Matt Smith's Chop Shop for Guitar
Creative Tools and Techniques for Guitarists of All Styles
By Matt Smith
Guitar Book & Online Video/Audio
Item: 00-43049
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Renowned studio musician, performer, recording artist, and clinician Matt Smith opens his bag of tricks and tells all in Chop Shop for Guitar. Matt demystifies topics such as chord progressions, "cool notes" in solos, harp scales, harmonics, improvisation, alternate tunings, and much more. His unique, creative approach to composition, soloing, and mastering the fretboard will inspire and motivate you to reach new levels of musicianship and self-confidence in your playing. Providing all the tools you need to improve your playing, Chop Shop for Guitar is a must-have for all guitarists. The companion video is hosted by Matt Smith and includes lessons and demonstrations of the examples in the book. Audio recordings of the examples in the book are also included.
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Contents
| Title | |
| About the Author | |
| Introduction | |
| Chapter 1-Theory Made Easy | |
| How Music Works | |
| The Major Scale | |
| Major Scales and Keys | |
| Key Signatures | |
| Natural Minor Scales | |
| Intervals | |
| The Number System | |
| Interval Inversion | |
| Chords | |
| Seventh (7) Chords | |
| Chord Extensions | |
| Dominant Chords | |
| Chord Scales-Diatonic Harmony | |
| Chapter 2-Musicianship 101 | |
| Charts | |
| Chapter 3-Mastering the Fretboard | |
| Full-Fretboard Minor Pentatonic Scales | |
| Full-Fretboard Major Pentatonic Scales | |
| Integrating Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales | |
| Modes of the Major Scale | |
| Double Stops | |
| Chapter 4-Rhythms and Grooves | |
| Major Keys and Extensions | |
| Minor Keys and Extensions | |
| Some Chords You Should Know | |
| Rhythm Tricks | |
| Progressive Progressions | |
| Moving One Note in a Chord | |
| Funky Rhythm Fills | |
| Borrowing Triads from Another Key: Minor Grooves | |
| Blues and Funk Rhythm Fills | |
| Chapter 5-Improvisation | |
| The Nature of Art and Improvisation | |
| Improvisation-Phrasing | |
| How to Play over Non-Diatonic Chord Progressions | |
| The Chord-Tone Approach | |
| Combining Chord-Tone Approaches | |
| Altered Chords and Scales | |
| Commonly Used Altered Dominant Chords | |
| Improvising with Altered Scales over Altered Chords | |
| Chapter 6-The Secret of Everything | |
| The Secret | |
| Writing Out the Chords | |
| Notes in a Row | |
| Combining the Lines | |
| Improvising Using the Coolest Notes in a Progression | |
| Chapter 7-Altered Tunings | |
| Open Tunings | |
| D Tuning (Vestapol) | |
| Fingerstyle-Travis Picking | |
| D Tuning-Full Neck | |
| Five for the Price of One! | |
| Shape Shifting | |
| The Secret Country Blues Diagram | |
| Using the Secret Country Blues Diagram to Create Phrases | |
| DADGAD Tuning | |
| Celtic DADGAD | |
| Indian DADGAD | |
| DADGAD Double Stops | |
| Other Tunings | |
| Chapter 8-Slide Guitar Techniques | |
| Slide Rules | |
| Slide Chords in Standard Tuning | |
| Building Licks Off of Major Slide Chords | |
| Building Licks Off of Minor Slide Chords | |
| Implying Chords with a Slide-Chord Superimposition | |
| Slide and Altered Tunings: D or E Tuning | |
| Slide and Altered Tunings: G or A Tuning | |
| Slide in Other Tunings: D6 or E6 Tuning | |
| Slide in Other Tunings: D Minor or E Minor Tuning | |
| Hawaiian Slide Secrets | |
| Chapter 9-Harp Scales and Harmonics | |
| Harp Scales | |
| Creative Guitar Harmonics | |
| How to Grow |
Additional Information
| Author: | Matt Smith |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & Online Video/Audio |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Item Number: | 00-43049 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1760-9 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1760-8 |
| UPC: | 038081492100 |
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