Guitar Clues, Operation Pentatonic: Tasty Licks, Tricks, and Techniques

Join renowned guitar master Greg Koch as he clues you in to a wide variety of fun and valuable pentatonic scale applications. Whether you're new to improvising or have been doing it for a while, this book will provide loads of delicious licks and tricks that you can use right away, from volume swells and chicken pickin' to intervallic and chordal ideas. Includes 65 demo and play-along tracks. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Rock, Country, Blues, and Funk styles.
Minor and major pentatonic scales.
Blues scales and beyond.
Slides, bends, and vibrato.
Pinch harmonics.
Whammy bar wigglin'.
Chkicken pickin'.
Open-string pull-offs.
Travis picking.
Volume swells.
Pedal steel effects.
Standard notation and tablature.
65 demo and play-along tracks.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Minor pentatonic scale
Slides
Bending
Vibrato
Bends with vibrato
Conga effect
Pinch harmonics
Scale manipulation
2nds... kind of
4ths... mostly
5ths... yes, 5ths
Whammy wigglin'
6ths and 7ths
Octaves
The Blues scale
Chicken pickin'
Open-string pull-offs
Travis picking
Major pentatonic scale
Major pentatonic scale with added b3rd
Volume swells
Pedal steel effect
Blues scale and major pentatonic extensions
Blues jam etiquette

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