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Scales and Arpeggios for Jazz Guitar

The Basic Building Blocks of All Melodic Content in Music.

Taught by: Corey Christiansen

Course: $37.00 USD Buy for $37.00 USD

61 Students Participating

  • Lessons21
  • Contains
    21 videos (3:22:18), 19 PDF files
  • Abilitiesbeginner, intermediate, advanced, master
  • VersionVersion 1.7
    2016-05-02T16:01:41.323Z
  • Includes Lifetime access
    Mobile friendly format

Course Description

Scales are the basic building blocks of music. This lesson teaches scales, modes, and arpeggios. Students will discover how to apply these musical aspects to chords and harmony and how they are used in improvisation and composition.

Scales are the basic building blocks of music that are used to construct melodies, chords and arpeggios. In this course you will discover how chords and scales are used in jazz improvisation and composition.  Corey's innovative approach is based on two simple moveable patterns that can be combined to create any scale. You will learn to easily construct modes from their parent scales, the major scale and melodic minor scale. Pentatonic scales and their application are also included in this invaluable collection of lessons.

  • The Fundamentals of Scales And Arpeggios In Jazz

    In this chapter Corey simplifies scales and arpeggios by reducing scale patterns to just two essential shapes that will forever change the way you visualize the fretboard.

    • Notes On The Fretboard
      1 video (17:47), 1 PDF file

      Put an end to the mysteries of the fretboard! This lesson shows you how the guitar fretboard functions musically and how you can better memorize it.

    • Major Scale: Cycle Of Fifths
      1 video (15:13)

      Corey shows you how to master the fretboard by breaking you out of 'box' patterns, allowing you to see all the notes in all keys on all strings.

    • The Major Scale: Pattern One
      1 video (09:41), 1 PDF file

      Corey's simple one octave approach to learning the major scale will open up the fretboard and get you improvising all over the neck.

    • The Major Scale: Pattern Two - Combining Patterns
      1 video (08:56), 1 PDF file

      Part II of Corey's simple one octave approach to mastering the major scale. Combining these two shapes will open up the fretboard and get you improvising all over the neck.

    • The Natural Minor
      1 video (10:44), 1 PDF file

      Learn patterns one and two of the natural minor scale.

    • The Harmonic Minor Scale
      1 video (02:40), 1 PDF file

      The harmonic minor scale, and the harmony which can be derived from this scale, is a staple in jazz. This lesson presents Corey's simple, but effective "two patterns" for the harmonic minor scale.

    • Melodic Minor
      1 video (03:54), 2 PDF files

      In this lesson you will learn how the melodic minor scale and how it can executed to function as an improvisational device.

    • Major Arpeggios: Pattern One
      1 video (04:31), 1 PDF file

      This lesson presents a logical approach to learning arpeggios. Learn one arpeggio shape that you can use to on all string groups and in all keys over the entire fretboard.

    • Major Arpeggios: Pattern Two - Combining Patterns
      1 video (06:22), 1 PDF file

      Learn another pattern for the major arpeggio and how to connect it to other one-octave patterns to enable playing the arpeggio in multiple octaves over the entire fretboard.

    • Minor Arpeggio Patterns One and Two
      1 video (07:11), 1 PDF file

      Learn how to manipulate and use the minor arpeggio over the entire fretboard.

  • Modes

    Let Corey demystify this essential scale system.

    • Modes Overview
      1 video (03:58)

      Learn The Secrets Of The Modes! Within the major scale there are seven scales referred to as Modes. They each have a unique and beautiful sound. 1 video (03:58)

    • Modes Of The Major Scale
      1 video (08:17)

      Learn the LIMDAPLE approach to understanding the modes of the major scale!

    • The Dorian Mode
      1 video (12:32), 1 PDF file

      The Dorian mode is the second mode or scale found within the major scale and is THE default scale to be used against minor chords in most popular improvised music styles.

    • The Phrygian Mode
      1 video (13:14), 1 PDF file

      The Phrygian mode is the third mode of the major scale and has some very unique and interesting applications. Easily learn this scale and it's applications using Corey's "Two Pattern" approach to learning scales.

    • The Lydian Mode
      1 video (10:44), 1 PDF file

      The Lydian Mode: Fourth Mode Of The Major Scale.

    • The Mixolydian Mode
      1 video (11:34), 1 PDF file

      The fifth mode of the major scale. 7th chords and more!

  • Modes Of The Melodic Minor

    Short section description

    • Introduction To The Modes Of The Melodic Minor
      1 video (06:15)

      Expand your sonic palette and improvisational powers through the exotic sounds of the modes of the melodic minor scale.

    • The Dorian b2 Mode
      1 video (12:14), 1 PDF file

      This lesson presents construction and fingerings of The Dorian b2 scale, the second mode of the melodic minor scale.

    • The Lydian Augmented Mode
      1 video (11:14), 1 PDF file

      The Third Mode Of The Melodic Minor.

    • The Lydian Dominant Mode
      1 video (12:52), 1 PDF file

      The Fourth Mode Of The Melodic Minor.

    • The Altered Scale
      1 video (12:25), 2 PDF files

      The seventh mode of the melodic minor. This scale truly yields essential sounds for the modern improviser.

About The Author

Corey Christiansen

Corey has authored or co-authored over 70 method books and projects for Mel Bay Publications. He has written many articles for many of the major guitar magazines in North America and Downbeat Magazine. He has the developed The Modern Guitar Community, an online guitar-learning site. He currently is the music head at Education Advantage (an online accredited high school) and on the board of advisors for musiclessons.com. Corey currently teaches at Utah State University and has taught as an adjunct professor at the famed Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (2008-2013), BYU-Idaho and is an outreach educator for Caleb Chapman Music. He is also an artist-in-residence at Atlanta Institute of Music (Atlanta, GA), and Broadway Music School (Denver, CO)


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