Guitar Logic: Patterns For Creative Expression (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692140178)

Understand the guitar completely like never before.

This innovative musical system easily integrates the Blues and Rock into the Western musical system.

Written by a guitarist for the guitarist with step-by-step instruction from over 40 years of teaching.

This guitar book of instruction provides a rich source of information that can be referenced or memorized for on the fly improvisation, solo development and songwriting.

Guitar Logic: Patterns For Creative Expression is the definitive book of guitar instruction.

Diagrams with detailed explanations are placed on facing pages for ease of learning the lessons.

Easy notation, as a visual aid, is included with the lessons for those who want to learn to read.

Everything that is played on the guitar will be played within the seven mode patterns.

Chords, melodies, harmonies, solo's and improvisations will all be played in these seven "playgrounds."

There are five basic chords that all chords are derived from.

Each of these five basic chords are presented with their variations in The Chord Guide.

Now the guitarist has five chord form choices for every chord to play

Learn the rules of the guitar game first, then forget them and play intuitively.

Guitar Logic: Patterns For Creative Expression is full of guitar information that has been logically laid out in step-by-step instruction for a lifetime of pure guitar playing pleasure.

Playing guitar from a pattern map is far more intuitive than intellectual configuration. The patterns can be used as a reference guide for songwriting and recording or easily memorized for on the spot improvisation.

The Beginning Guitarist easily becomes acquainted with their guitar right from the start and after learning the introductory lessons is well prepared to enter into the intermediate level.

The Intermediate Guitarist will have the doors of understanding open as the sections on theory and the basic patterns are introduced unlocking the secrets of the guitar thus getting the player out of the rut of "playing the same old thing" which is so common at this level of playing.

The Advanced and Professional Guitarists will appreciate the system that has been logically presented. The patterns of modes, scales and chord scales provide the guitarist with the map of the guitar that allows the freedom of improvisation freely from within these patterns without the hesitation of making mistakes.

Guitar Instructors will appreciate this well organized and overflowing with information guitar book with its step-by-step layout in planning their weekly lessons for their students.

Guitar Logic: Patterns For Creative Expression was written by a guitar instructor, with over 30 years playing and teaching experience, on an ever-evolving basis from actual classroom and private guitar lesson settings that addresses the many different students levels of learning.

Integrating Blues, Jazz, Rock and Country improvization into the Western musical system the author has simplified the use of scales eliminating the many conflicting and confusing theories that have never really made any sense. Being that these scale patterns are so closely related to each other, there are basically only seven patterns to learn - this is as simple as it gets. These patterns will fulfill every musical need the guitarist requires.

The Chord Guide in Chapter 19 is the first logically presented chord reference book that actually works. With five chord choices it's now intuitively easy to find the perfect chord that fits into your arrangement.

Every guitarist should have Guitar Logic: Patterns For Creative Expression on their music stand