Download or read book 25 Guitar Scale Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Unlock the Guitar. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to scales and improvising, the guitar fretboard is a maze, and this is both good and bad… Well, instead of bad, let’s say it’s ‘challenging’ because like any maze it’s easy to get lost, familiar routes can often lead to dead-ends, and it can be overwhelming to find your way out. On the other hand, we have countless routes (possibilities) to choose from, all of which provide different creative opportunities; what I’m basically saying is that by learning one or two scale systems to ‘get through the maze’, we stop seeing (or even avoid) the many other ways there are to navigate the fretboard. This is where 25 Guitar Scale Hacks comes in. This book is about exploring the fretboard using those other routes to create motion, fluidity and bring the music out of any static pattern. Here, we dispense with the standard patterns such as 3NPS scales or the CAGED system in order to explore the many other patterns, nuances and hacks the guitar fretboard has to offer. Who is this book for? This book is for the intermediate to advancing students who really want to make their playing stand out from the crowd, feel stuck in a rut, or want to move away from rote pattern playing and predictable-sounding solos. 25 Guitar Scale Hacks looks at improvisation based on the guitar fretboard; in other words, we’re putting the guitar and all its nuances first, rather than working from generic patterns that are traditionally taught in scale and arpeggio books. The concept of 25 Guitar Scale Hacks then is a collection of mini-lessons or hacks for a deeper exploration of scales and how to make music with them. Feel free to work through the book in the order it’s written or choose the hacks that interest you the most.

Download or read book Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2017-04-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3NPS (three-note-per-string) scales, as used by legions of guitarists but popularized mainly by Joe Satriani, are one of the most efficient ways to navigate the fretboard and get your scales down IF you follow the guidelines in this book. As the name suggests, a 3NPS scale is any scale that contains three notes on each string, and as you'll see in this eBook, this makes for a very consistent way to map out scales on the guitar fretboard. What we’ve done here is revamped the 3NPS scale system and turned it into an incredibly effective means to learn a wide variety of scales all over the fretboard by streamlining the number of patterns, as well as the picking system. This is not a scale theory book, and contains no pentatonic scales. This is a quick and dirty (and very effective) method for learning 3NPS scales all over the fretboard; something to work on in the woodshed. It will improve your picking technique and speed. It does not require a great amount of thinking as you only need to learn two picking patterns, which is really one in two directions, and only three scale patterns instead of the usual seven per scale.

Download or read book 50 Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist has just received an extensive update and now features more detailed explanations, plus new hacks, diagrams and insight. Thank you for your invaluable feedback!Guitar Hacks can be clever ways to do things on guitar, priceless nuggets of information, or new perspectives on vital concepts for learning and understanding guitar, out-of-the-box thinking and much more besides. These hacks are based on 20+ years of hindsight so that you can get to where you want to be with your playing quicker and more efficiently. whatever your current level, or provide an excellent reference for guitar teachers looking for lesson ideas that can be easily expanded upon. Here's exactly what you'll get an insight in the updated version of this bestselling eBook:1. How to Remember Chords in the Beginning2. How to Learn 3NPS Scales in order to Improvise3. How to Learn More Chords without Learning More Shapes4. Modes: What to do first5. How to Make Music from Scales6. How to Learn any Technique to Perfection7. How to Write Using the Modes8. Don't Be Scared Off by Long Chord Names9. How to Make Your Solos Sound Better Overnight10. Modes: The Thing That's Stopping You from Understanding Them11. How to Play Outside the Key and Sound Cool12. How to Play like Your Idols without Learning their Licks13. How to Get Better: The Four Levels of Awareness14. How to Write Great Stuff15. How to Get a Great Tone16. How to Write a Great Guitar Riff17. 3 Essential Ingredients for a Productive Practice Session18. How to Choose a Guitar Book19. How to Design an Effective Practice Routine20. How to Break Out of Scale Patterns21. When to Use Alternate and Economy Picking22. Find Your Path of Least Resistance23. How to Make the Most of Altered Tunings24. How Long Does It Take to Get Good?25. How to Make Your Own Songbook26. How to Start Improvising on Jazz Tunes27. Make Sure You Know What You're Learning28. The Absolute Fastest Way to Improve Your Guitar Playing29. Avoid the CAGED System... Or Hack it!30. Are You Really a Visual Learner?31. Learn How to Build a Solo32. How to Instantly Improve Your Blues Guitar Soloing33. How to Invent Your Own Guitar Chords34. How to Learn the Notes on the Neck without Dying of Boredom35. How to Hack Scale Patterns for the Melodic and Harmonic Minor Modes36. Blues Guitar: You're Trying Way Too Hard37. How to Hack a Guitar Solo and Make It Yours38. How to Use YouTube to Actually Learn Something39. Why How It Sounds is Always More Important than How It's Done40. Use Your Pinky Right from the Start41. How to Bend a String Properly42. Use Your Guitar's Volume Control43. The Heavy Gauge Strings Fatter Tone Myth44. The One Thing You Should Fatten Up45. Throw Away Your Metronome46. Songwriting: Don't Try to Reinvent the Wheel47. The Quick and Dirty Way to Learn Arpeggios48. The Best Kind of Warm-up Exercises49. Work on One Thing50. How to Learn Music TheoryPutting this eBook together was enjoyable, cathartic and insightful experience. I hope you find it as enjoyable as I did.

