The Essentials: Chord Charts, Seales, and Lead Patterns for Guitar: Chord Charts, Scales and Lead Patterns for Guitar Book

This book is truly essential to the aspiring guitarist. It includes the most commonly played chords on the guitar in all keys, plus a bonus of the most commonly used scales and lead patterns. You can quickly learn all the chords, scales and lead patterns you need to know to play your favorite songs-and solo over them, too! The Essentials doesn t stop there, though. It also includes chord progressions to help you learn how to chord songs in folk, country, rock, blues and other popular styles. The books contain loads of easy to understand diagrams of chords, scales and lead patterns so you will be up and running in no time! There are also lots of internet links to get additional information on subjects such as music theory, tuning notes, additional chord progressions, string changing guides, and many more free files to help you develop your guitar playing with the best information and the least amount of confusion. If you want to dig deeper into chords, music theory, rhythm, strumming and other aspects of the guitar that are important to your musical growth, it s all there. EXCERPT ONE There are 22 scales or modes that are commonly used in contemporary music. This book will cover the four most used scales.* There is quite a learning curve involved with understanding scales on the guitar, mostly because there are so many possible places to play the same scale and so many alternate fingerings. I suggest you strike a balance between thinking about the scales and their various names, degrees, fingerings and patterns and the creative/fun side of noodling around with the scales or parts of the scale over chord progressions and songs. Use the chord progressions found in these books to start to improvise over the progressions. It will take time before your soloing sounds good, but be patient, it will happen. EXCERPT TWO Section 1: How To Tune Your Guitar Describes the basic mechanics of the guitar and names its different parts. Illustrates the names of each string and its correlating note value on a musical staff. Lists the procedure for putting the guitar in tune with itself and other instruments. Section 2: Chord Voicings and Chord Progressions Explains how to read chord diagrams and chord charts. Presents open chords and basic barre chord shapes. Complete list of Major, minor, and 7th chord fingerings for all 12 chromatic notes. Most importantly real chord progressions are included with strumming patterns so you know exactly how to make your chords sound great. Section 3: Commonly Used Scales Illustrations of all positions and fingerings for the most common scales of contemporary music:. An explanation of how these scales work over chords and keys. Section 4: Lead Patterns and Articulation Illustrations of lead pattern fingerings for each scale presented in the previous section. These lead patterns allow for both increased speed and more linear motion up and down the neck. The secrets of sounding good when you improvise are explored: Bending, sliding, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and vibrato are explained. Section 5: Applying Lead Patterns Gives a listing of which scales and their subsequent lead patterns may be applied to the chord progressions from Section 2. Section 6: Notes Found On The Guitar A FULL PAGE illustration of the guitar neck and the notes that correspond to each fret, including enharmonic spellings (a single note that may be referred to with two names, e.g. F# and Gb). More Resources at our Website As with all Muse Eek books, your book purchase is only the beginning of your learning experience. Links to our website which offers tuning notes, more chord progressions, mp3, midi, video files, and much more. Plus a member s area which contains many additional books and files to help you learn.Read More