Octave Mastery: A Comprehensive Lesson on Octave Scales and Octave Arpeggios: How to Quickly Learn to Play and Incorporate Octaves into Your Solos and Improvisations

by Ryan Belisle

Octave Mastery If you are looking for a new and creative way to expand your ideas and techniques for guitar soloing, or if you know a guitarist who is, then Ryan Belisle's “Octave Mastery” is your next lesson. One of the easiest and most underutilized techniques for adding texture and variety to your improvisations can be learned by simply mastering the playing of Octaves. Ryan Belisle's “Octave Mastery” is a comprehensive lesson that begins by introducing the 3 most common shapes used for playing octaves on the guitar. After Ryan discusses these useful shapes he explains the different techniques for playing Finger Style vs. Strumming, plectrum vs. thumb, and the “muting” technique made famous by legendary jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Ryan then provides Major, Natural minor, Harmonic minor, and Melodic minor Octave Scale patterns. Each Octave Scale pattern is organized by it's root/string location which makes for easy recognition, learning and, ultimately, transposition between keys. Ryan doesn't stop there! He expands on these ideas by providing an extensive Octave Arpeggio section that covers Major7, Dominant7, minor7, and m7(b5) type Octave Arpeggios. Ryan, again organizing by root/string location provides three 1-Octave and one 2-Octave Arpeggio patterns for each of the four arpeggio types. Ryan concludes Octave Mastery with a detailed Example Section which provides a specific musical context for using both Octave Scales and Octave Arpeggios. Octave Mastery provides everything any guitarists needs--regardless of age or skill level--to learn to play octaves on the guitar! Learning Octaves on the guitar couldn't be easier! Ryan has thoroughly detailed this extremely valuable guitar technique using his easily understood concepts and clear diagrams and charts. Written in standard notation and TAB, Octave Mastery is the definitive lesson plan for learning Octaves on the guitar.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 7, 2014