In The GuitArchitect's Guide To Chord Scales, Scott Collins shows you how to make your own scales to use over chords and how to derive chords from whatever crazy scales you come up with in an easy,... More > intuitive and musical way.
Over the course of its 190 pages, the Guide To Chord Scales not only offers extensive instruction and approaches, but also acts as a reference book covering chord scale options ranging from 3 notes right on up to the full 12-note chromatic.
While devised as a guitar resource for instructional, compositional and/or improvisational material - this book can be a vital component in any musician's library.< Less
In "The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Harmonic Combinatorics", Scott has gone into the nuts and bolts of chord construction and analysis by taking a systematic approach to... More > generating thousands of chord variations that can be utilized intuitively in any key.
In addition to being a vast harmonic resource, Scott also shows the reader ways to make melodic lines from this material allowing the book to double as a melodic resource as well.< Less
In "The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes", Scott Collins explored an intuitive two-string method of understanding the guitar fingerboard in a logical and concise way. His approach,... More > GuitArchitecture, uses seven core fingerings for major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales that replace rote memorization with an intuitive overview that can be applied to any scale or modal system.
In this companion book: "The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns", Scott has taken the two-string approach from the Guide to Modes book and created a reference book of melodic permutations that allow the reader to generate an almost infinite number of unique melodic cells and sequences.
Applicable to guitarists and bassists, this book is an invaluable resource for both compositional and improvisational material.< Less
In "The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes", Scott Collins explored an intuitive two-string method of understanding the guitar fingerboard in a logical and concise way. His approach,... More > GuitArchitecture, uses seven core fingerings for major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales that replace rote memorization with an intuitive overview that can be applied to any scale or modal system.
In this companion book: "The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns", Scott has taken the two-string approach from the Guide to Modes book and created a reference book of melodic permutations that allow the reader to generate an almost infinite number of unique melodic cells and sequences.
Applicable to guitarists and bassists, this book is an invaluable resource for both compositional and improvisational material.< Less
In The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes, Scott Collins explored an intuitive two-string method of understanding the guitar fingerboard in a logical and concise way. His system, GuitArchitecture,... More > uses seven core fingerings for major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales that replace rote memorization with an intuitive approach that can be applied to any scale or modal system.
In The GuitArchitect’s Positional Exploration, Scott has taken an introductory guitar exercise and turned it on its head to reveal deep possibilities in not only in positional visualization, but in technical awareness as well. This book shows how to take a simple idea and creatively develop and modify it through melodic, harmonic and rhythmic variations that can be applied to your own music as well.< Less
In The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes, Scott Collins explored an intuitive two-string method of understanding the guitar fingerboard in a logical and concise way. His system, GuitArchitecture,... More > uses seven core fingerings for major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales that replace rote memorization with an intuitive approach that can be applied to any scale or modal system.
In The GuitArchitect’s Positional Exploration, Scott has taken an introductory guitar exercise and turned it on its head to reveal deep possibilities that exist not only in positional visualization, but in technical awareness as well.
This book shows how to take a simple idea and creatively develop and modify it through melodic, harmonic and rhythmic variations that can be applied to your own music as well.< Less
In The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Harmonic Combinatorics, Scott has gone into the nuts and bolts of chord construction and analysis by taking a systematic approach to generating thousands... More > of chord variations that can be utilized intuitively in any key. In addition to being a vast harmonic resource, Scott also shows the reader ways to make melodic lines from this material allowing the book to double as a melodic resource as well.< Less
This book is a substantial improvisational and compositional reference for the contemporary musician.
About Scott Collins
Scott Collins received his undergraduate degree in composition from the Berklee College of Music and a graduate degree in guitar performance from CalArts.
In addition to numerous live performances, he has toured in both the U.S. and Germany, performed in several world and U.S. premiers of new works and performed the thematically improvised score for the About Productions stage adaptation of Norman Klein’s “Bleeding Through” with Vinny Golia.
Committed to the art of real-time composition, Scott specializes in applying the medium to film accompaniment. He has performed and co-lead workshops on improvisation in Mexicali and Mérida, Mexico.
Scott is also the author of The GuitArchitect’s Guide To: series which includes book on
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