Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Volume Two: Scale Construction and application

Bruce E. Arnold

Mar 2001 · Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Book 2 · muse eek publishing

About this ebook

Have you ever wondered how the true masters of guitar can - at the drop of a hat - transform their sound from one mood to another - and mezmerize their audience?

What is the source of their amazing ability to touch the hearts and souls of total strangers?

How do they gain such hypnotic power over their listeners?

What they possess - which you can also - is a deep understanding of the CHOICES they have with music ... the different feelings and moods they can evoke depending upon their scale and chord combination choices. These are the colors on your musical palette, the tools to create great music.

Would you also like to understand, on a deep level, the 22 most important scales in music? And then have at your fingertips a rich variety of feelings you can use to weave your own rich tapestry of music?

Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Volume Two gives you a concise and easy to comprehend method for learning the 22 most important scales found in music. You ll be provided with worksheets where you finds the notes for each scale on a guitar fretboard diagram and on a music staff. Answers are given for all exercises so you can work at your own pace to master the material.

Would you like to:

* Understand 22 different scales from the ground up ...
* Instantly see all the important scales across and up and down the guitar fretboard ...
* Know common chord progressions that work for the 22 most important scales ...
* Understand which chords work with which scales...
* Have hands-on exercises that help engrain the theory behind each scale ...
If you answer is YES, then Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Volume Two will give you the roadmap to get there.
With only a few minutes a day, you will master the ability to:
* Pick up what scales others are playing on the guitar by sight more rapidly ...
* See all scales by sight on the guitar ...
* Understand music theory and be IN SYNC with your fellow musicians ...
* Understand scales and your musical choices from the ground up ...
* Make music theory a natural process as you see it on your guitar ...
* Build a solid foundation for great solos, comping and great composing ...
* See, understand and build countless chord combinations, from simple to complex, starting anywhere on your guitar fretboard ...
* Understand how the notes on the guitar fretboard relate to notes found on a music staff ...
* Understand key signatures ...
* Understand the nuts and bolts of how each scale is built ...

You will also have access to the Muse-eek.com member's area where you will find additional free videos and audios to help you learn and apply music theory.

You ll have access to additional materials that:

* Videos showing you how to play each scale on the guitar ...
* 22 Jam Tracks are included online to help you apply the scales to musical situations ...
* And much more ...
Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Volume Two is all you need to get ALL the music theory behind scales, memorize where they are on the guitar fretboard and start applying them to real music.

Get real hands-on application for the most important 22 different scales. This worksheet style book is unique and these types of exercises can only be found in this book. Stop wasting time and get music theory under your belt once and for all. With the answers being supplied in the back of the book you can master music theory without having a teacher.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this book in conjunction with 1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist. Basically this book gives you about 16 pages of theory information and then 100 pages of exercises. I was first put off by the book I thought it would be 100 pages of theory information. I contacted the author (yes you can actually contact the author with questions, how often does that happen) and he explained it like this: "If you were to take a music theory course in school you would find that they give you a certain amount of information and then a ton of exercises to engrain that information. Here is an example. If I teach you that a major chord is build with 4 half steps and then 3 half steps that's great but you need to know that in all keys. Therefore you need exercises to get this information memorized. Think of music theory like a language. You learn a new word but then you need to use that word in many contexts in order to know how to use it and to get it memorized." So I took the doctors advice and have been doing one page of exercises a week. I have to say it's not my favorite book but after even a few pages I noticed that I was understanding a lot more about music and how chords are put together. It is also helping me see the guitar neck in a deeper way. I would say this is an excellent book for a student that really wants to learn music. If you just want to strum a few chords and not have a clue about what you are doing then stay away.