The new Styles for the Studio, 40th Anniversary Edition consists of:
- The Book: 88 packed pages (buy on Amazon)
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- Digital Package: Backing Tracks and Videos, Volume 1 (available separately right here)
- Over 100 audio backing tracks for the book’s examples (immediate download)
- Listen to a Sample Backing Track→
- 12 concise videos to illustrate various techniques and ideas (immediate download)
- Over 100 audio backing tracks for the book’s examples (immediate download)
- Sample chord progressions with scale analysis
- All the sounds of Rock, Blues, Country and Pop
- Major Scales
- Minor Pentatonic Scales
- Major Pentatonic Scales
- Blues Scale
- Mixolydian mode (scale)
- Dorian mode (scale)
- Arpeggios (major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, minor 7b5, extensions like 9, 6/9, 13) in all the major scale fingerings
- A single interlocking system of 7 fingerings that covers all the scale and arpeggio sounds (“CAGED+2”)
- Fingering diagrams for all scales, arpeggios, and melodies. Reading music not required
- Harmony references are explained in the book, when needed. We keep it to a minimum – ‘need to know’ only
- How to link all fingerings together and move easily between fingerings
- How scales relate to arpeggios and chord forms
- Right hand and left hand techniques (Pinch, ‘Chicken Picking,’ and more)
- String bends – theory, technique, and examples all diagramed from the scale fingerings
- Bending “down,” pedal steel sounds, and staying in tune
- String bends with ‘Pedal tones’ (one note bent, the second held held)
- Bending into chords
- Double string bends (both notes bent at the same time)
- Harmonized scales – playing 2 notes at a time for the Diatonic Major, Dorian, and Mixolydian sounds (using 3rds, 4ths, and 6ths) in all positions
- Exercises for both hands to develop the skills needed for double string bends and harmonized scales
Find out what you’ll learn in this new edition here →