Improvising with 5 note Arpeggios

Improvising with 5 note Arpeggios will explore usage of 5 note arpeggios as pentatonic scales for jazz improvisation (reusing similar positions and ideas).
You will discover patterns along the fretboard and modal approaches.
If you are a pentatonic fanatic you'll find in this book the right tool to expand your scale and sound vocabulary.

Analized arpeggios:

• maj9 (1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
• 6/9 (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)
• maj7/#11 (1, 3, #4, 5, 7)
• 6/#11 (1, 3, #4, 5, 6)
• maj7/13 (1, 3, 5, 6, 7)
• min9 (1, 2, b3, 5, b7)
• min6(9) (1, 2, b3, 5, 6)
• min7(6) (1, b3, 5, 6, b7)
• minmaj9 (1, 2, b3, 5, 7)
• minmaj7(6) (1, b3, 5, 6, 7)
• 9 (1, 2, 3, 5, b7)
• sus9 (1, 2, 4, 5, b7)
• sus(b9) (1, b2, 4, 5, b7)
• 9/b5 (1, 2, 3, b5, b7)
• 9/#5 (1, 2, 3, #5, b7)
• 7/b9 (1, b2, 3, 5, b7)
• 7/b5/b9 (1, b2, 3, b5, b7)
• 7/#5/b9 (1, b2, 3, #5, b7)
• 7/#9 (1, #2, 3, 5, b7)
• 7/b5/#9 (1, #2, 3, b5, b7)
• 7/#5/#9 (1, #2, 3, #5, b7)
• 7/b13 (1, 3, 5, b6, b7)
• alt5 (1, 3, b5, #5, b7)
• minb5(9) (1, 2, b3, b5, b7)
• min7b5(11) (1, b3, 4, b5, b7)
• min7b5(b13) (1, b3, b5, b6, b7)
• dimmaj7 (1, b3, b5, bb7, 7)

256 pages

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Jazz Guitar Pentatonic Improvisation

Jazz Guitar Pentatonic Improvisation will explore pentatonic scales in Jazz improvisation.
Starting form major and minor pentatonics, then moving to altered pentatonics and finally with modal pentatonics you will get a lot of powerful tools to improve your improvisation skills.
For any scale you will be provided with basic and advanced patterns in any neck positions, a scale transposition palette for scale superimposition over chords with different root.
This book is a must to discover the real power hidden inside pentatonic scales.

145 pages

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Exotic Scales for Guitar

Exotic Scales for Guitar presents positions and patterns for more than 50 exotic scales: 6 strings patterns, root-to-root octave, high string patterns, 3 notes per string and so on...
List of presented scales:

• Hindu (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7)
• Hungarian Minor (1, 2, b3, #4, 5, b6, 7)
• Hungarian Major (1, #2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7)
• Oriental (1, b2, 3, 4, b5, 6, b7)
• Ionian Aug #2 (1, #2, 3, 4, #5, 6, 7)
• Ionian bb3 bb7 (1, b2, bb3, 4, b5, b6, bb7)
• Double Harmonic (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, 7)
• Lydian #6 #2 (1, #2, 3, #4, 5, #6, 7)
• Altered #5 b7 (1, b2, b3, 3, 5, b6, bb7)
• Altered b6 b7 (1, b2, b3, 3, b5, bb6, bb7)
• Locrian #2 #7 (1, 2, b3, 4, b5, b6, 7)
• Altered #6 (1, b2, b3, 3, b5, 6, b7)
• Melodic Augmented (1, 2, b3, 4, #5, 6, 7)
• Dorian b2 #4 (1, b2, b3, #4, 5, 6, b7)
• Lydian Augmented #3 (1, 2, #3, #4, #5, 6, 7)
• Neapolitan Major (1, b2, b3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Neapolitan Minor (1, b2, b3, 4, 5, b6, 7)
• Lydian #6 (1, 2, 3, #4, 5, #6, 7)
• Dominant Augmented (1, 2, 3, 4, #5, 6, b7)
• Hungarian Gypsy (1, 2, b3, #4, 5, b6, b7)
• Locrian #3 (1, b2, 3, 4, b5, b6, b7)
• Ionian #2 (1, #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Altered b3 b7 (1, b2, bb3, 3, b5, b6, bb7)
• Lydian Augmented #6 (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, #6, 7)
• Lydian Dominant Augmented (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, 6, b7)
• Lydian Minor (1, 2, 3, #4, 5, b6, b7)
• Major Locrian (1, 2, 3, 4, b5, b6, b7)
• Altered #2 (1, 2, b3, 3, b5, b6, b7)
• Altered b3 (1, b2, bb3, 3, b5, b6, b7)
• Enigmatic (1, b2, 3, #4, #5, #6, 7)
• Enigmatic Minor (1, b2, b3, #4, 5, #6, 7)
• Composite II (1, b2, 3, #4, 5, b6, 7)
• Ionian b5 (1, 2, 3, 4, b5, 6, 7)
• Dorian b4 (1, 2, b3, b4, 5, 6, b7)
• Phrygian b3 (1, b2, bb3, 4, 5, b6, b7)
• Lydian b2 (1, b2, 3, #4, 5, 6, 7)
• Superlydian Augmented (1, #2, 4, #4, #5, #6, 7)
• Aeolian bb7 (1, 2, b3, 4, 5, b6, bb7)
• Locrian bb6 (1, b2, b3, 4, b5, bb6, b7)
• Locrian #2 (1, b2, b3, 4, b5, b6, 7)
• Ionian #6 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, #6, 7)
• Dorian Augmented (1, 2, b3, 4, #5, 6, b7)
• Phrygian #4 (1, b2, b3, #4, 5, b6, b7)
• Lydian #3 (1, 2, #3, #4, 5, 6, 7)
• Dominant #2 (1, #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7)
• Altered Alt (1, b2, bb3, 3, b5, bb6, bb7)
• Persian (1, b2, 3, 4, b5, b6, 7)
• Kumoi (1, 2, b3, 5, 6)
• Hirojoshi (1, 2, b3, 5, b6)
• Whole Tone (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, #6)
• Augmented (1, #2, 3, 5, b6, 7)
• Pelog (1, b2, b3, 3, 5, b6)
• Dominant Sus (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, b7)

