Guitar Total Scales Techniques and Applications: Lessons for Beginner through Professional [Paperback]

Mark John Sternal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2005

The #1 Bestselling Guitar Scale Course (also available for Bass Guitar & Spanish), GUITAR: Total Scales Techniques and Applications. You Can Be Better! The Easiest and Fastest Way to MASTER YOUR GUITAR. The 1st & Only Method To Expertly teach you every scale, every trick & technique, in every musical key, anywhere on the entire fretboard! We turn Beginners into pro's & make the pro's even better! ***BOOK & CD LAYOUT ***Pages 1-11 BASICS: All the basics a beginner needs to know to read and understand guitar music. Includes TAB explanation, basic notation, the musical alphabet and the guitar, tuning, finger & hand position. ***Pages 12-16 THE FRETBOARD: The entire fretboard, (guitar neck), presented in TAB and standard notation. 3 simple finger positions and 7 patterns are used to teach scales on the entire fretboard of the guitar. ***Pages 17-88 TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS: Every trick and technique that has ever been invented is introduced to the different positions. Starting with the most basic, progressing through intermediate and advanced, these pages introduce every tool of the trade for making music with scales. ***Pages 89-102 MODES & KEY CHANGES: Thoroughly explained, giving you a full understanding of scales, key changes, and modes. Every key of music is presented in TAB and standard notation for the entire fretboard of the guitar. ***Pages 103-176 EXOTIC SCALES FROM ALL CULTURES: Pentatonic, Balinese, Bob, Minor scales, jazz scales, gypsy scales, Spanish scales, ...they are all presented in TAB and traditional notation for the entire fretboard! ***CD SUPPLEMENT: The entire book is narrated and performed on the "GUITAR: Total Scales Techniques and Applications" audio CD. ***FREE BOOK TECHNICAL SUPPORT: With the purchase of "GUITAR: Total Scales Techniques and Applications" you also gain the author, Mark John Sternal, as a teacher. If you ever have any questions pertaining to the book you can contact MJS Music Publications online. All book questions ar

Editorial Reviews

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...pure playing with basic scales and also tons of cool exotic scales that intermediate and advanced players will really enjoy ...tons of cool guitar techniques ...a rare resource that you'll use far more than you might anticipate. --Guitar Digest Magazine

For beginner to expert... every position on the guitar and all the ways to use them... --Music Connection Magazine

...combines instruction and exercises for mastering all types of scales on the guitar. --Teaching Music Magazine

For beginner to expert... every position on the guitar and all the ways to use them... --Music Connection Magazine

...combines instruction and exercises for mastering all types of scales on the guitar. --Teaching Music Magazine

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: MJS Music & Entertainment LLC (January 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976291703
• ISBN-13: 978-0976291701
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #587,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to get your left hand working, August 22, 2005

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Luis Carlos Solano (San Jose, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guitar Total Scales Techniques and Applications: Lessons for Beginner through Professional (Paperback)

Well, I bought this book when I was just starting and when I opened It seemed to me so hard. Well, I decided not to leave it behind and I started to practice. I can tell that the information in the first 30 pages will keep you busy for so long time. Mastering just the first scales and their applications will teach your left hand how to travel up and down the neck of your guitar. I still use those first applications to warm up. As I'm still more related with acoustic guitar, some applications (like hammering) I can say are not so useful, but, with the electric guitar, are incredible. Take this book, a lot of patience, hard work and you'll see results.

32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PRICELESS GUITAR INSTRUCTION, April 22, 2006

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J M Corlew - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guitar Total Scales Techniques and Applications: Lessons for Beginner through Professional (Paperback)

I own this book and consider it priceless! To date I've never found a guitar book that so clearly explains its contents. The beginning of this book is very beginner friendly and progresses at a steady rate getting you used to playing all over the fretboard. The author has you achieve this by using 3 finger patterns. Each scale position points out major and minor root notes, so you can easily change things up. Although this is a book on scales, Sternal does introduce basic chords on page 18 which can be used with the scale to write music. You don't need to memorize each scale position because pages 19 through 88 has you repeating them when new techniques or applications are introduced. This alone has helped me become familiar with the entire fretboard of my guitar as well as every cool trick I've ever heard or seen in concert!

The second half of the book introduces modes and key changes. Not only does the author clearly explain how to change keys, he also does the work for you. Every key change is written out for the entire fretboard. Cultural and exotic scales are also included, and again written for the entire fretboard. The entire book is written with staff connected to TAB, just like most magazines and song book transcriptions. It also includes a CD which the author narrates and performs the entire book.

I own over 70 guitar books, many of which have left me frustrated and confused. Total Scales Techniques and Applications has proven to be the most amazing tool I've ever seen for guitar players. This book has taken me by the hand and made me a very advanced guitarist.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best guitar scales book I've seen., August 20, 2005

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The Capitol (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guitar Total Scales Techniques and Applications: Lessons for Beginner through Professional (Paperback)

This book is a pretty good value, especially at it's new, reduced price and the addition of the CD. (It was still a good value at $24.95 with no CD.)

Mark really set out to make the best scales book when he designed this, and he has succeeded. Anyone can make a book about scales, but what makes this book a winner is all of the techniques and applications you'll learn to use along with these scales. You'll learn there are a lot of things to do with a single scale! Unfortunately, this IS NOT the last guitar book you'll ever need! If you want to be a well-rounded player you're going to have to check out another book.

(I recommended Modern Method for Guitar: Volumes 1, 2, 3 Complete by William G. Leavitt)

My only complaint about the book is that he features an acoustic guitar on the cover, and if your guitar is not a "cut-away" you will have difficulty reaching to play all of the notes in this book. And then there are a few scales that reach the 22nd fret, which you probably won't find on your acoustic. You can still play a good deal of the scales on any acoustic, but I thought it only fair to mention this for any of you acoustic players.

Still, for a scale book, this one is #1. Mark has put so much effort into preparing this book! He has rewritten it many times to make it perfect! I had the opportunity to speak with him and he really cares that people succeed on the guitar, and all of that care has been put into this book. You owe it to Mark AND to yourself to check this book out.

P.S. If you have already purchased this book and did not get the edition which included the CD, it is available as a free download off the author's website!