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QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar - Volume I
Learn to create exciting solos in a variety of contempory styles!
Scales are used to improvise, create melodies and riffs. With a broad knowledge of the essential scales that are used in contemporary music and a mastery of the guitar's fingerboard and fingering principles you're well on your way.
Master these fingerings and unlock your potential as a lead guitar player!
QUICKSTART - Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar is a concise, well organized book ideal for any guitar player beginning to explore "Lead Guitar". Unlike so many other guitar instruction books on the market, Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar keeps a sharp focus on the six critical scales, their fingerings and their related chords. All material is covered in every key.
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 | QuickStart Chord Progressions, Mixolydian Play-along TracksFour premium practice play-along tracks for mastering and exploring the Mixolydian scale. Suitable for any instrument. MLQS1CD60d: Published: May 6, 2012, 9:33 pm | Updated: May 6, 2012, 7:33 pm | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
| QuickStart Scale and Arpeggio Lesson SeriesQuickStart Scale and Arpeggio Fingerings are a highly organized, efficient system of scale and arpeggio fingerings. Each fingering pattern is shown with a fingerboard shape, TAB and standard music ..... QS01: Published: January 2, 2005, 12:00 pm | Updated: March 12, 2012, 8:30 pm | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
 | The Major ScaleThe Major Scale or Ionian scale is a diatonic scale, made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth which duplicates the first one octave higher. In solfege these notes correspond to the syllables "Do, ..... UL124: Published: January 2, 2005, 12:00 pm | Updated: March 12, 2012, 8:32 pm | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
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 | | QuickStart - Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar - Vol I Book and CDEach of the 24 tracks of this play-along CD are devoted to a scale covered in the QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar book. There are four background tracks for each scale featuring the chords of that scale. Exploring improvisation in a variety of contemporary styles. Suitable or guitar, bass, ukulele and any instrument capable of soloing. |  | ||
| QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar - Blues ScaleFREE DOWNLOAD - The Blues or Minor Pentatonic is one of six essential scales for ALL guitar players. One octave scale fingering solutions with the Blues scale chords are covered in all keys. Sample chord progressions for practice are included. Book includes four studio recorded backing tracks for exploring the Blues scales in the book. |  | |||
| | QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar - Volume ISix essential scales for Gutiar. Blues, Pentatonic, Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Ionian scales are covered in all keys with one octave scale fingerings starting on any finger. The QuickStart series of scale fingering books are available in a variety of tunings for ukulele, guitar and bass guitar. |  | ||
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QuickStart - Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar - Vol I Book and CD
Each of the 24 tracks of this play-along CD are devoted to a scale covered in the QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar book. There are four background tracks for each scale featuring the chords of that scale.
Exploring improvisation in a variety of contemporary styles.
Suitable or guitar, bass, ukulele and any instrument capable of soloing.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60321-012-6 Published: March 2002 Pages 32
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QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar - Blues Scale
FREE DOWNLOAD - The Blues or Minor Pentatonic is one of six essential scales for ALL guitar players.
One octave scale fingering solutions with the Blues scale chords are covered in all keys. Sample chord progressions for practice are included.
Book includes four studio recorded backing tracks for exploring the Blues scales in the book.
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QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar - Volume I
Six essential scales for Gutiar. Blues, Pentatonic, Dorian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Ionian scales are covered in all keys with one octave scale fingerings starting on any finger.
The QuickStart series of scale fingering books are available in a variety of tunings for ukulele, guitar and bass guitar.
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Ukulele- Reading Music Series - Primer
Reading music is not as hard as one might think. It may be new and unfamiliar but is not hard when you have a proper plan of attack.
Reading music on the ukulele is easier than reading music on guitar or piano. There are only four strings with a smaller range of possible notes.
Music in the key of C with all natural notes, no flats or sharps is pretty easy to play in open position on a ukulele. This would be the same as playing the white keys of a piano.
Standard music notation has been the Lingua Franco of musicians, both professionals and hobbyists for many centuries.
Reading standard music notation opens you up to vast world of published music.
Reading simple melodies in open position is the first step to reading music on the uke.
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