Soloing over Changes
The Ultimate Guide to Improvising with Scales over Chords on the Guitar
By Jody Fisher
Guitar Book & Online Audio
Item: 00-44739
$17.99
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If you want to be able to play a great guitar solo over any chord progression, you have come to the right place. Master guitarist, teacher, and best-selling author Jody Fisher unlocks the secrets to how scales work with chords in this comprehensive book.
Conveniently organized into two sections, the first part of the book breaks down scale and chord theory in a simple, step-by-step manner that is easy to understand. The second part is a handy, comprehensive chord and scale finder that allows you to cross-reference scales with chords and vice versa. Access to accompanying online demonstration and play-along tracks is also included. A must-have for any guitarist, Soloing over Changes is the ultimate scale and chord resource.
"A great resource for every aspiring guitar improvisor"---George Benson
"Jody Fisher has somehow covered it all . . . for any guitarist desiring to take their improvising to the next level."---Carl Verheyen
Conveniently organized into two sections, the first part of the book breaks down scale and chord theory in a simple, step-by-step manner that is easy to understand. The second part is a handy, comprehensive chord and scale finder that allows you to cross-reference scales with chords and vice versa. Access to accompanying online demonstration and play-along tracks is also included. A must-have for any guitarist, Soloing over Changes is the ultimate scale and chord resource.
"A great resource for every aspiring guitar improvisor"---George Benson
"Jody Fisher has somehow covered it all . . . for any guitarist desiring to take their improvising to the next level."---Carl Verheyen
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Contents
| Title | |
| About the Author | |
| Introduction | |
| Book Organization | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| PART 1: Learning and Using Scales | |
| Chapter 1 | |
| What Is a Scale? | |
| The Chromatic Scale | |
| Major-Scale Fundamentals | |
| Major-Scale Fingerings | |
| Chapter 2 How to Learn Scales | |
| Practicing Scales | |
| Chapter 3 How to Use Scales for Improvisation | |
| Chapter 4 Targeting Chord Tones in Scales | |
| Chapter 5 Developing Melodic Ideas from Scales | |
| Chromaticism | |
| Chapter 6 | |
| Now What? | |
| The Natural Minor Scale | |
| The Harmonic Minor Scale | |
| The Melodic Minor Scale | |
| Other Important Scales for Altered Chords | |
| Very Important Information | |
| Content Details for Part 2 | |
| PART 2: Scales Over Chords | |
| Major Chords (Unaltered) | |
| Major Chords (Altered) | |
| Dominant Chords (Unaltered) | |
| Dominant Chords (Altered) | |
| Augmented Triads | |
| Minor Chords | |
| Diminished Chords | |
| Quartal-3 Chords | |
| CHORDS | |
| Major Chords (Unaltered) | |
| Major, 6, Maj7, Maj9, and Maj13 Chords | |
| Major Chords (Altered) | |
| Maj7#5 Chords | |
| Maj7b5, Maj7#11, and Maj9#11 Chords | |
| Maj7#5#11 Chords | |
| Dominant Chords (Unaltered) | |
| 7, 9, 11, 13, and 7sus4 Chords | |
| Dominant Chords (Altered) | |
| 7b5 Chords | |
| 7#5 and 9#5 Chords | |
| 7b9, 13b9, and 7#9 Chords | |
| 7b5b9, 7b5#9, 13#9#11, and 7#5#9 Chords | |
| 7#5b9 Chords | |
| 9#11 and 13#11 Chords | |
| Augmented Triads | |
| Minor Chords | |
| Minor Triads | |
| min6 Chords | |
| min7 Chords | |
| min9 Chords | |
| min11 Chords | |
| min13 Chords | |
| min(Maj7) Chords | |
| Diminished Chords | |
| dim, dim7, and min7b5 (half-diminished) Chords | |
| Quartal-3 Chords | |
| SCALES | |
| Aeolian (Natural Minor) | |
| Blues Scale | |
| Diminished, Whole-Half | |
| Dorian | |
| Dorian b2 | |
| Harmonic Minor | |
| Harmonic Minor, 7th Mode | |
| Ionian #5 | |
| Locrian | |
| Locrian #2 | |
| Locrian #6 | |
| Lydian | |
| Lydian #2 | |
| Lydian Augmented | |
| Lydian b3b7 | |
| Lydian b7 | |
| Major | |
| Major Pentatonic | |
| Major Pentatonic (from the 9th) | |
| Melodic Minor | |
| Minor Pentatonic | |
| Mixolydian | |
| Mixolydian b6 | |
| Natural Minor (Aeolian) | |
| Phrygian | |
| Phrygian Dominant | |
| Super Locrian | |
| Whole Tone |
Additional Information
| Author: | Jody Fisher |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & Online Audio |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Item Number: | 00-44739 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-2764-7 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-2764-5 |
| UPC: | 038081508511 |
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