Product Overview
An instructional guide to learning guitar soloing techniques full of large intervallic jumps, octave sliding, stacked fifths, and much more.
- Guitar Instruction Contents:
Introduction
Section one: double pentatonic scales and shapes
A) Basic non-shifting scale exercises
Double pentatonic scale fingerings
Wide-interval shapes
Basic sequencing exercises
Non-shifting string skipping exercises
Stacked fifth exercises
B) String skipping shapes and position shifting
String skipping shapes
String skipping shape sets
Shift patterns (for horizontal position shifting)
Motion exercises (using the shift patterns)
Non-shifting exercises (using shape sets)
C) Melodic studies
Six studies, presented in one scale fingering that combines all of the above
How to apply each melodic study to a different scale fingering
Section two: octave sliding
A) Identifying octave shapes within pentatonics
B) Octave sliding exercises
23 exercises showing all of the possible ways to slide octaves within one pentatonic scale fingering area
How to apply octave scale sliding exercises to other scale fingerings
C) Melodic studies (fifteen studies)
Section three: pentatonic "stacked fifths"
A) The concept
B) Wide interval shapes (in 5 fingerings)
C) Shape connection exercises
Non-shifting (positional)
Shifting (whole neck)
Combining shifting and non-shifting motion
Section four: wide interval diatonic arpeggios
A) Diatonic arpeggios in 5 fingerings
B) Wide interval arpeggio sets
(Due to the large volume of exercises in this book, only selected examples are represented on the CD. It is in the student's best interest to study all of the guitar exercises for any given subject, including those that are not represented on the CD.)
Breaking up the predictability
Exercises playing sets 2-5 in all 12 keys
C) Licks using arpeggios
Section five: soloing etudes
Appendix: "guidelines for using this book"
Tablature symbols key
Product Details
Mel Bay Rock Curriculum: Fluid Soloing Book 4 - Chord-Lead Soloing For Guitar (Book/CD)
Rock Curriculum: Fluid Soloing, Book 4: String Skipping and Wide Interval Soloing for Guitar is a book with CD authored by Tim Quinn that is a much-needed guitarist's guide to mastering wide interval soloing and includes 212 melodic studies and patterns for guitar.
This comprehensive collection of guitar soloing lessons is designed for intermediate guitarists and teaches repeating, continuous motion studies that show how to develop melodic patterns characterized by large intervallic jumps in pitch, from one note to the next, in constant succession. The tutorials in the Rock Curriculum: Fluid Soloing, Book 4 presents four unique approaches to developing wide interval soloing, all of which use string skipping: 1) double pentatonic scales, which are three-note-per-string pentatonic scale patterns; 2) octave sliding, which uses sliding octave shapes in a variety of ways; 3) stacked fifths, which are wide interval shapes derived from pentatonic scales; and 4) wide interval arpeggios derived from the diatonic major scale.
The sound that results from these techniques is exciting and unpredictable because it is such a departure from conventional melodic flow, which tends to be scalar, moving stepwise from one note in a scale to the next. By contrast, wide interval guitar soloing is angular and skewed with big skips and sudden directional changes, creating a complex and fascinating sound. All of the studies in the Rock Curriculum: Fluid Soloing, Book 4 instructional book are designed as melodic etudes that can be applied directly to soloing in rock, jazz, fusion, and blues music.
These guitar lessons are ideal for serious guitarists in any style who want to break out of typical soloing patterns and create a more explosive, radical sound. CD included.
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- Author: Tim Quinn
Level: intermediate
Number of pages: 152
Book dimensions: 11-3/4" H x 8-3/4" W
Date published: 9/24/2009
Series: MBGU
Manufacturer's product number: 20682BCD
ISBN: 078667296X
ISBN13: 9780786672967