Download or read book Woodshedder s Guide to Guitar Scales written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Woodshedder’s Guide to Guitar Scales came about after a request from a student. Obsessed with scales, she wanted a practice regime that allowed to her to learn a considerable number of guitar scales all over the fretboard using the most efficient and least time-consuming method I could come up with. To accomplish this, I suggested using just three patterns per scale, all of which are derived from three master patterns. In essence, we bypassed traditional (and outdated) scale systems that have you learning anything from five to seven or more patterns per scale (as this is both time-consuming and unnecessary) and grouped scales in a way that makes them far easier to digest, woodshed, and have the results show up in your playing relatively quickly. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a shortcut, it’s simply a very efficient method if you’re willing to spend hours in the woodshed. In this guide we dispense with traditional concepts to give you the most efficient and effective way to not only learn a ton of scales, but to achieve levels of technique and precision that will serve you for years to come.

Download or read book 50 More Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the fantastic response to the first book in this series, '50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist', it gives me immense pleasure to bring you this second installment; 50 More Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist. My hope is to again provide you with timely insight into all aspects of learning and playing guitar. These hacks are things I've learned from years of playing that should and will be passed on to those seeking insight, out-of-the-box thinking, and the deepening of their knowledge of the guitar whatever their current level may be. The information herein takes the form of mini-lessons, anecdotes, wisdom and knowledge, divine inspiration and friendly advice. It is my desire to help you on your journey to being the best guitarist you can possibly be. Here's what you'll get insight into in this book:1. How to Always Land on the Right Notes in a Blues 2. Are You Really Improvising? 3. The Easiest Way to Come Up with Exotic Sounding Stuff 4. Why Bass Players Can Teach You Modes 5. Don't Panic When Soloing Live: The Theory of Relativity Has Got Your Back 6. Secrets of Great Technique: Economy of Movement 7. Why You Should Sing Along to Your Solos 8. Why Learning Stuff 'All Over the Neck' is a Little Misleading 9. How to Do Ear Training the Right Way 610. Why You Need to Practice Playing Through the 12th Fret. 11. Chords: Your Comfort Comes First 12. Four Ways to Master Barre Chords 13. How to Get Famous Playing Guitar 14. Why You Don't Sound Like Satch... Yet. 15. What to Play in a Guitar Shop 16. Avoid Doing This and You'll Be a Great Guitarist 17. What is the Finger Roll? 18. The Tasteful Guitar Solo Checklist 19. How I Stumbled Across Absolute Pitch 20. Play as Fast as You Can Think 21. The Difference between Soloing on an Electric and an Acoustic Guitar 22. Pentatonic Springboards or... Ways to Play Over Dominant Chords without Woodshedding 23. The Most Useful Scale (apart from the minor pentatonic) 24. Budget Outside Sounds that Require No Thinking 25. Two More Ways to Fatten Up Your Tone 26. How to Be Melodic 27. The 3NPS Problem You Never Saw Coming 28. How to Change Chords Smoothly 29. What Separates Guthrie Govan from the Rest 30. How to Learn Technique Visually 31. When to Use the Harmonic Minor Scale in a Blues 32. Get into a 3-piece 33. The Problem with Shapes 34. Things to Practice While Watching TV 35. There's No Right Way to Play Guitar 36. How to Write Your First Guitar Riffs 37. How to Invent New Techniques and Sounds 38. How to Start Improvising by Ear 39. Learn about the Music Business 40. How to Get Rid of Sloppiness in Your Playing 41. How to Write Modal Riffs 42. There Are Other Blues Open Positions 43. How to Deal with Mistakes On-stage 44. How Not to Learn a Tune 45. How to Learn Solos by Ear... Or your Brain is a Slow-down Machine 46. How Not to Become a Frustrated Musician 47. How to Improve Your Hand Coordination 48. How to Start Writing Music on Guitar 49. How to Craft Long-term Success 50. Play with Passion.

