Break into the Melodic Minor Scale
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Melodic minor has a reputation as an advanced scale, which is the main reason most guitarists never get round to it. It isn't one. It's the major scale with a flattened third — one note moved — and if you already know your major scale patterns, you already know most of these.
What makes it worth the trouble is what it does over chords you're already soloing on. There are four situations it solves, and this book gives you all four up front rather than burying them in theory: over a minor chord with a major seventh, over an altered dominant, over a dominant that wants a sharp eleven, and over a half-diminished. The second one is why most players learn this scale at all, and it's one sentence long.
Inside you'll find the patterns for all twelve melodic minor scales with their triads, seventh chords and modes, laid out across the whole neck with fret numbers and interval labels rather than note names, so they transpose the moment you move them. There's a section on getting the sound into your ears before you spend a month on the shapes, and a reference table of what sits on each degree.
It's free, and it's the fretboard half of the job. If you want the theory in depth — the chords, the arpeggios, the modes and why they behave the way they do — that's Hacking the CAGED System (Book 2), which uses these same patterns.
If the major scale side needs shoring up first, start with Hacking the CAGED System (Book 1) or Major Scale Modes Designed for the Guitar.
What makes it worth the trouble is what it does over chords you're already soloing on. There are four situations it solves, and this book gives you all four up front rather than burying them in theory: over a minor chord with a major seventh, over an altered dominant, over a dominant that wants a sharp eleven, and over a half-diminished. The second one is why most players learn this scale at all, and it's one sentence long.
Inside you'll find the patterns for all twelve melodic minor scales with their triads, seventh chords and modes, laid out across the whole neck with fret numbers and interval labels rather than note names, so they transpose the moment you move them. There's a section on getting the sound into your ears before you spend a month on the shapes, and a reference table of what sits on each degree.
It's free, and it's the fretboard half of the job. If you want the theory in depth — the chords, the arpeggios, the modes and why they behave the way they do — that's Hacking the CAGED System (Book 2), which uses these same patterns.
If the major scale side needs shoring up first, start with Hacking the CAGED System (Book 1) or Major Scale Modes Designed for the Guitar.