SCALES @POUES: Md : A cD 6.» More] Movable Scales and Modes Arranged over Rock, Shuffle ) and Funk Gréoves eeIntroduction Practicing scales is about the most efficient thing you can do to improve your tech- nique. All music using harmony is based on scales, so when you work on scales and modes you benefit twice: You gain greater dexterity and increase your knowledge of fretboard theory. Sounds great on paper, but there’s just one problem: It’s so boring! Rarely in real music do you find an entire ascending or descending scale in uniform rhythms. Fast passage- work often includes a whole octave of some scale, but melodically scales are dreary entities indeed. No one will argue that real music picks up where scales leave off. Scales are simply a means to improving musicianship—they are not ends to themselves. But steps can be taken to remove the drudgery from scale exercises that has plagued instrumentalists since the dawn of lessons. That's what we've done in Scales And Modes. We've taken the most essential scales for playing rock, pop, jazz, countr ethnic music and set them to background tracks. This serves two purposes: issical, and 1) You can actually see what a typical progression is for any given scale (e.g. which chords are used for the Lydian-Dominant scale) 2) You have a musical cont xt in which to practice your scales and modes. Fach scale is presented in the fingering that is typically most used for that position. The pentatonic and blues scale variations have position shifts written in that allow you to access other inversions of the scale. The exercises are played twice through—once at a slower tempo, and once at the performace-level typical for that groove. Chord names above the music indicate the chords used by the rhythm guitar on the left channel of the backing tracks. Example numbers in the music correspond to CD track numbers. Use these scales as a point of departure for your own compositions and improvisations. ‘Transpose them and find alternate fingerings if you wish. But always keep Scales And Modes on the music stand or in your guitar case. It will serve ‘double duty” as a handy reference guide and indispensable tool in your daily practice regimen. About The Author Jon Chappell’s books have sold more than 60,000 copies worldwide and are available in several different languages. He has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra composer Gunther Schuller, and has appeared on Flying Fish and Relativity Records. He has performed and recorded with Graham Nash, Pat Benatar, Roger McGuinn, John Prine, and has played on numerous television and radio commerc He currently lives in New York.Contents The Major Scale The Pentatonic Major Scale The Minor Scale The Pentatonic Minor Scale The Harmonic Minor Scale The Phrygian-Dominant Scale The Dorian Mode ; The Phrygian Mode Ys The Lydian Mode he The Mixolydian Mode Pas if The Locrian Mode eH ‘ The Diminished Scale ie The Half-Whole Diminished Scale The Whole Tone Scale The Blues Scale The Mixo-Blues Scale The Lydian-Dominant Scale * The Super-Locrian Scale The Hindu Scale The Gypsy Scale The Hungarian Scale The Hungarian-Minor Scale TABLATURE EXPLANATION/NOTATION LEGEND ' 4 y