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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.