Usually, large books do not lie flat or stay open on the music rack. Guitar lovers manual is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. Learning the dominant pentatonic scale gives you a smooth transition between what you already know and the next step in your blues guitar soloing progress. Pdf total guitar the ultimate scale book guilherme. For each scale, you can learn a number of different shapes and patterns, depending on the zone of the fretboard youre working on. V i jazz guitar lines with tab, standard notation, analysis, scale charts and audio files. Over 700 scale patterns for every style of music schonbrun, marc on. As always, commit the pattern to memory because we will be using the pentatonic scale, the blues scale, and the mixolydian mode in the next. It has all the essentials you need and packed with cool features. The blues scale is basically the minor pentatonic scale, with one added note, the.
Link to pdf file with all 5 positions of the guitar minor blues scale. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. The audio example gives you some ideas on how you can play that variation. This scale book also contains outside jazz scales, exotic scales, peters own crossstringing scales, and easy to. Use the g major pentatonic in folk, country and rock in the key of g when you dont want the blues sound. Several typical pentatonic blues licks will be used as a starting point to develop your knowledge of the pentatonic scale. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. The ebook contains the most important scales for beginners, such as major and minor, but shows also more advanced. Each scale is illustrated in more than one fretboard position, giving you a suitable scale pattern. The book comes as a pdf file, which can be read on your screen and printed suitable for printing on us letter and a4 sized paper.
The lack of the major scales 4th and 7th scale tones makes the pentatonic sound wonderfully generic. Garage band garageband is multitrack recording software allowing you to record your guitar playing to create songs. The major scale, for example, works well over major chords. Major scale 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 a 4 4 4 4 4 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 major scale sae b b b c b 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 5 1 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 6. Scales are groups of notes ordered by pitch or frequency, either going up in pitch or down. Each scale has a unique sound, or mood, which fit over certain chords. To see the blues chord progressions with their relevant blues scales in. Welcome to lesson 3 of the pentatonic scale, pentatonic blues licks. The cool, swing, chicken picken, jump blues sound that this scale produces makes a solid addition to the repertoire of. Blues guitar chords comprehensive blues chord chart. Riffs based on the blues scale in the last examples we added chords and variations, but lets look at some other possibilities in which you can start to build your own blues riffs.
Free guitar tabs printable, downloadable pdf guitar tabs. If you are wishing to order the pdfmp3 files please go to the correct page as this product is for the pdf file only. It is the most extended scale in poprockjazz because of its versatility, because it always sounds good, always sounds like blues. Pdf total guitar the ultimate scale book guilherme mauricio. Guitar toolkit extremely user friendly, this app is the swiss army knife of guitar apps. The blues scale is derived from the minor pentatonic scale.
But this book can also be used on its own as a stand alone reference guide to scale diagrams, lead guitar soloing strategies, modal playing, learning to play over chord changes, and much more. The lydian mode also works well over major chords, but has a brighter sound. But this book can also be used on its own as a stand alone reference guide to scale diagrams, lead guitar soloing strategies, learning to play over chord changes, and more. After browsing our selection of free guitar tab pdf, view our video lessons to help you get started learning your favorite songs from start to finish. In order to cycle through as many areas of scale practice as possible and not get bored it is important to have a plan. To learn guitar scales is a great way of exploring the fretboard of the guitar and finding the patterns that will help you with improvising solos and also it will increase the flexibility and strength of your fingers the more exercises you do.
All of our guitar tab pdf files are printable and downloadable so you can enjoy them for years to come. Music notation is a great system, but it isnt the most modern, or best system for learning modern pop, rock, blues, country and heavy metal guitar songs. Playing and improvising acoustic blues doug young acoustic blues workshop notes q 96 our goal is to be able to play a simple, but effective solo blues guitar piece, hopefully with some improvisation. Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. To see the blues chord progressions with their relevant blues scales in every key please see the the chart on the next page. Guitar scales guitar scales regardless what instrument you play, learning to play scales is a rite of passage. This page includes notationtabs and scale diagrams for each position.
This is the foundation to becoming a learned musician, rather than merely a recreational player. The parallel lines of the frets and string work in. The trick is to find interesting and effective exercises to make your fingers remember those scales one recommendation i can make here is william lea. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master.
