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    The Ultimate Guitarist's Survival Guide: 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and Substitution
    The Ultimate Guitarist's Survival Guide: 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and Substitution
    The Ultimate Guitarist's Survival Guide: 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and Substitution
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    The Ultimate Guitarist's Survival Guide: 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and Substitution

    By Brant Grieshaber

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    This book outlines a comprehensive practice routine for truly mastering the fingerboard of the guitar. This is not just a collection of scales, chords, and arpeggios, but also a set of exercises that will teach you how to really use these tools and, most important, the presentation of a system that will give you full command of whatever you wish to play on the guitar.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateJan 19, 2014
    ISBN9781483518343
    The Ultimate Guitarist's Survival Guide: 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, and Substitution

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      The Ultimate Guitarist's Survival Guide - Brant Grieshaber

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      Introduction

      Congratulations! You’ve just stepped onto the path to true mastery of the fingerboard. Perhaps you’ve been following a path, or more likely, a series of paths, for some time and found the trail markers for this one. In either case, here you are. There are four things I’d like to address before we get started. These are of utmost importance if you’re going to get out of this book what is has to offer.

      1. What it does:

      The materials in this book are intended to give you command over ONE aspect of playing guitar: what you play. It’s a fingerboard road map of sorts. There are six chapters: Technique, Scales, Arpeggios, Chords, Substitutions, and Etudes. The technique chapter covers how to approach your practice in order to develop your chops. The Scales, Arpeggios, and Chords chapters each contain two parts. The first part is essentially a reference - a catalog of shapes. The second part is a collection of exercises that will give you a deeper understanding of how those shapes work and what you can do with them. The Substitutions chapter explores some of the various ways you can use the same chords or arpeggios to produce different sounds. The Etudes will help you develop three essential picking techniques: alternate-picking, sweep-picking, and string-skipping.

      2. What it doesn’t do:

      I mentioned that this book covers one aspect of playing guitar: what you play. There are basically three components of music - what you play (notes), when you play it (rhythm), how you play it (articulation, dynamics, feel). The when and the how are just as important as the what even though they are not dealt with here. Music is NOT just about the notes! This book IS just about the notes because the fingerboard can be a very confusing and complicated place.

      I’m also not going to address application (what ‘works’ in what context - ie: style and interpretation) of these materials. There are numerous resources out there that can help you explore these other areas of music and a good teacher is invaluable in rounding out your education.

      3. How to use it:

      I suggest that you first check your road-kit for the following tools: reading, theory (scale and chord construction, intervals, diatonic harmony, secondary dominants and sub-Vs, and modal interchange), and ear training. These tools will be necessary when you start to expand on and apply the exercises in this book. You will hear three things often: work it out in all twelve keys, practice it across the entire fingerboard , and apply the concepts behind the exercise to your own ideas. Your reading, your understanding of theory, and your

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