create exciting guitar solos in a wide range of musical styles.
Improvising Lead Guitar: Intermediate
Title | Improvising Lead Guitar: Intermediate PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Skinner |
Publisher | Registry Publications Limited |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781898466376 |
A guide to lead guitar improvisation, including an audio CD with full backing tracks. The book explains in a straightforward way how to: develop improvisation skills; invent solos; use scales, modes and arpeggios; enhance your playing with specialist techniques; and make your playing more creative.
Progressive Improvising Lead Guitar
Title | Progressive Improvising Lead Guitar PDF eBook |
Author | Muzician.com |
Publisher | LearnToPlayMusic.com |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2023-03-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9825328932 |
For beginner improvising lead guitarists. Teaches all the scales, arpeggios and techniques used in lead guitar and how to create licks and solos in a variety of styles, including Rock, Blues, Country, etc.
Improvising Lead Guitar: Beginner Plus
Title | Improvising Lead Guitar: Beginner Plus PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Skinner |
Publisher | Registry Publications Ltd |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781898466352 |
A guide to lead guitar improvisation, including an audio CD with full backing tracks. The book explains in a straightforward way how to: develop improvisation skills; invent solos; use scales, modes and arpeggios; enhance your playing with specialist techniques; and make your playing more creative.
From Scales to Solos
Title | From Scales to Solos PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Tippett |
Publisher | Graham Tippett |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 2017-05-08 |
Genre | Music |
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If you ask anyone who's been playing guitar for a while how to turn scales into solos, you'll likely get a variety of answers. They'll tell you to learn licks, work on your arpeggios, even learn your favorite players' solos note for note. While this is all good advice, I've had some particularly stubborn students that wanted to go beyond that; they wanted to be able to improvise using any scale up and down the fretboard, but at the same time break free from those deeply-ingrained scalar lines and patterns. It was then that I suggested the zonal approach to improvisation; by working in reduced areas of the neck with specifically designed patterns, they were soon able to create melodic, flowing lines that didn't sound at all like scales--they sounded like real music! This is the approach you'll find in this book. We dissect 15 of the most common scales, beyond the pentatonics, and break them down into zones which can be practiced either by scale, or for any particular scale across the fretboard. The objective of this book then is to provide a structured reference to make the transition from playing scales to playing, improvising and creating musical lines when soloing. It’s aimed at the intermediate to advanced guitarist looking to be able to improvise confidently and freely on the instrument in a wide variety of styles. It is also aimed at guitarists that want to move beyond rote pentatonic/blues soloing and incorporate other scales and modes into their playing, as well as building up a vocabulary to solo fluently over chord changes.
Guitar Hacks
Title | Guitar Hacks PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Tippett |
Publisher | Graham Tippett |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2017-04-16 |
Genre | Music |
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3NPS (three-note-per-string) scales, as used by legions of guitarists but popularized mainly by Joe Satriani, are one of the most efficient ways to navigate the fretboard and get your scales down IF you follow the guidelines in this book. As the name suggests, a 3NPS scale is any scale that contains three notes on each string, and as you'll see in this eBook, this makes for a very consistent way to map out scales on the guitar fretboard. What we’ve done here is revamped the 3NPS scale system and turned it into an incredibly effective means to learn a wide variety of scales all over the fretboard by streamlining the number of patterns, as well as the picking system. This is not a scale theory book, and contains no pentatonic scales. This is a quick and dirty (and very effective) method for learning 3NPS scales all over the fretboard; something to work on in the woodshed. It will improve your picking technique and speed. It does not require a great amount of thinking as you only need to learn two picking patterns, which is really one in two directions, and only three scale patterns instead of the usual seven per scale.
Beyond Pentatonics
Title | Beyond Pentatonics PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Tippett |
Publisher | Graham Tippett |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2018-05-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
A lot of students ask me how they can take their improvisation skills to the next level and move beyond pentatonic scales and into modes and arpeggios. My response is to tell them not to abandon pentatonic scales in favor of modes and other soloing devices, but to use them as a springboard and a solid foundation from which to expand their harmonic awareness. If you play rock, blues and even jazz, you’ll be using pentatonic scales for the rest of your life, so there’s no need to discard them! In this book, we’ll be using the much-loved minor pentatonic scale as the basis for learning and having a quick way to access the modes of the major scale, as well as the basic seventh chord arpeggios. This means that when you go to improvise, you'll have a vast array of options with which to go beyond pentatonic soloing. Work through this book daily and I guarantee you a smooth and painless transition from pentatonics to incorporating modes and arpeggios into your playing.