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"Essential Scales" presents the 22 most used scales in contemporary music for any instrumentalist.  These scales include:
•    Modes of Major.
•    Modes of Melodic Minor Ascending.
•    Diminished.
•    Symmetrical Diminished.
•    Whole Tone.
•    Blues.
•    Major and Minor Pentatonic.
This book also presents:
•    3 and 4 note chords generated from each scale.
•    Chord/scale relationships in all keys.
•    All 2 and 3 note modal sequencing.       
•    A chord scale relationship chart.
•    The common 3 note fingerings for guitarists.
•    The concept of Long Line Rhythm which explains how to play these scales and sequences at fast speeds with accuracy.

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        This book is a required text at New York University and Princeton University.