Understanding How to Build Guitar Chords and Arpeggios Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

The first part of this edition teaches a very specific portion of music theory with the goal of providing a thorough foundation for building chords and arpeggios. The second part reveals the unique fingerboard patterns arising from the nature of the guitars six-string tuning and applies these essential patterns to teaching every aspect of building chords and arpeggios for the guitar. Clear illustrations are abundant throughout this text, making its wealth of information easier to learn and apply. This book is accessible to those who have never learned to read music notation, presenting ideas that anyone can understand and utilize. Self-tests are featured at the end of each chapter facilitating complete and thorough comprehension. Even though this text accelerates rapidly through intermediate and advanced levels, it will also benefit the beginner with no previous musical experience.

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Instrument:
Guitar
Genres:
Jazz
Publishers:
Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music
ISBN:
9781609742324
EAN:
160974232X
Format:
Collection / Songbook
Item types:
Digital
Instructionals:
Technique Books Music Theory
Level:
Beginning Intermediate Advanced
Usages:
School and Community
Size:
8.75 x 11.75 inches

Guitar (jazz and contemporary) - Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced - Digital Download

SKU: M0.98287EB

Composed by Michael Policastro. Guitar, Guitar: Jazz and Adult Contemporary, Theory and Reference - Guitar, Adult Contemporary, Technique. Style. Book. Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music #98287EB. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music (M0.98287EB).

ISBN 9781609742324. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

The first part of this edition teaches a very specific portion of music theory with the goal of providing a thorough foundation for building chords and arpeggios. The second part reveals the unique fingerboard patterns arising from the nature of the guitars six-string tuning and applies these essential patterns to teaching every aspect of building chords and arpeggios for the guitar. Clear illustrations are abundant throughout this text, making its wealth of information easier to learn and apply. This book is accessible to those who have never learned to read music notation, presenting ideas that anyone can understand and utilize. Self-tests are featured at the end of each chapter facilitating complete and thorough comprehension. Even though this text accelerates rapidly through intermediate and advanced levels, it will also benefit the beginner with no previous musical experience.

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  • Preface

  • Theory

  • The Musical Alphabet

  • The Major Scale and Intervals

  • Intervals

  • Interval Inversions

  • Major Scales

  • Chord Construction

  • Chord Basics

  • Chord Inversions

  • 7th Chords

  • 9th, 11th, and 13th Chords

  • Suspended Chords

  • Chords with Added Tones

  • Altered Chords

  • The Guitar

  • Essential Fingerboard Patterns

  • Unison Patterns

  • Octave Patterns

  • Horizontal Transposition

  • Vertical Transposition

  • Octave Regions

  • Intervallic Patterns

  • Chord Arpeggios

  • Guitar Chords

  • Chord Voicing

  • String Groupings and Chord Families

  • Chord Plurality

  • Tritone Chord Relationships

  • Chord Synonyms

  • Advanced Chord Construction Concepts

  • Poly-chords

  • Quartal Chords

  • Secundal Chords

  • Pandiatonicism

  • Compound Chords

  • Chords Derived from Scales

  • Test Yourself

  • Answers

  • APPENDIX 1

  • Guitar Fingerboard Diagrams and Basic Terminology

  • APPENDIX 2

  • A Method for Tuning the Guitar

  • APPENDIX 3

  • Major scale patterns

  • Appendix 4

  • Some Basic Arpeggio Patterns

  • Appendix 5

  • Some Basic Chord Forms

  • Appendix 6

  • Some Chord Maps

  • Appendix 7

  • Blank Diagrams