Download or read book No Theory Guitar Soloing written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2018-11-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was watching a YouTube video a while back where Lee Anderton (of Anderton’s fame) gets a guitar lesson from Ariel Posen. Ariel tries his best to teach him a few things in a very thorough and well-meaning way, but about half-way through Lee says something along the lines of, ‘Just teach me the quick and dirty way to do things, I’m a middle-aged man who doesn’t have the time (or the patience) to practice scales for 8 hours a day’, which is both totally valid and completely doable on guitar as it’s one of the few instruments that lends itself well to a wide range of methodologies, be they theory-based or the other extreme. This book was also inspired by many students of a variety of ages who came to me saying they just wanted to play and not be bogged down by theory and scales and whatnot. They weren’t looking for shortcuts, they just genuinely wanted to solo and sound good without having to learn theory in order to do it. Admittedly, I was discouraged at first but I put myself in their shoes and came up with this method to get to the good stuff faster, and sound good. I won’t deal with pentatonic scales here as you’re probably already well-versed in those and are looking to be able to solo over simple and common chord progressions or add more variety to your improvisations. If you’re looking for a system to learn pentatonic scales (and modes), which is also theory-lite, check out another of my books: Beyond Pentatonics. All the music theory terms you’ll find in this book are for labeling purposes only and will help you recognize these concepts in songs or pieces you already know; they’ll also help you find the information on the fretboard when you need it instead of fumbling around. What’s more, due to the simplicity of this approach, you’ll be able to reduce your thinking to a minimum and concentrate on making a musical contribution to whatever situation you find yourself in and making jamming/playing out a far more enjoyable experience. I love this approach and often teach it to people who don’t want to practice 10 hours a day, are not interested in theory or knowing the whys and wherefores of everything. They just want a straightforward, “if you learn this and play it here, it’ll sound good”, method so that they can express themselves in a jam session, solo with more than just a pentatonic scale, or play out on the weekends. If you have even half an hour a day to play/practice guitar, you can make a world of progress with your soloing by using this method.

Download or read book 50 Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advancing Guitarist faces many challenges on the instrument, yet it is one of the most exciting periods in a player's development. This eBook features hacks, mini-lessons, insights, tricks and tips to push you past your new-found comfort zone and make real progress on the instrument. You will reach many plateaus as you progress on guitar, and these are fantastic opportunities to do something different, and to learn something new while deepening the knowledge you've already acquired. This eBook provides solutions to many of the issues faced by guitarists on the intermediate plateau, those stuck in a rut, or those simply wishing to break into advanced territory on the instrument. I hope to be a facilitator on this journey, and help you get to where you want to be with your guitar playing. Here's what we'll be getting into in this 50 Guitar Hacks eBook:1. The Secret to Fast Playing that Everyone Overlooks2. How to Move Beyond Pentatonic Scales3. Do You Need a Mentor Rather than a Teacher?4. How to Get into Melodic Soloing5. How to Use the Other Four Minor Pentatonic Boxes6. Why Your Solos Still Sound like Scales and How to Turn It Around7. What's Your Specialty?8. When to Learn the Notes on the Neck9. How to Get the Gig10. How to Learn New Scales without Learning New Patterns11. How to Balance Your Pickups for a Sharper Sound12. Write This Down Before Every Practice Session13. How to Get Free Gear14. Buy Tons of Picks15. The 'Hendrix' Chord and When to Use It16. How to 'Johnny B. Goode' Any Scale17. Scale Fragments: Practice This to Increase Your Speed18. Repetition Is Only Half the Story19. Split the Fretboard20. Zone in to Improve Your Phrasing21. Take Advantage of Your Own Hindsight22. How to Spice Up Your Chord/Rhythm Playing23. How to Memorize New Material Faster24. The Hearing Lag25. Beyond the 'Hendrix' Chord26. The Reason You Find Chord Tone Soloing Hard27. The Real Meaning of 'Less is More'28. Stop Learning Guitar Solos29. Sweep Picking Made Easy 30. How to Play the Minor Pentatonic Scale Over Almost Anything 31. 4 Neglected Pentatonic Scales32. Are You Using Your Best Picking Technique?33. What Do I Use This for?34. How to Know What to Learn Next35. How to Make the Most of Backing Tracks36. How to Tap into an Infinite Supply of Riffs, Licks and Ideas37. Instant Jazz/Fusion Soloing with 9-Note Scales38. How to Take the Tedium Out of Learning Arpeggios39. Improve Your Phrasing with the Pivot Technique40. The Law of Overcompensation and Fretting Hand Strength41. The Best Books for Learning to Sight Read42. How to Find the Right Gear for You43. If You Use Tablature, You Must Do This44. The Dreaded, 'Now Practice This in All 12 Keys...'45. Is It Time to Forget Scales?46. More Than Repertoire47. Make Time for Noodling48. A Healthy Obsession You Should Have49. How to Play Over Changes without Getting Frustrated50. Are There Any Skeletons in Your Musical Closet?

