Product Overview
Learn all you need to know about guitar chords, scales, techniques, arpeggios, and basic music theory and how to use them in a musical context.
Music theory professor and guitar instructor Damon Ferrante guides you through step-by-step lessons and streaming videos that will teach you how to use these concepts to greatly improve your guitar playing.
This new edition has over 400 lessons, guitar licks, streaming videos, exercises, and scales-over chords and chord-theory concepts.
You will also memorize the notes on the fretboard!
The equivalent of 3-5 years of guitar lessons, the lessons are designed to improve your guitar technique, musicality, creativity, understanding of music theory, and give your playing and songwriting more power, color and expressiveness, whether you play Rock, Metal, Blues, Country, Pop, Jazz, or Classical.
No Music reading required!
Used by thousands of professional guitarists, students and teachers, this book and streaming video course will take your guitar playing to a whole new level!
The book and videos cover the following materials:
* Alternate Picking Technique
* Legato Technique
* Arpeggio Technique
* Music Theory
* Intervals
* Warm-up Exercises
* Technique Building Exercises
* Guitar Licks
* Chord Theory
* String Skipping
* Notes of the Guitar Neck
* Jam Tracks
* Developing Good Practice Habits
* Major Chords
* Minor Chords
* Dominant Seventh Chords
* Minor Seventh Chords
* Major Seventh Chords
* Diminished Chords
* Augmented Chords
* 9th Chords
* 11th Chords
* 13th Chords
* Blues Scales and Modes
* Major Scales and Modes
* Natural Minor Scales
* Harmonic Minor Scales and Modes
* Melodic Minor Scales
* Pentatonic Major Scales
* Whole-Tone Scales
* Exotic Scales
* Octatonic Scales
* Major Arpeggios and Inversions
* Minor Arpeggios and Inversions
* Diminished Arpeggios
* Augmented Arpeggios
* Major Seventh Arpeggios
* Dominant Seventh Arpeggios
* Minor Seventh Arpeggios
* Diminished Seventh Arpeggios
* Augmented Seventh Arpeggios
* Minor Seventh Flat-Five Arpeggios
* Dominant 9th Arpeggios
* Minor 9th Arpeggios
* Dominant 11th Arpeggios
* Minor 11th Arpeggios
* Dominant 13th Arpeggios
* Minor 13th Arpeggios
* One-Octave Arpeggios
* Two-Octave Arpeggios
* Three-Octave Arpeggios
Designed to fit easily in a guitar case, gig bag or backpack, take this handbook with you to the gig, jam session, studio, rehearsal or performance.
