J Walker

Teach Yourself Scales & Modes

A mode is a scale in which the tonal center has been displaced. It is simply playing a major scale in any given key and beginning and ending on the same note an octave apart which is not necessarily the root of the key. To comprehend then implement these improvisational scales is an important lesson and the melodic basis for many great jazz artists. Scales & Modes are an important part of the playing styles of so many great guitarists that to name them all would be an impossible. Teach Yourself Scales & Modes with an instructional CD by Jared Walker is a self learning guide and fantastic tool for teaching scales and modes by using a step by step gradual approach. Thenumerous exercises with examples of over 100 scales & modes include standard notation and tablature with suggested fingerings. The Derivation of Scales - The Twelve Major Scales - The Circle of Fifths - Open Position - Scales - Open Position Fingerings - Open Position Major Scales - Minor Scales - Relative Major & Minor Scales - Melodic Minor Scales - Open Position Minor Scales - The Box Position - Major & Minor Scale Box Positions - Scales with Position Shifts - Creating the Melodic Minor - The Modes - Box Patterns for the Modes - Two Octave Patterns for the Modes - Three Octave Patterns for the Modes.