Jazz Scales for Guitar, with play-along CD

This book will teach guitarists how to construct and play the scales and modes used in jazz improvisation. Through the study of these scales, students will expand their musical vocabulary for jazz improvisation. Scales are presented in standard notation, tab, linear diagrams showing the scales intervallic makeup, and fingering patterns. Recordings of the chord progressions and etudes are provided so the student can hear how these scales may be used in real life situations.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction

Major Scales

Major Scales Modes
-Aeolian Mode
-Dorian Mode
-Phrygian Mode
-Lydian Mode
-Mixolydian Mode
-Locrian Mode

Harmonic, Melodic and Jazz Melodic Minor Scales

Lydian Dominant Scales

Altered Scales

Bebop Scales
-Major Bebop Scales
-Dorian Bebop Scales
-Mixolydian Bebop Scales

Pentatonic Scales
-Major Pentatonic Scales
-Minor Pentatonic Scales

Blues Scales

Symmetrical Scales
-Diminished (Whole-Half) Scales
-Diminished (Half-Whole) Scales
-Whole-Tone Scales
-Chromatic Scales