Free guitar scales pdf 84 scale and arpeggios chart. The best free guitar scales reference charts and tabs to learn how to play commonly used guitar scales. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. The guitar scales chart book features all of the widelyused guitar scales pentatonic, blues, etc. In this lesson you will be learning some ways to use the pentatonic scale in a solo.
How to play blues rhythm guitar like the blues masters. Learn to incorporate the blues notes into the pentatonic scale. Major and minor blues scales guitar tab and essential licks. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. Your plan should cover several days and allow for varied work on each. The melodic minor scale is closely related to the major scale with its natural 6 and 7. Link to page dedicated to guitar lydian mode scale. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all keys. A blues scale once again it is important that if you are going to learn to improvise with this scale that you learn how it sounds. Free printable guitar scales 14 most commonly used scales.
Please find all of the guitar scale fingering charts for all of the types of scales covered in this guide. Blues turnaround chord phrases the turnaround occurs most commonly in the last 2 bars of a blues progression. The blues scale is very similar to the minor pentatonic scale, but with an additional lowered 5th note lowered by half a stepsemitone, or blues note. After the pentatonic minor scale and major scale, the blues scale is probably the most widelyused scale in guitar improvisation. Were going to look at the shape and learn where the root notes are on the fretboard. Ive included a great downloadable pdf with free blues guitar scales. Gordon is he feels, one of his most important books because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used. This is an overly simplified summary of how scales are used when soloing, but it is a good starting point. Of the minor chord and of the major chord means they are notes of the major or minor chord. It contains the sections chord, scale and arpeggio. You can get more diagrams in the tuning of your choice by using my interactive web app here. Some people use arpeggios to outline the chords of the progression they are playing over, some like using the dominant pentatonic scale. Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum. This scale produces an interesting flavor youll hear not only in kings music but also in the licks and riffs of jimmy page, stevie ray vaughan, billy gibbons, and eric clapton, among others.
To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to. If you already know about the minor blues scale and would just like to know how to play it in five positions as well as the open position of e, read on. Use the e minor pentatonic scale when playing 12 bar blues in either e major or e minor, it works equally well over both. Learning licks on the guitar is like learning phrases in a foreign language.
The blues scale, perhaps the most used in modern music to play lines, whether melodies or riffs, allows us to approach the blues sound without having to play within a blues structure. That one is built around the e minor pentatonic scale a staple scale in blues music. Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for. Microsoft word majorminor blues scalesboxes guitar.
Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory, scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. The cool, swing, chicken picken, jump blues sound that this scale produces makes a solid addition to the repertoire of any modern guitarist. E d g b e a pentaton c minor scale box 1 glitarsik. This book of written lessons is an excellent tool and reference manual to develop and enhance your guitar skills. This book contains 40 dominant jazz guitar lines with tabs, audio files. It contains scale diagrams with notation and tablature for each scale and tips on how and when to use each scale. Bookmarks simplify navigation and finding pages in adobe. Blues notes are scale tones that are adjusted slightly from their normal major scale. Guitar lovers manual chord, arpeggio and scale pdf with. The scale itself is the same as the minor pentatonic with the addition of one extra note. Welcome to the sixth video of the blues guitar quickstart series.
I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. Isbn 18973111 this electronic edition, isbn 18973111, may be copied and distributed without prior written permission of the publisher provided that this edition is not altered in any way, shape, or form, and that it is distributed for free. The e minor blues scale contains the following notes. This pdf contains the diagrams for all the major and minor pentatonic scales in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Pentatonic scales are the basis for most blues and rock guitar solos. Link to guitar pro file of tab for the guitar minor blues scale.
For a complete lesson on the minor blues scale, read this lesson. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. Though it takes you longer to use this scale in your solos, the payoff is well worth it. Despite its name, the blues scale is not only used in blues music. It is the only difference between the blues scale and the minor pentatonic scale. We can and should learn scales, but we can turn these scales. Scales are presented as fretboard diagrams, as well as in notation and tab.
Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated sound. Jazz guitar method pdf 40 mixolydian jazz guitar lines. Link to guitar pro file of tab for the guitar lydian mode scale. Heres a free guitar scales pdf ebook 22 pages with plenty of scales and arpeggios patterns. In classical music the melodic minor scale is played going up and the natural minor scale is played going down. The guitar scales chart book is an instant download, so you can start learning and playing new scales within minutes.