For each scale are also presented related chords for improvisation analysis.

421 pages

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Modal Scales for Guitar

Modal Scales for Guitar presents modal scales derived from Major, Melodic minor, Harmonic minor and Harmonic major scale:

• Ionian
• Dorian
• Phrygian
• Lydian
• Mixolydian
• Aeolian
• Locrian
• Melodic Minor
• Dorian b2
• Lydian Augmented
• Lydian Dominant
• Mixolydian b6
• Locrian #2
• SuperLocrian
• Harmonic Minor
• Locrian #6
• Ionian Augmented
• Dorian #4
• Mixolydian b2b6
• Lydian #2
• SuperLocrian b7
• Harmonic Major
• Locrian #2#6
• Phrygian b4
• Jazz Minor#4
• Mixolydian b2
• Lydian Augmented #2
• Locrian b7

For all modes are reported related chords and all available patterns on the neck.

254 pages

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Guitar Scales for Beginners (Free Edition)

Guitar Scales for Beginners introduces many different positions for major and minor scales and major and minor pentatonics. If you want to start to study scale on guitar, this is the books you're looking for.

This book is freely available at Lulu.com.

Have fun!

Basic Scales for Guitar

Basic Scales for Guitar presents all positions and patterns for basic scales:

• major scale and its modes, 
• natural minor, 
• and major, minor and dominant pentatonic scales

For each scale are presented all chords you can improvise on and one shot neck view.
This is a great tools for improvisation in blues, rock and jazz.

96 pages

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Guitar Chord Encyclopedia for Jazz Standards Pt2

Do you want to comp like a professional jazz player? Do you need a book that can show you the right voicing for each chord and the right way to use it? Then this book is for you. Guitar Chord Encyclopedia for Jazz Standards Pt2 presents chord positions widely used in jazz standards. For each voicing are presented different types of usages in standard situation as II-V-I progressions and similar, related arpeggios and scales for improvisation. This is the definitive guide to be able to play comping, chord melody and voice leading in any jazz situation. This book presents diatonic and altered dominant chords.

727 pages

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Diatonic Voice Leading Techniques

How many times did you find yourself trying to play amazing chord progression moving smoothly one chord after another as professional jazz guitar players do? How many times did you like to be able to reharmonize a progression extending or changing chords to get a more personal sound? If you're interested in learning amazing diatonic chord progression, extending you chord vocabulary including advanced jazz chords then this book is for you. Diatonic Voice Leading Techniques is organized to allows you to concentrate only in playing. No specific knowledge is needed to use this material: only you and your guitar. You'll be introduced in complex diatonic progression by examples and you'll acquire the ability to move smoothly from one chord to another. Using this book you'll be naturally get skill on advanced harmony techniques as extended and altered chords, complex progressions, comping, chord melody, chordal improvisation. This book will enable you to gradually start playing like professional jazz players do.

137 pages

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Guitar Chord Encyclopedia for Jazz Standards Pt1

Do you want to comp like a professional jazz player? Do you need a book that can show you the right voicing for each chord and the right way to use it? Then this book is for you. Guitar Chord Encyclopedia for Jazz Standards Pt1 is the first part of a 2 volumes collection intended for jazz guitar player interested in studying standards. It presents chord positions widely: for each voicing are presented different types of usages in standard situation as II-V-I progressions and similar, related arpeggios and scales for improvisation. This is the definitive guide to be able to play comping, chord melody and voice leading in any jazz situation. This book presents tonic major, minor and diminished chords.

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Advanced Arpeggios for Guitar

Advanced Arpeggios for Guitar is a complete reference with hundred different positions for extended and altered arpeggios (9ths, 11ths and 13ths arpeggios and alterations) for improvisation. You'll find: 6 string arpeggios, root-started and not-root-started arpeggio, specific frame sized and string pattern. You can learn picking techniques (alternate, sweep and economy picking), arpeggio's sequence and arpeggio superimposition. This book is a must for anyone who want to discover arpeggio's world for professional rock, metal, jazz improvisation.

206 pages

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Basic Arpeggios

Arpeggios are a really powerful tools for improvisation in different types of music from rock to metal, to jazz.
Basic Arpeggios is a complete reference with more than 400 different positions for the most common arpeggio (triads and 7th chords). You'll find: 6 string arpeggios, root-started and not-root-started arpeggio, one octave arpeggio, specific frame sized and string pattern. You can learn picking techniques (alternate, sweep and economy picking), arpeggio's sequence and arpeggio superimposition.
This book is a must for anyone who want to discover arpeggio's world for professional improvisation.

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