Gerig-Verlag’s Guitar Manual is a comprehensive reference work for the guitar and thus the ideal companion and portable teacher for every guitarist. Its chord and scale encyclopaedia provides the foundation for independence on the guitar, ensuring that every improvisation is a success. In addition, the book contains all power chords, slash chords, drone chords, fourth harmonies, alternate tunings, arpeggios and scales. The 42 jam tracks, available for download via a QR code, offer an immediate opportunity to put what you’ve learnt into practice, practise flexibility and give free rein to your creativity.
Contents:
Intervals
Chord Theory
Triads
Chord inversions
Triad positions
Close, open and mixed positions
Seventh chords
Inversions of seventh chords
Seventh chord positions
Extended notes
Alteration
Polychords
Scales
Pentatonic
Blues scale
Modes
Harmonic minor
Gypsy minor
Melodic minor
Diminished scales
Whole-tone scale
Chromatic scale
Chords & scales
Chord
Scales
Theory
Chord
Scales
Concepts
Chord
Reinterpretation through scales outside the key
Chord
Scales
Table
Colourings of the altered minor scale
of the seventh chord
Arpeggios
Arpeggio
Table
Arpeggio
Fingering charts
Chord glossary
Power chords
Slash chords
Fourth chords
Drone chords
Alternative Tunings
Chord chart for all keys (C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab, A, A#/Bb, B)
Appendix
Explanation of chord diagrams
Transposition of chords and scales
Chord synonyms (table)
Chord symbols (table)
Mnemonic links between scales and chords
Circle of fifths
Identifying keys
Concise glossary
Index
Manufacturer information
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG Weihergarten 5 55116 Mainz Germany [email protected] www.schott-music.com