Guitar: Scales Made Simple: Step-by-Step Approach to Positions & Patterns Essential to Music & Fretboard Theory; Straightforward Exercises & Diagrams to ...

by Scott Harris

The easiest way to learn scales EVER... Scales Made Simple will teach you... The 5 essential fretboard positions...The 7 Modes of Music...A simple and straightforward explanation of the fretboard and its patterns...Exercises for fast, long-term memorization...Easy to understand diagrams...An introduction to music theory...How to adapt these exercises to other string instruments...And MORE... Download this book FREE on Kindle Unlimited - Understand Chords Today! Look inside for a free download of my popular 80 Positions & Patterns PDF (No purchase necessary for the free download!) Use Amazon's "Look inside" the book feature for the download link. Words from the "I never considered myself to be a musician when I was growing up. In fact, I was thoroughly convinced I did not have what it takes to be able to play music. I took cello lessons and failed miserable. I took piano lessons without making much progress. I sort of learned to play the recorder in school, if you can call playing hot cross buns playing. What I’m getting at is that I was a terrible musician. I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t keep time, I couldn’t play an instrument, the list of things I couldn’t do with respect to music is long. I found this particularly frustrating because my father is an absolutely fantastic professional saxophone player. I figured somewhere in me there had to be an inherent talent for music. I was very wrong. What I realized as I grew older was that my father didn’t have an inherent musical talent either. What he did have was an unstoppable drive to succeed. It took me a few years to get over my false idea that I could never be a good musician. A few years earlier my father had bought me a guitar as a Christmas present. It was sitting in a dusty case in my room, neglected. I had recently met a man named Jacob, another amazing musician. Jacob’s talent was with string instruments, particularly the bass. I asked his advice about what I should learn first. He told me to learn music theory, so I went online and began to read. I read a lot and started to teach myself scales. I was still really terrible at the guitar, but I kept at it, and slowly I improved. I stress the word slowly. A couple weeks into this process I asked Jacob to teach me guitar, and he said he would. I quickly found out that Jacob–despite being a wonderful player–is a horrible teacher. Jacob cannot think like a beginner, he cannot break down the knowledge and present it in bite sized pieces that are easy to swallow and digest. I wrote this book with that in mind. During the process of teaching myself the guitar, I learned a lot about how to teach guitar. I applied what I learned to write my best-selling guitar Scott's Simple Guitar Lessons. I’m still learning today. Music is extremely complicated and eclectic.

Genres: Music

82 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 19, 2015

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[Mae Brogdon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great Easy to understand book

Would have given it 5 stars had the PDF links worked. That was disappointing. I hope it gets corrected for future readers. This is the best explanation of scales. Modes, intervals etc I have came across. Don't let the three star rating keep you from getting this book. This is more than a book. It's a tool.