Download or read book 50 More Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the fantastic response to the first book in this series, ’50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man’s Guitarist’, it gives me immense pleasure to bring you this second installment; 50 More Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man’s Guitarist. My hope is to again provide you with timely insight into all aspects of learning and playing guitar. These hacks are things I’ve learned from years of playing that should and will be passed on to those seeking insight, out-of-the-box thinking, and the deepening of their knowledge of the guitar whatever their current level may be. The information herein takes the form of mini-lessons, anecdotes, wisdom and knowledge, divine inspiration and friendly advice. It is my desire to help you on your journey to being the best guitarist you can possibly be.

Download or read book 50 Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist has just received an extensive update and now features more detailed explanations, plus new hacks, diagrams and insight. Guitar Hacks can be clever ways to do things on guitar, priceless nuggets of information, or new perspectives on vital concepts for learning and understanding guitar, out-of-the-box thinking and much more besides. These hacks are based on 20+ years of hindsight so that you can get to where you want to be with your playing quicker and more efficiently. whatever your current level, or provide an excellent reference for guitar teachers looking for lesson ideas that can be easily expanded upon.

Download or read book Guitar Hacks written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very first scale most guitarists learn when they begin to explore the world of improvisation is often the Minor Pentatonic Scale, usually it’s A Minor or E Minor form. While this scale has been the crux of much of rock and blues music for the best part of a century, in the modern era of guitar playing it deserves a more thorough exploration through new pentatonic concepts, ideas and insight. Over 10 in-depth lessons, this book will deepen your understanding of pentatonic scales while opening your eyes to a myriad of ways in which they can be used and exploited to build up an arsenal of improvisational tools based on these five-note scales. We’ll also cover the difficult transition from pentatonics to modes through a new method that allows you to retain your pentatonic prowess by intertwining it with the modes instead of abandoning pentatonic scales in favor of other more cumbersome scale systems. In truth, most guitarists have barely scratched the surface when it comes to pentatonic scales, believing the major and minor pentatonic scales to be the end of the story when in fact, it’s just the beginning. So, if you know those five minor/major pentatonic boxes, and want to see how much farther this can go, this book is for you.

Download or read book Melodic Soloing in 10 Days written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever seen those guitarists that sound like they know exactly what they’re doing when they’re improvising? They just seem to hit all the right notes while their playing sounds crisp and melodic, as if they’d planned it all out beforehand, or were born with a God-given sense of melody. I’d always wondered how on earth they were able to come up with such melodic and flowing lines, thinking that they must simply be gifted, or have done some serious woodshedding. Then, during one unforgettable class at music college the door was opened to a method for playing and thinking as melodically and as effortlessly as they did, and this is what I want to share with you in this eBook.

Download or read book Blues Soloing for Guitar Volume 1 Blues Basics written by James Shipway and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blues Soloing For Guitar, Volume 1: Blues Basics

