Edition Dux Acoustic Pop Guitar Soloing

In this textbook, the internationally renowned fingerstyle guitarist and university professor of classical guitar shares his approach to ‘thinking’ about pop music on the guitar and outlines his method for improvisation and arrangement. To this end, he explores the following topics:

• Understanding chord structures
• Understanding the fretboard
• Chord context: the CAGE system
• Building blocks for your solo
• Professional licks right from the start
• Playing with playalongs
• A Guide to Chord-Melody Arrangements

The aim is to help guitarists get a feel for using the so-called ‘CAGE system’, so they can give free rein to their creativity and musicality.

Contents:

• CAGE system: an overview
• The Structure of the Chord
• Chord Context
• IMPROVISATION
• Chord Environment, Fingering Type E
• Minor pentatonic
• Blues pentatonic
• Major pentatonic
• Mixed pentatonic
• Chord environment, fingering type G
• Major pentatonic
• Mixed pentatonic
• Combination of fingering types G–E
• Acoustic Pop Guitar – Song Examples, Part 1
• Chord Environment: Fingering Type A
• Minor pentatonic
• Blues pentatonic
• Major pentatonic
• Mixed pentatonic
• Chord Environment, Fingerboard Pattern C
• Major pentatonic
• Mixed pentatonic
• Connection between fingering types C and A
• Acoustic Pop Guitar – Song Examples, Part 2
• Summary
• ARRANGEMENT
• CAGE System: Arrangement, Part 1
• Blowin’ In The Wind: Melody and Chord Types
• Blowin’ In The Wind: Solo Arrangement 1
• CAGE System: Comping
• The Girl from Ipanema: Melody and Accompaniment Chords
• CAGE System: Arrangement, Part 2
• The Girl from Ipanema: Solo Arrangement
• CAGE System: All Together Now!
• Blowin’ In The Wind: Solo Arrangement 2
• Appendix 1: CAGE Scales
• Appendix 2: All The Licks
• Appendix 3: Play-alongs and audio examples