25 Guitar Scale Hacks The other routes through the fretboard
The fretboard is a maze. Learn one or two scale systems to get through it, and you stop seeing all the other ways through. This book is about those other routes, and how to make music with them.
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Scale systems get you through the maze. Then they keep you on one path.
When it comes to scales and improvising, the fretboard is a maze. That’s both good and bad. Like any maze, it’s easy to get lost, familiar routes lead to dead ends, and finding your way out can be overwhelming. But it also gives you countless routes, and each one has its own creative possibilities.
The trouble is that once you’ve learned one or two scale systems to get through the maze, you stop seeing the other ways through it, or avoid them altogether.
This book sets aside the standard patterns, 3NPS and CAGED, and explores the other patterns, shortcuts and quirks the fretboard has to offer. The aim is motion and fluidity: getting the music out of any static pattern.
Guitar first, patterns second
Most scale books start from generic patterns and fit the guitar to them. This one starts from the guitar, with all its quirks, and works out what you can do with scales from there.
25 mini-lessons
Each hack is a short, self-contained lesson on a different way through the fretboard.
No set order
Work through the book from start to finish, or go straight to the hacks that interest you most.
Music, not drills
The point of every hack is what you can play with it, not another pattern to memorize.
Intermediate to advancing players
- You know your scale patterns, but your solos sound predictable.
- You’re stuck in a rut, playing the same routes up and down the neck.
- You want to move away from rote pattern playing.
- You want your playing to stand out from the crowd.
25 Guitar Scale Hacks
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