New York Guitar Method Ensemble Volume One                                                                              Back to Digital Catalog page                  


NEW YORK GUITAR METHOD ENSEMBLE VOLUME ONE

by Bruce Arnold

The companion book to Volume One, "New York Guitar Method Ensemble Book One" contains multiple exercises to apply scales to guitar. Other exercises include reading on one string to develop fretboard knowledge and recognition of notes on a staff. Arrangements for four guitars using the jazz standard "Rhythm Changes" are provided for ensemble practice. Chord progressions and written solos are also included. These exercises allow students to play and accompany each other.

Solos and Chord Vamps for the following scales are covered:
Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian
Jazz Minor
Dorianb2
Lydian#5
Lydianb7
Mixolydianb6
Locrian Natural 2
Altered
Diminished
Symmetrical Diminished
Whole Tone
Harmonic Minor
Mixolydianb2b6
Major Pentatonic
Minor Pentatonic
Blues

Scale application to many common chord progressions are included:
Major 2 5 1
Minor 2 5 1
Turnaround I VI II V

Along with Jazz Solos the following Classical Etudes are covered:
Excerpts from Corelli's Trio Sonatas
Excerpts from Bach's Two Part Invention and Trio Sonatas
Plus excerpts from Beethoven and Haydn

The New York Guitar Method is used by New York University music department and is a required book for the Scales Course taught at  New York University's Summer Guitar Intensive Program.




Price: $19.99
IBSN: 978-1-59489-864-8


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