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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Book Review: Incredible Scale Finder (Hal Leonard)

Book Title: Incredible Scale Finder
Author: Adam St. James
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0-634-02027-7
Website: www.halleonard.com
Pages: 104
Price: $5.95 (May change accordingly)
Accompaniment: NA

REVIEW

Scales are building blocks of music, be any type and they are the essential element to learn for every musician. Scales help musicians to comprehend how melodies are formed, how chords are built and how the explore more improvising solos.

This book covers almost 17 different types of scales & modes and every scale is described in multiple positions on the the guitar neck. Almost severn different patterns for each scale to practice on your guitar. Thus it would take around months to practice and improvise each and every scale on different location on the guitar neck. See, how comprehensive it is.

If you really want to master the art of playing scale this book can help you a lot. If it is not possible for you to practice all scales then you can use this book as a ready recknor for any problem you face to comprehend a scale on guitar. Few sample pages are here to have a glimpse of the book.

Front Cover


Table of Contents
 

Scales and Modes






Improvising and Soloing

Scale Diagrams

Back Cover






1 comment:

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