The Melodic Minor Guitar Cookbook takes a look at the 7 modes of the Melodic Minor scale through a rock guitarist's eyes and teaches you how to add its distinct flavours to your music.

(Book). Spice up your playing with The Guitar Cookbook ! Written by Guitar Player magazine music editor Jesse Gress, this collection of "recipes" for satisfying a wide variety of musical appetites is for beginning to advanced guitarists. It covers all the ingredients for cooking up great music on the guitar: music notation, tuning, intonation, rhythm, melody, scales, motifs, harmony, ear-training, technique, improvisation and much more. Players will develop a personalized musical vocabulary; learn how to apply it to many different styles; master basic guitar techniques; and let the musical ideas sizzle!

"A modern guide to rock guitar playing; easy tutorials teaching you Melodic Minor and all its modes across the entire fretboard."--Cover.

This remarkably thorough text covers all the modes of the major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales. Twenty-one different modes are explained in detail and examined from five different perspectives. In addition, open position fingerings, closed position fingerings, harmonies, chord voicings, tips for improvisation, practice progressions, melodic patterns and sample solos are provided.

Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret" soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/audio packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature."

Melodic Minor Guitar will help you learn fingerings for the melodic minor scale while discovering the magical Augmented Major 7th chord and arpeggio that is found within it. Scale and arpeggio fingering positions are coordinated in a waythat will simplify things and have you making music in no time at all. Modes andchords of the melodic minor scale are explained along with written examples thatdemonstrate melodic ideas over common chord progressions. You will also find an entire solo written on the changes of a popular jazz standard, plus many colorful chord voicings derived from the melodic minor scale

What would you play when you see the chord symbols A7b9-sharp9, F7+5, Csusb9, or D-flatMaj7+5? What would you "blow" over a D Locrian #2? The Melodic Minor Handbook provides musicians of all levels with these answers in presenting a concise, practical, easy-to-absorb method of exposure, study, and practice in the components of melodic minor harmony, and its use within the jazz vocabulary. Although the sound of melodic minor harmony has been a staple of jazz music over the last half century, familiarity among many aspiring musicians with its derivative modes and chord types still seems to remain a mystery; and even though touched upon to a greater or lesser degree by various books and methods, a comprehensive study stressing melodic minor harmony as a unique harmonic universe of its own has been absent---until now 176 pages, spiral bound.