25 Guitar Scale Hacks
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The other routes through the fretboard.
Most guitarists learn one or two scale systems, usually the five pentatonic boxes, CAGED or 3NPS, to get through the maze of the fretboard. It works, up to a point. The trouble is that once you've learned those routes, you stop seeing all the other ways through, and your solos start to sound like the patterns you learned them from.
25 Guitar Scale Hacks is about those other routes. It's a collection of 25 short lessons for intermediate to advancing players who want to move beyond rote patterns and predictable solos, and actually make music with the scales they already know. Work through it in order, or pick the hacks that interest you most.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
Use the warp zone, the shift on the B string, to make sense of every scale pattern on the neck
Recycle one small scale fragment into all seven modes
Play scales with "small hands" patterns, plus 2-note-per-string, 4+3 and 4-note-per-string patterns
Cut 3NPS and pentatonic scales down to just three patterns that cover the whole neck
Play top-down, starting scales from the higher strings, where solos actually happen
Get an instant exotic sound out of the minor pentatonic you already know
Use the Mixolydian mode as a framework for blues soloing
Get modes under your fingers in minutes by playing horizontally
Make "wrong" notes sound right with confidence, resolution and groove
Find melodies in a scale instead of running up and down it
Most guitarists learn one or two scale systems, usually the five pentatonic boxes, CAGED or 3NPS, to get through the maze of the fretboard. It works, up to a point. The trouble is that once you've learned those routes, you stop seeing all the other ways through, and your solos start to sound like the patterns you learned them from.
25 Guitar Scale Hacks is about those other routes. It's a collection of 25 short lessons for intermediate to advancing players who want to move beyond rote patterns and predictable solos, and actually make music with the scales they already know. Work through it in order, or pick the hacks that interest you most.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
Use the warp zone, the shift on the B string, to make sense of every scale pattern on the neck
Recycle one small scale fragment into all seven modes
Play scales with "small hands" patterns, plus 2-note-per-string, 4+3 and 4-note-per-string patterns
Cut 3NPS and pentatonic scales down to just three patterns that cover the whole neck
Play top-down, starting scales from the higher strings, where solos actually happen
Get an instant exotic sound out of the minor pentatonic you already know
Use the Mixolydian mode as a framework for blues soloing
Get modes under your fingers in minutes by playing horizontally
Make "wrong" notes sound right with confidence, resolution and groove
Find melodies in a scale instead of running up and down it
About this edition
The text is as it was, apart from a few small corrections. Every diagram has been redrawn so it's clear on the page and on screen, and every note is now labeled with its interval from the root, so you can see what you're playing as well as where.
If you're stuck in a rut, bored of your own soloing, or tired of hearing the box you're in, this book will show you the way out.
Format: PDF, 61 pages, 8 x 10 in.