If you play guitar, you need to know the pentatonic scale. Virtually every guitar player uses it. Players like B.B. King (blues), Andres Segovia (classical), Eddie Van Halen (rock), and Joe Pass (jazz) have all made use of this versatile, guitar-friendly scale. It's as important to the guitar as learning chords.

When learning other instruments, you are often taught the major and minor scales first. The pentatonic scale is introduced much later. However, this is the scale that most guitar players start with, and for good reason: it's like the guitar was built for it, not to mention that a countless number of songs use it as the basis for riffs, licks, and solos.

• Help you easily navigate the pentatonic scale anywhere on the neck
• Build Coordination, finger strength, and dexterity
• Teach you how to connect scale patterns
• Build confidence in your soloing
• Increase your speed and accuracy
• Improve your timing

Whether you are new to the guitar or an experienced player, Pentatonic Master will strengthen your technique while building your skill set, taking your playing to a whole new level!

Edna Golandsky is a world-renowned piano pedagogue, the leading authority on the Taubman Approach, and the co-founder of The Taubman Institute and The Golandsky Institute. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she studied under Jane Carlson, Rosina Lhévinne, and Adele Marcus. After graduating from Juilliard, she studied with Dorothy Taubman for several decades.

Ms. Golandsky has earned worldwide acclaim for her pedagogical expertise, extraordinary ability to solve technical problems, and her penetrating musical insight. She has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Strad, Piano Magazine, Classical Music, Jazz Times, and the Clavier Companion, among others. To learn more about Ms. Golandsky and the Taubman Approach, visit ednagolandsky.com.

Perfect for the beginning guitarist in your life

Learn how to transition between the most important chords fast. This book is one that would help a new guitar player go from beginner to intermediate quickly.

Transitioning between guitar chords is tougher than most think. It takes intentionality and is a skill unto itself. Most new guitarists work hard to learn their first few chords, but don't realize the technique it takes to go from one chord to the next. Fast Guitar Chord Transitions bridges that gap-both for acoustic and electric guitar.

This is Micah Brooks' fourth book aimed at helping guitar players succeed, but the first with such a pinpointed aim. Micah has been teaching guitar for more than fifteen years with numerous successful students. Books like Worship Guitar In Six Weeks and 42 Guitar Chords Everyone Should Know have been worldwide hits. Fast Guitar Chord Transitions falls in line with his others-a perfect solution for the new guitarist looking for the inside scoop.

Inside this book you'll learn to transition chords in these essential keys:

• The key of G
• The key of D
• The key of C
• The key of E
• The key of A

Plus, there is a bonus chapter teaching you how to use simple music theory (called The Nashville Numbers System) and your guitar companion: the capo.

Transitioning chords quickly will make playing guitar fun and rewarding. Such a great resource

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What do George Clooney, Zooey Deschanel, Ryan Gosling, and James Franco all have in common? Answer: they all play the ukulele and now, with this easy step-by-step guide, you can too! With just this book and your ukulele in hand, you'll learn basic music skills, how to care for your instrument, and how to play some simple tunes. Whether you're looking to impress your friends with spontaneous sing-alongs, or just want to strum solo, How to Play Ukulele is the perfect entryway to the wonderful world of ukulele.

Drawing upon early recordings, documentary evidence, and the few surviving mechanical instruments, author Clive Brown investigates how we might rediscover the subliminal messages Classical and Romantic music notation was intended to convey to performers and argues that composers' intentions for their notation ought not to be confused with their expectations for its execution. The use of expressive practices that often involve substantial deviations from a conventional modern reading of the notation is not only a legitimate but also an essential element in getting closer to the composer's conception. The following topics are investigated over the course of sixteen chapters: metrical and rhetorical accentuation, dynamics, articulation, string-instrument bowing, phrasing, expression, tempo, tempo flexibility, ornamentation and improvisation, asynchrony, arpeggiation, rhythmic flexibility, sliding effects (portamento), and trembling effects (tremolo, vibrato). The book offers ample evidence to demonstrate that, in many respects, the sound worlds in which Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Brahms created their music were more radically different from ours than is generally assumed.

After it was published in 1999, the first edition of Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 quickly ensconced itself as a must-read for all students, scholars, and performers in historically informed performance. The revised and expanded second edition incorporates new information resulting from the author's continued research and practical experimentation since the publication of the original edition, and has benefitted greatly from his work with a succession of talented doctoral students over the years.

Massively improve your knowledge and understanding of the guitar fretboard and guitar theory with this step-by-step method for using the CAGED system.

Armed with everything in this book, you can learn and master the essential guitar scales all over the guitar neck, organize your fretboard for greater understanding and faster progress, use the exercises shown to practice smarter and more efficiently, and become a better guitar player, soloist, improviser and all-round musician.

In this method book (with accompanying demonstration videos and backing tracks) you'll discover how to use the CAGED method to unlock your guitar fretboard and overcome the fretboard 'roadblocks' which prevent most guitar players from ever truly mastering the guitar neck. After the CAGED system has been clearly explained, you'll learn how to apply it to the most useful guitar scales all guitar players need to know: the minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, major scale and natural minor scale plus arpeggio shapes for major7, dominant7, minor7 and minor7b5. I'll also reveal how to use what you've learned to master other essential guitar scales like the Dorian mode, Lydian mode, Mixolydian mode, minor6 pentatonic and the blues scale.

