The Essentials: Chord Charts, Scales and Lead Patterns for Guitar - Softcover

Bruce Arnold

9781890944940: The Essentials: Chord Charts, Scales and Lead Patterns for Guitar

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ISBN 10: 1890944947 ISBN 13: 9781890944940

Publisher: Muse Eek Pub Co, 2002

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Are you ready to start your journey exploring the guitar and music but don t know where to start?

Would you like to start out going down the RIGHT path from day one,while keeping it simple and easy to understand?

Do you want what you re doing on the guitar to start sounding like MUSIC from the get-go even if not on an expert level?

If you answered YES, then The Essentials by Bruce Arnold really is your best first stop to get all the basic ingredients you need.

   The Essentials will get playing as quickly as possible, while still getting a firm grounding in you musicianship. It will show you:

� A clear and logical presentation of what you need to learn ...
� Only the information you need to get playing right away - without overloading you with too much background ...
� Tell you which materials you don't need to study at this point ...

Videos and audio are available on-line to demonstrate everything presented. The Essentials gives you a well organized system and quickly gets you going with these crucial ingredients:

� How to tune your guitar ...
. How to care for your guitar
� Commonly used Chords ...
� Common Strumming Patterns ...
� Commonly used Scales ...
� Common Lead Patterns for Soloing ...

Plus you ll learn how to play notes so they sound great -- better known as Articulation ... Chord Progressions to use ... and you'll get MP3s to practice them along with.

Most beginning guitar books cover a little basic material but leave you with nowhere to go if you have any questions. So if you discover you have a problem with technique, fingerings, strumming, or rhythm you have to begin your search again for maybe another book that might help.

Not so with The Essentials ...

Within The Essentials you will find links to other books about every subject covered.  The Essentials also gives you immediate access to our online Member's Area where many PDFs are available free of charge to help you dig deeper into any subject.

There is a world of knowledge to absorb when you are first learning the guitar, but The Essentials gives you just the right combination of common sense and good information to get you through the first crucial steps, such as:

� The most commonly played chords on the guitar --in all keys ...
� The most commonly used scales and lead patterns for major scale, blues, major and minor pentatonic ...
� Chord progressions that show you how to correctly play songs in folk, country, rock, blues and other popular styles ...

Plus strumming patterns to get you applying your newly learned chords, and specific information on strumming technique.

The Essentials includes:

� Loads of easy to understand diagrams of chords, scales and lead patterns ...
� Internet links to get additional information on subjects such as music theory, tuning notes, additional chord progressions, and string changing guides  ...
� Free access to countless files in our member's area that will help you develop your guitar playing by providing the best information --and the least amount of confusion!

Are you ready to get started?

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About the Author

Guitarist Bruce Arnold has developed an extensive reputation as a composer educator and guitar virtuoso. He has created a unique signature sound that stems from his combination of jazz techniques and 20th Century compositional methods. He has played with such diverse musicians as Stuart Hamm, Peter Erskine, Joe Pass, Joe Lovano, Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Arnold is also deeply devoted to music education and had written more than 60 music instruction. He currently teaches at Princeton University. Mr. Arnold has taught at some of the most prestigious music schools in America, including the New England Conservatory of Music, Dartmouth College, Berklee College of Music, New School University, City College of New York and NYU.

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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. All you need to take advantage of the "member's area" is to be an owner of a Muse Eek book. Some of the resources found in this section are: Music Theory guides, How to restring your guitar, Diatonic Chord explanation, Additional Chord Progressions, How to Read Music Guide, Extensive help with learning rhythm and many, many more!

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To truly understand the music theory behind the scales shown here you will need a lot more background information. The importance of learning music theory can t be overly stressed. *

The C major scale is a 7 note scale containing the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B and is played over a C chord or a progression of chords that are in the key of C major. Every key has a group of chords that are commonly associated with it. These chords are called the "Diatonic Chords of the Key." (You will find an article explaining Diatonic Chords in the member s area of the muse-eek website.) In the key of C major these diatonic chords are: C, D-, E-, F, G, A- B�. (- sign refers to minor and � refers to diminished). Therefore you will find many chord progressions containing the aforementioned chords where you will use a C major scale to improvise. In order to know whether a specific chord progression is in the key of C you will need to develop your aural recognition skills. It is important that you understand the key(s) that a song or chord progression is functioning in from a theoretical and aural perspective. I suggest you get "Ear Training One Note Complete" if you want to develop your aural skills (See page 14).

The C major pentatonic scale is a 5 note scale and contains the notes C, D, E, G, A. and has the same characteristics as the C major scale. Therefore any place that you can use a C major scale you can use a C major pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale is one of the most used scales in contemporary music. It is also interesting to note that the notes of a C major pentatonic scale are the same as an A minor pentatonic scale. The notes in an A minor pentatonic are A, C, D, E, G. Because the notes are the same in the A minor Pentatonic as in a C major pentatonic scale, the A minor pentatonic is said to be one of the "modes" of the C pentatonic and visa versa.

The C minor pentatonic scale...........

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