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 any guitarist's collection! Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for years to come!•

The Guitar Journals series is the ultimate reference guide to studies and solos in several different genres. This volume is dedicated to sight reading and presents studies based on each string, then continues with etudes in each of the 12 major and minor keys, offering studies in four different positions on the fretboard. This is a must-have source book for the student to professional musician's library, ideal for everyday use! The deluxe hard cover with hidden spiral binding and premium stock paper make this book a durable resource that you will treasure for years to come. This deluxe edition is the ultimate guide for mastery of note locations on the fretboard and the perfect reference manual for everyday sight-reading practice. -Ultimate guide for reading and mastery of the fingerboard and perfect reference manual for everyday use -Covers studies on each string, studies on each key (each of the 12 major and minor keys is presented in four different positions on the fingerboard and a study is presented for each, and four major and minor studies are presented in each position -Ideal for the student to professional musician

Music Journal for recording your daily instrument practice. This Journal has special pages at the back for recording practice routines, which you can customise and reference through the rest of the book. Fill in the back pages with special routines for practising Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and so on! At the back of this book there is a link for a free printable Mode/Scale sheet, to help you master the Modes, which are at the foundation of modern music including Rock, Metal, Jazz, Pop, and more. Cream Paper 300 Pages - 268 blank lined Matte Cover At the back of this book there is a link for a free printable Mode/Scale sheet, to help you master the Modes, which are at the foundation of modern music including Rock, Metal, Jazz, Pop, and more. Cream Paper 300 Pages - 268 blank lined Matte Cover

Do you love sitting at home playing guitar, but find yourself playing the same old things over and over without making much progress? When other musicians invite you to jam, do you worry that you won’t be able to keep up? Are you a veteran guitarist who has played for years, but you’re embarrassed to admit you have no idea what you’re doing? If you want to take your guitar playing to the next level, compose songs like you hear on the radio, and improvise your own music, then you need Fretboard Theory. Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna teaches music theory for guitar including scales, chords, progressions, modes and more. The hands-on approach to theory shows you how music "works" on the guitar fretboard by visualizing shapes and patterns and how they connect to make music. Content includes: * Learn pentatonic and major scale patterns as used to play melodies, riffs, solos, and bass lines * Move beyond basic chords and common barre chords by playing the types of chord inversions and chord voicings used by music's most famous players * Chart guitar chord progressions and play by numbers like the pros * Identify correct scales to play over chords and progressions so you can improvise at will * Create new sounds with music modes and get to know Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian * Add variety to your playing by using intervals such as thirds, fourths, and sixths * Increase your chord vocabulary by using added chord tones and extensions to play chord types such as major 7, minor 7, sus2, sus4, add9, and more * Learn how all the different aspects of music fit together to make a great song * See how theory relates to popular styles of music and familiar songs Fretboard Theory will have you mastering music like a pro easier and faster than you ever thought possible. Plus, it's the ONLY GUITAR THEORY RESOURCE in the world that includes important details to hundreds of popular songs. You learn how to play in the style of pop, rock, acoustic, blues, and more! This guitar instruction is perfect whether you want to jam, compose or just understand the music you play better. The material is suitable for both acoustic and electric guitar, plus it features many references to bass. Level: Recommended for intermediate level players on up. Video Fretboard Theory is also available as a 21-hour video series that is sold separately on the author's GuitarMusicTheory.com website. Visit the website and sign up for email lessons to sample the footage. Fretboard Theory Volume II When you're ready to take your playing to the next level, get the second book in the series, Fretboard Theory Volume II, which is also available as a 12-hour video series.

An in-depth guide to Matt Palmer's innovative approach to playing fast scales on the guitar. A logical, organized and distinctly original approach to A-M-I scale technique. Includes textual guidelines, figures, exercises, and excerpts from the standard repertoire. Classical/fingerstyle guitar. Intermediate/advanced levels. English language. Standard notation.

A fabulous technique book for the rock guitarist, Rock Lead Scales for Guitar presents an assortment of rock scales, and combines them with solos studies to develop a sense of the proper usage of individual scale segments.

This book explains music theory, scales modes, fret positions, fingering patterns, notation & tablature.