The CAGED System for Guitar gives you 40 sample guitar licks, with video demonstrations, to help you build your guitar solos and soloing vocabulary. You also get step-by-step practice routines and guitar exercises, as well as 'speed learning' techniques to help you to master your fretboard in a fraction of the time it takes most other guitarists.

In The CAGED System for Guitar you'll discover:

• The five CAGED chord shapes to use for organising and finally understanding your guitar fretboard. Learn how to memorize these quickly and easily using 'speed learning' techniques, circle of fifths exercises, and 'visualization' approaches for a solid fretboard foundation
• How to 'build' scale shapes and patterns around CAGED chord shapes for unshakeable fretboard knowledge and confidence! Use this method to find a shape for any scale, in any key, anywhere on the fretboard, and play guitar with freedom at last!
• 40 sample CAGED licks illustrating how to go from playing scale shapes to playing killer licks and solos all over the fretboard. These licks show you the tastiest bends, double-stops and scale runs to help you build your soloing vocabulary and start using each of the CAGED scale shapes like a pro (practice required!)
• How to build an endless number of great lick and soloing ideas. Use the techniques and practice methods described in the 'Vocab Accelerator' chapter to grow your soloing vocabulary, lick library, and soloing skills
• Step-by-step practice routines and learn the exact fretboard exercises to use in order to thoroughly and efficiently assimilate everything shown into your guitar playing repertoire

Ready to get started?

Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d). The tracks of slower tempos included in this Book & Online Audio set is available separately for those wishing to upgrade their old single-CD set they may have previously purchased.

Includes: Scales/Chords * Developing Creativity * Improv Fundamentals * 12 Blues Scales * Bebop Scales * Pentatonic Scales * Time and Feel * Melodic Development * II/V7s * Related Scales and Modes * Practical Exercises * Patterns and Licks * Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices * Nomenclature * Chromaticism * Scale Syllabus * and more!

NOTE FROM JAMEY:
When I first heard So What on the Kind of Blue record, I didn't think anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by and this seemed so tame by comparison. I quickly fell in love with Kind of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn't see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase. When I began teaching privately for the first time in Seymour, Indiana I had a girl flute student who really had a great sound. One day I asked her to improvise on a D- Dorian scale and off she went. I could tell she was playing what she heard in her mind and I was so surprised. It really sounded natural. So, I asked other students to play on a Dorian scale and they did fine. That's how I got started teaching improv. I think others at the time were using the blues as a vehicle but the students I was working with knew nothing about the blues but they could keep their place in the 4 and 8 bar phrases so I went ahead later and used that modal approach on my Volume 1 play-along . . . and the rest is history.

First published in 1926, by Carl Flesch (1873-1944).

The standard work for violin transcribed for viola with the goal of helping the violist develop better overall technique through scale exercises in all major and minor keys. A proven body of material that will pay many rewards to the conscientious student.

For Viola. Instructional and Scales. Bowings and fingerings. Essential instructional book. Flesch's Scale System has become the principal scale study for serious violinists.

Dr. Ray Smith is the saxophonists' saxophonist, the teachers' teacher. His 50+ years of saxophone playing and teaching have prepared him well to bring together perhaps the greatest breadth of practical saxophone information ever assembled under one book cover in The Science and Art of Saxophone Teaching. This book is valuable to saxophone teachers and serious saxophone students alike covering such topics as basic tone production (embouchure, oral cavity, breath support) and solving problems with tone, playing low notes, slurring down over intervals, solving reed issues, saxophone repair and adjustments, coordinating classical and jazz study and practice, warmup exercises and practice routines, articulation basics and articulation styles, development of technique and speed, choosing fingerings, solving vibrato issues, working on intonation problems, playing dynamics, rhythmic development, learning altissimo (may be worth the price of the book alone), phrasing musically, choosing good breathing places, working with ornamentation and cadenzas, dealing with differences between styles, becoming a multilingual musician, doubling other woodwind instruments and helpful information on clarinet, flute and double reeds, dealing with stage fright, and much more. This volume belongs in the library of every earnest saxophonist. There are also a series of video tutorials on a coordinated YouTube channel that bring all the concepts to life.

Ray has been blessed to be a master pedagogue and is sharing in this book the concepts, insights, and approaches he has used to help countless young players become great saxophonists and musicians. His track record as a professor at Brigham Young University is enviable. His students teach at many of the nations' universities, perform in the Broadway pits, play in the service bands of the Army, Navy, and Marines, and write for Hollywood movies. One is playing with the Dukes of Dixieland, and one is currently holding down the first tenor chair in the famed University of North Texas 1 O'Clock Lab Band. Ray, himself, a disciple of Eugene Rousseau, is a fine performer and well-recorded artist. He is equally at home in classical and jazz-related styles and adept at all five woodwind instruments. He has been heard frequently on the airwaves of this country (ESPN, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc.), on movies such as The Sandlot and The Swan Princess, and on Television series such as He-Man: Masters of the Universe, Xena, and Hercules.