Mel Bay Complete 7-String Guitar Method - Buzzelli - Book

Author: Chris Buzzelli
Format: Book/Audio
Instrumentation: 7-String Guitar

This comprehensive method book is best suited to an intermediate to advanced six string guitarist who is learning the seven string guitar. Included are sections on scale and arpeggio fingerings as well as an extensive section on chord voicings. All examples are presented in both tablature and standard notation, with diagrams also included where appropriate. The seventh string is tuned to a low A throughout. The audio download contains play-along tracks with full rhythm section, single note studies with accompaniment (in split-track format), and unaccompanied solo studies. Most examples can be played either finger style or with a pick. Includes access to online audio.

Contents:

• Introduction to Scales
• Major Scales
• Pentatonic Scales
• Blues Scales
• Harmonic Minor Scales
• Diminished Scales
• Whole-Tone Scales
• Melodic Minor Scales
• Part Two Arpeggios
• Basic Arpeggios
• Extended Arpeggios
• Polychord Arpeggios
• Part Three Chord Voicings
• Chord Voicings I
• Tenths
• Adding the seventh above
• Chord Voicings II
• Dropping the seventh
• Chord Voicings III
• Raising the third
• Chord Voicings IV
• Raising the seventh
• Chord Voicings V
• Open Triads & Barre Chords
• Appendix A
• An Explanation of Inversions
• Appendix B
• An Explanation of Voicing Types
• Appendix C
• Playalong lead sheets