Hal Leonard Publications
Essential Scales and Modes for Guitar
Series: Guitar Educational  - TAB

The Ultimate-Guitar Scale Decoder is aimed at guitarists who are mystified by scales and modes. It displays only the most essential scales in practical and useful fingerings, along with an easy-to-understand primer on how to create scales. Each of the scales is accompanied by a musical example on the included CD.


Featured topics include:

• reading tab
• the chromatic scale
• half steps and whole steps
• constructing the major scale
• playing in position
• modes
• parent-scale approach
• the parallel method
• step construction
• constructing minor scales
• constructing pentatonic scales
• constructing blues scales

and much more.