String Skipping and Wide Interval Soloing For Guitar-String Skipping and Wide Interval Soloing: 212 Melodic Studies and Patterns for Guitar is a much-needed guitarist's guide to mastering wide interval soloing.This collection of repeating continuous motion studies shows theguitarist how to develop melodic patterns that are characterized by large intervallic jumps in pitch from one note to the next in constant succession. This book presents four unique approaches to developing wide intervalsoloing all of which utilize string skipping: 1) double pentatonic scales which are three-note-per-string pentatonic scale patterns; 2) octave sliding which uses sliding octave shapes in a variety of ways; 3) stacked fifths which are wide interval shapes derived from pentatonic scales; and 4) wide interval arpeggios derived from the diatonic major scale.The sound that results from these techniques is exciting and unpredictable because it issuch a departure from conventional melodic flow which tends to be scalar moving stepwise from one note in a scale to the next. By contrast wide interval soloing is angular and skewed with big skips and sudden directionalchanges creating a complex and fascinating sound. All of the studies in this book are designed as melodic etudes that can be applied directly to soloing in rock jazz fusion and blues music.This book is ideal for seriousguitarists in any style who want to break out of typical soloing patterns and create a more explosive radical sound! Includes access to online audio.

Media Type : Book Level : Advanced Musical Genre : Jazz Series : MBGU Number of pages : 40 This book offers an easily learned method that will quickly move the student from intermediate into advanced harmonic territory, adding richness, texture and uniqueness to the improvisational approach. The concept starts with common elements of basic diatonic harmony and moves them in ways that gradually increase the harmonic complexity of their application. Students will greatly expand chord vocabulary and add considerable interest and depth to improvisations. This method provides a simple approach to making the use of alterations and extensions a natural part of any player's harmonic vocabulary. â?¢ Simple, familiar forms are applied in unique ways to add richness and texture to the improvisational sound. â?¢ Uses a simple methodology to integrate alterations and extensions into the harmonic repertoire. â?¢ Rich with ideas to open your ears and add harmonic interest to your playing. â?¢ Reinforces knowledge of chord scales, arpeggios and drop 2 and drop 3 chord voicings. â?¢ Following the completion of this study, the concepts from this book can be used by anyone to continue to experiment and discover a unique and individual sound.

VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll. VH1 sent ballots to over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys and radio programmers and asked them to vote on the 100 greatest songs of rock and roll. The results were shown in a much-publicized feature, and selections from that show are here in this awesome collection of the best and most influential rock songs of all time! Songs are arranged by their ranking with artists listed, and include: All Along the Watchtower ? American Pie ? Blowin' in the Wind ? Born to Run ? California Dreamin' ? Fire and Rain ? Good Vibrations ? Hey Jude ? Hotel California ? I Heard It Through the Grapevine ? Imagine ? In the Midnight Hour ? Jump ? Layla ? Light My Fire ? Like a Rolling Stone ? London Calling ? Louie, Louie ? Maggie May ? My Generation ? No Woman No Cry ? Proud Mary ? Respect ? Roxanne ? Smells like Teen Spirit ? Stand by Me ? Start Me Up ? Tangled Up in Blue ? Walk This Way ? We Are the Champions ? Wild Thing ? Yesterday ? and more.