Guitar Scales and Arpeggios as variants of 3 shapes of the major scale

Guitar Scales and Arpeggios isn't just a book of scales, it will teach you how scales and arpeggios can be created on the guitar. This will provide you with a deeper understanding of the logic behind them, making them more meaningful and therefore easier to learn in the long term. For intermediate level and above.

- The Major Scale

It all starts with the major scale, the basis of music. All other scales and arpeggios can be defined in comparison to this scale. The book reflects this in practical terms by categorising the major scale into three different fundamental shapes, which once understood, can be used as templates to figure out other guitar scales and arpeggios. This can lead to being able to work out and learn guitar scales and arpeggios yourself.

- The CAGED guitar system

This system can help to understand the larger CAGED guitar scale shapes in terms of their single octave components. For example, the five CAGED shapes for the major (or minor) pentatonic scales, each containing twelve notes, can be learned as only two shapes of five notes, which are joined end to end to give us the five full CAGED shapes.

- What Else?

• Diagrams: 600+ fretboard diagrams, plus music theory charts, other diagrams and 20+ photographic examples.
• Key Signatures: Understand how  scale construction relates to key signatures.
• 3-Note Per String Guitar Scales: Understand  various 3-note per string scales  as the same combination of single octave component types.
• Chord Harmony: Explore how basic major and minor chords are formed from  scales and learn how to create harmonies using triads and 7th chords.
• Intervals: When grouped in the context of the scales they are intended for, this helps to  learn them. Intervals are also shown individually.
• Guitar Modes and Scales: Learn the modes and how they are created on the fretboard.
• Guitar Arpeggios: Major, minor, major 7th, dominant 7th, minor 7th, diminished 7th, augmented, major 7th #5, dominant 7th #5, dominant 7th b5 and minor(major)7th.
• Scales for Guitar: Major, minor, pentatonic scales, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (minor), Locrian, blues scale, blue grass scale, dominant pentatonic, harmonic minor, Phrygian dominant, melodic minor and Lydian dominant.
• Symmetrical Guitar Scales: Wholetone, diminished (whole half) and diminished (half whole).
• Questions and Answers:  Test your skills with a question for each scale and arpeggio type, with the answer in guitar tablature at the back of the book.

Enhance your playing and deepen your understanding of the guitar with Guitar Scales and Arpeggios.