Guitar Thesaurus Vol.III: Harmonization


Book Description

"Guitar Thesaurus Vol.III: Harmonization," as the title implies, provides you the harmonization of every scale used in popular and jazz music in the most easy-to-apply way! Utilizing the successful shapes presented in the previous guides, Vol.III reaches a whole new level by demonstrating all the chords originated from every diatonic degree of the Major, Harmonic & Melodic Minor Families. With more than 5 different chord types, including triads, 7ths and all the extended chords, Vol.III is the tool you 've been looking for all these years. Choose the scale, find the page, and create your personal style!




Contemporary Guitar Harmony: For Advanced Guitarists Only


Book Description

Advanced Level. The motivation for this book was to develop my The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales and delve into my findings about music education. This book is also intended to answer guitar players demands for my harmony lessons (this textbook price is more reasonable than a one-time private lesson fee). This book offers guitarists an effective and novel approach to contemporary guitar harmony. I have presented all possible (forty-three) four-note groupings (i.e. subsets), which may be used for tonal or meta-tonal harmonic progressions currently acceptable on the contemporary music scene. The principles in this book are not of passing theoretical interest, but an effective guide to musical life and how guitar harmony can be expanded to the fullest extent. Knowing possibilities in four-note groups and voicings systems will begin to unlock possibilities for music in the 21st century. Further possibilities live in each one of our guitars, waiting to be discovered. I would like to dedicate this book to all guitarists from the four corners of the earth, who wish to expand their expressive palette in Contemporary Guitar Harmony.




Jazz Pedagogy


Book Description

DVD provides over three hours of audio and video demonstrations of rehearsal techniques and teaching methods for jazz improvisation, improving the rhythm section, and Latin jazz styles.




Color Harmony Compendium in Music


Book Description

Advanced Level. Many people have asked me to apply the concept of The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales to harmonic principles. The purpose of this book is *not* to teach the traditional theory of harmony, but to free you from the limitations of traditional theory. This innovative guidebook can be used as a practical reference for precise and positive design with color harmony.




The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales


Book Description

Surprisingly, few studies have been made that address the possibilities of musical scales. This book is, to the best of my knowledge, the first of its kind to establish and examine a complete system of all conceivable scales. My intention is that this book be used as a reference tool for all musicians, as it provides a complete dictionary of all possible scale configurations.




Jazz Guitar Voicings -


Book Description

Have you ever wondered how guitarists like Joe Pass, Jim Hall and Wes Montgomery find such full, luscious voicings for their chord melody playing? Well, much of that sound is based on the "Drop 2" principle of chord voicings. In this book, veteran guitarist Randy Vincent explains exactly how you can get that same sound too. Endorsed by Julian Lage, John Stowell, Larry Koonse, etc.




Combinatorial Harmony: Concepts and Techniques for Composing and Improvising


Book Description

This book/audio set is a unique and complete system for exploring endless musical possibilities in any style. This book is a must for the contemporary musician. Despite being a guitar-friendly book with a complete mapping of the fretboard, the book is also useful for improvisers, arrangers, composers, theorists and students interested in the combinatorial approach to music. About 1,000different voicings in all positions and drops are presented, including complete 3- note and 4-note voicings with specially designed guitar diagrams. The book also includes all triad-pairs (hexatonics) and their combinations in melodic exercises. The book presents brand new combinatorial voice-leading, for 21st centurychorale writing and contrapuntal exploring for any instrument or arrangement. In312 pages, the book provides a vast store of material for compositional andimprovisational use




Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns


Book Description

Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. Think about this book as a melodic reference manual or plot wheel. Looking for new material to add to your playing instruction, improvisations, or composition? This book has more than you'll ever be able to use. Many serious musicians have a copy of this lying around somewhere.




Chord-Scale Theory and Linear Harmony for Guitar


Book Description

Chord-Scale Theory and Linear Harmony for Guitar: Creative Tools for Improvisation and Composition in Contemporary Music is a guide to music theory as it relates to the guitar fretboard. It covers topics such as intervals, scales and modes, chords and voicings, progressions, and melodic devices and how they are commonly used in contemporary Western music. It thoroughly explains basic harmony as well as the complex harmonies used in jazz. It contains examples in standard notation, guitar TAB, fretboard diagrams, and charts. Great for intermediate and advanced guitarists looking to expand their horizons and musical creativity.




All Fourths: A Method For EADGCF Tuning On Guitar


Book Description

New Guitar Method utilizing all fourths tuning (E, A, D, G, C, F - low to high). If I was starting to learn to play the guitar today, and somebody gave me a guitar today, I'd tune it in straight fourths without a doubt. Just like the six-string bass, 'cause to find that B string is a pain, and it's unnecessary, 'cause you play ... you know ... there's only a few of us that go around bashing out power chords anymore, so you don't need that anyway, so if I was to learn again, it's just that it's been so many years trying to beat the B string that I can't go and un-beat it. --Allan Holdsworth