In Mastering the Blues Scale Volume 2, I demonstrate using the Blues Scale to create great blues licks you can use over dominant grooves on the blues, funk or rock and roll. I show you how to go... More > about getting your blues vocabulary together as you greatly improve your technique with these essential blues licks and scales. Play along with this book at your own pace, as you learn hundreds of great sounding and easily adaptable blues licks and patterns in all 12 keys. Playing these patterns is a fun and exciting way to make that transition from knowing the Blues Scale, to actually having it in your ears and under your fingers.< Less
"Just play the blues scale!" All across the country, you hear this advice given in every band room. Students sit with blank looks on their faces as band directors tell them to use this or... More > that blues scale on their solo. The advice usually doesn’t go much further than that and many kids end up playing solos that they are less than happy about. What many of these students need is a jump start. A few examples of what to play and how to play it...........Here you go!
Mastering the Blues Scale Volume 1 Minor has 100 blues licks written out in all 12 keys to help you sound amazing with the blues scale.< Less
Dickenson's supplement to the Guitar Fundamentals method book includes scales, technical exercises, rhythm, and definitions to guarantee aspiring guitarists will become better musicians. An excellent... More > accompaniment to the Guitar Fundamentals method book, also by J. Andrew Dickenson.< Less
This book presents all positions and patterns for basic scales (major scale and its modes, natural minor, and major, minor and dominant pentatonic scales).
For each scale are presented all chords you... More > can improvise on.
This is a great tools for improvisation in blues, rock and jazz.< Less
This book presents all positions and patterns for basic scales (major scale and its modes, natural minor, and major, minor and dominant pentatonic scales).
For each scale are presented all chords you... More > can improvise on.
This is a great tools for improvisation in blues, rock and jazz.< Less
The dominant bebop scale is an essential tool in playing jazz. It is used all over the place in jazz music. If your transcribing jazz solos you won't have to go long before you find some variation of... More > this scale being used. In this book I focus on the dominant tonality and what to play over it. The book starts out with the basic dominant bebop scale. The next section deals with what I call "Bebop Scale Links". These are small phrases or patterns that can be inserted into the bebop line to add variation. The next section deals with "Dominant Resolution Links". These can be added to the bebop scale when the dominant chord is resolving down a fifth. In the last section of the book, I write about how to use and practice these scales and links over a standard blues progression. I provide a 4 chorus blues solo to demonstrate. This book is filled with many musical gems that once mastered will add greatly to your jazz vocabulary. Have fun. I hope you dig these as much as I have over the years.< Less
In August, 2010, The American String Teacher magazine had these comments in their book review for Arpeggios, Rhythms and Scales: " Wow!. . . a unique and detailed boon for violinists who want to... More > develop their instrumental and musical tools, ear and knowledge necessary to perform and improvise . . . expands classical tonality . . . a completely different perspective for navigating the fingerboard . . . information never seen before in a scale book . . . a required tool for the violinist who is serious about becoming a . . . performer." It provides: arpeggios for 7th chords with useful fingerings, a variety of modal, blues and jazz scales, and rhythm exercises to develop technique. In addition, this book teaches the 7th arpeggios of many chords in all keys in several positions, to navigate the fingerboard and get to chord tones. A short music theory section describes the reasons that the 7th arpeggio is essential to improvisation. Three octaves are provided, and beginners can start with one or two octaves.< Less
In this workbook, you'll learn about how to construct a blues scale using all five box positions. I'll then show you how you play in each position to create musical phrases. The exercises start off... More > at the beginner level and move up through intermediate and advanced. You'll learn to unleash your inner blues man in no time!< Less
These exercises designed by J. Andrew Dickenson are effective for ensembles, bands, orchestras chamber groups, even rock bands and jazz combos looking for a creative way to warm-up. Each chapter... More > includes a basic scale plus exercises of varying difficulty and can be used to help musicians become better at sight reading, playing scales, and performing together as a solidified unit. A special vocal section gives singers solfège and syllables to sing with the group. This volume contains Asian pentatonic scales, minor pentatonic/blues scales, dorian modes, chromatic scales, whole-tone scales, and octatonic (diminished) scales.< Less