Download or read book How to Play Like Allan Holdsworth written by Graham Tippett and published by Unlock the Guitar. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since my first guitar teacher introduced me to the music of Allan Holdsworth in the late 90s, it has been an ongoing apprenticeship. I became fascinated, not only with his music, but with his approach to music itself, and the way he thinks about chords, scales and improvisation. Allan’s REH video was a blessing for me as I was able to glean enough insight into his playing to understand the way the great man thinks, and more importantly to begin to apply those concepts to my own playing. I struggled with music theory and orthodox approaches, so when Allan’s beautifully simple way of thinking about chords and scales clicked for me, I knew I had found something that finally made sense. I must admit, I couldn’t play you a single Allan Holdsworth lick, and I wouldn’t want to as the thought of dissecting his music in that way was always unappealing to me. What I wanted to do was get inside his head, grasp his way of thinking about music, and find out exactly how he was able to come up with such intricate yet outrageous lines and compositions. And that is precisely what this book is about. Allan’s playing looks incredibly complicated, and then some, to the innocent bystander, but the approach behind it is incredibly simple and easy to grasp. It’s so straightforward in fact that most players who have attempted to describe what he does completely miss the point. Once you do understand his approach, however, you’ll have a new appreciation for how far he’s taken it, and how far it can go. This book is not for the faint-hearted, but you shouldn’t be put off by thinking that you’ll be getting to grips with a lot of tricky concepts, because you won’t; Allan’s way of thinking is almost childlike in its simplicity, and when you glimpse it I can assure you that you'll be intrigued.

Download or read book Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts written by JENS. LARSEN and published by WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn modern jazz guitar and theory with virtuoso Jens Larsen

Download or read book The Art of Scale Weaving written by Juan Antonio Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Scale Weaving" has but one purpose; connection. It is through connection that we broaden our spectrum of understanding of the language of music through our instrument... the guitar. This book looks to achieve such connection by utilizing a new method known as Scale Weaving, which unifies different concepts such as triads, pentatonic scales and heptatonic scales. It is through connection that we can better understand the underlying relationships within these concepts.

Download or read book Hack Music Theory Part 1 written by Ray Harmony and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory is a six-letter dirty word to most musicians, but hey, musicians love dirty words, right? And just like all the other dirty words, theory is easy to learn and fun to use! After studying 'popular' and 'classical' music theory, Ray Harmony created a unique approach that he uses to compose his songs, which feature multi-platinum Grammy winners Serj Tankian (System of a Down), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), and many more. Ray Harmony is an award-winning music lecturer and multi-instrumentalist, who is now sharing his top-secret music theory and songwriting hacks through this book series. Drawing on his two decades of teaching experience combined with his minimalist methods of explaining, Ray breaks down music theory into its simplest form via a series of simple hacks, deep insights, and bad jokes. Tuck in at HackMusicTheory.com"e;The most brilliant, fast, easy, and fun music theory book I've ever seen!"e; -DEREK SIVERS, CD Baby founder, TED speaker, musician, author of Anything You Want"e;This is the kind of book I wish I had when I first started out."e; -IHSAHN, Emperor"e;Trust Ray, and in no time you'll have a watertight music theory skillset you once thought impossible to obtain."e; -PAT LUNDY, Modestep, ex-Funeral for a Friend"e;Ray manages to make learning music theory fascinating, digestible, and damn right cool!"e; -JOE COPCUTT, AxeWound, Zoax"e;If you have been put off music theory in the past, then this is the book to inspire and empower you."e; -VICTORIA WILLIAMSON, PhD, Vice Chancellor's Fellow Researcher and Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield, UK, author of You Are the Music"e;Ray has a totally unique approach of hacking music theory, which gives you the essentials in a fraction of the time."e; -VESPERS, Warp Academy founder, music producer

Download or read book Hacking the CAGED System written by Graham Tippett and published by Graham Tippett. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hacking the CAGED System - Book 2 picks up where Book 1 left off as we go deeper into scales, chords, arpeggios and harmony to expand our range of harmonic expression on the guitar, as well as providing you with the tools you need to put that advanced harmonic expression into action in your own playing. In Book 2 we expand the diatonic chord range into 6s, sus chords, 9th chords, put the finishing touches to our knowledge of the major scale, and explore the possibilities of the melodic minor scale along with its chord, arpeggio and modal system. Book 2 also includes 8 of the funkiest full-band backing tracks* you're ever likely to hear in a guitar book to help you get to grips with melodic minor scale and its modes! Who is this Book for? Book 2 in the series is suitable for self-study or with a guitar teacher, and is aimed at anyone who's been working with the material from Hacking the CAGED System - Book 1 and wishes to build on the solid foundation they've created in structuring chords, arpeggios, scales and modes on the fretboard by adding more types of chords to their repertoire, improving their picking technique, gaining a complete picture of the major scale, and exploring the melodic minor scale and its modes. *Book contains the link to download the backing tracks.