SKU: MB.99607
ISBN 9780786660810. UPC: 796279076784. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. By Joe Negri; Compiled and edited by Tim Bedner.
The goal of this book is to provide a concept for guitarists that will help them go quickly to the core of the harmonies that must be dealt with in order to improvise over chord changes. Joe Negri shows how you can assimilate harmonies and quickly determine a common denominator that you instantly visualize on the fingerboard. From this `cell harmony you will be able to build or create single-note melodic lines. Joe Negri has taken the fundamentals of music theory and made them applicable and relevant to the improvising guitarist. One of this books secrets is the use of basic triadic shapes as an organizational tool to demystify improvisation. This keep it simple approach allows improvisers to hear and unveil melodic lines that are right under their fingers within simple triadic shapes. These studies are packed with the basic information the student needs in order to use the chord tones as melodic focal points. Written in notation and tablature.
SKU: SP.JT005
ISBN 9781890281199.
Scales and Arpeggios Complete for Guitar published by Santorella Publications contains all scales and arpeggios used in every style of music by the contemporary guitarist. The materials in this Howard Wallach best seller are presented in a systematic fashion including fingerings, which are both logical and muscularly efficient for the hand. Whether the guitarist reads music or not, it is necessary to memorize scale and arpeggio patterns, written in tablature, by forming a visual image of them on the fingerboard. The instructional CD will allow the student or professional to hear each example performed. It is not a guide to music theory, rather a practical manual to the complete mastery of all scales and arpeggios on the fingerboard for the contemporary guitarist. This is the book I wish I had twenty years ago, profess the countless teachers and professionals that have seen this book.