Chords and Scales for Guitarists

by Mead, David

• ISBN13: 9781860744327
• ISBN10: 186074432X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Music Sales Amer

Summary

Here at last is a book that tackles these two vital areas in simple, no-nonsense terms. With over 400 diagrams and a comprehensive audio CD, bestselling guitar author David Mead teaches you how to construct chords and scales from the ground up, how to recognize important chord and scale families and how to organize your fretboard using the CAGED concept. With a chapter on improvisation providing vital tips on soloing over chord changes, this book is all you need to make your guitar solos sound more musical and develop all the instincts of a fully rounded musician.

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(1)
Introduction	12	(1)
Guide To Notation	13	(7)
Tablature	13	(3)
I Got Rhythm -- Or Rather, I Haven't	16	(1)
Dots	16	(1)
Chord Boxes	17	(1)
Fretboard Diagrams	18	(1)
Chord Charts	19	(1)
Fretboard Orienteering	20	(10)
Your First Few Landmarks	26	(4)
Learn To Barre	30	(4)
Barre It All	31	(1)
First Step	31	(1)
Second Step	32	(1)
Third Step	32	(1)
Barre Chords Versus Moveable Chords	33	(1)
Chords	34	(8)
What Are Chords?	34	(1)
Chords Up Close	35	(1)
So Where Do Chords Come From?	35	(1)
The Harmonised Major Scale	36	(3)
Guitar Pioneers And The Three-Chord Trick	39	(3)
Major And Minor	42	(18)
The Families Close Up	45	(6)
Odd Men Out	51	(3)
Mix And Match	54	(2)
Special Cases: The Sus4 Chord	56	(1)
To Infinity	57	(3)
The Dominant Family	60	(28)
Dominant Chord Construction	62	(4)
Non-Scale Tones -- The Altered 7ths	66	(1)
Diabolus In Musica	67	(2)
Sharp 5ths	69	(1)
Adding The Other Altered Tones	70	(2)
Altered 9ths	72	(1)
Altered 11ths	73	(1)
Altered 13ths	74	(2)
The Minor Family	76	(6)
Diminished And Augmented Chords	82	(4)
Augmented Chords	86	(2)
Chords In Context	88	(13)
Instrumental Ranges	88	(3)
Family Resemblances	91	(1)
On-Stage Amnesia	91	(1)
Inversions	92	(1)
Slash Chords	93	(1)
Chord Similes	93	(2)
Chord Substitution	95	(1)
Chord Structure Versus Arrangements	96	(3)
Tritone Substitution	99	(1)
Taking Things To Extremes	100	(1)
Chord Construction Summary	100	(1)
The Origin Of The Species	101	(3)
Harmonics	101	(1)
The Overtone Series	102	(2)
Scales	104	(70)
The Major Scale	104	(1)
Key Signatures	105	(4)
Back To The Major Scale	109	(5)
Pentatonic Scales	114	(3)
The Natural Minor	117	(3)
The Major Pentatonic	120	(2)
The Blues Scale	122	(5)
How To Find A Scale From A Melody	127	(1)
Deconstruction For Beginners	127	(2)
Assessing What We've Got	129	(1)
Scale Similarity	129	(3)
Practice Schedule	132	(1)
The Blues Scale Revisited	132	(2)
The Modes Of The Major Scale	134	(3)
The Modes In Context	137	(2)
Modal Fingerings	139	(10)
Melodic And Harmonic Minor Scales	149	(1)
The Melodic Minor	150	(1)
Minor Modes	151	(4)
The Harmonic Minor Modes	155	(4)
The Sensible Way To Look At Chord Construction	159	(3)
Music Maths	162	(1)
Scale Classification	163	(4)
Looney Tunes	167	(1)
Diminished And Augmented Scales	167	(3)
More Pentatonic Variations	170	(2)
More Seven-Note Variations	172	(2)
The CAGED Idea	174	(22)
The C Shape	174	(4)
The Maths	178	(4)
The G Shape	182	(4)
The E Shape	186	(2)
The D Shape	188	(3)
F -- The Unofficial Sixth Shape?	191	(1)
Pentatonic CAGED	192	(2)
Practice Routine	194	(1)
CAGED Supplement	195	(1)
Improvisation	196	(15)
Expression	196	(1)
Where Does It Come From?	197	(1)
Head Versus Heart	198	(1)
Music And Technique	198	(1)
Putting It All Together	199	(1)
Improvising Over Chord Changes	200	(3)
Melody	203	(1)
Fingerings	203	(1)
Arpeggios	203	(2)
Key Changes	205	(1)
Improvising Using Pentatonic Scales	206	(1)
Pentatonic Chord Changes	207	(2)
Superimposition	209	(1)
In Conclusion	210	(1)
Fingering Tips	211	(5)
Biography	216