Here’s what you will learn with Styles for the Studio, 40th Anniversary Edition:
40th Anniversary Edition
- How to improvise over contemporary musical styles using scales and arpeggios
- Pop Sounds (♮3 and ♮7 notes)
- Major Blues Sounds ♮3 and ♭7 notes)
- Minor Blues Sounds (♭3, ♮3, ♯4, ♭7 notes)
- Country Sounds (♮6, ♮9/sus2, ♭7 notes)
- Where particular sounds are found and why they sound good in various musical settings
- How to decide which scales or arpeggios to use over a chord progression
- How to learn with “position playing” and then forget about it
- When to think about “modes” and when to think from the root of a chord – making it simple, not complex
- All about the details of string bending and how to play harmonized (two note) scales and licks
- The importance of sustain and staccato notes
- The importance of ‘attack’ and control of volume in your solos
- How to use triplets to change the feel of a solo
- How you learn to improvise
- How to practice improvising in the way best for you
- All the improvising sounds shown across the entire fingerboard
- Techniques included for building melodies and licks (melodic patterns and sequences) with all scales
- Basic harmony that can stop the worries and not confuse you
- How everything can be transposed
- A “stepped” method based on music that lets you focus on a few sounds at a time, while building on the previous lessons
Enjoy your playing more, work at it less and…
- Stop Guessing – Know where everything is
- Stop Worrying – Know why sounds work in solos
- Stop Hesitating – Play freely from the sounds you hear
- Forget Fingerings – Play fluidly with the sounds all internalized
- Accelerate Learning – Know what every lick in every “lick book” is showing you, and where it belongs
- Leverage Your Knowledge – Link these fingerings to chords, and for music reading as well
- Play Confidently – Play what you want, when you want
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