Product Description

The most complete book on scales and modes ever written. An encyclopedia with over 6,000 diagrams, charts and graphs. Complete explanation of all 5,6,7, and 8 tone scales and modes. The essential volume for every guitarist's library.

This book is a "where to" book, showing you exactly where to find any scale in any key on your fretboard. It is a professional reference tool to enhance your music library and playing that you will use for many years to come.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #125462 in Books
• Published on: 1991-01-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 215 pages

Review
"Immediately utilize scales and modes...a great book...check it out." -- Guitar for the Practicing Musician Magazine

"It puts every position of every scale at your fingertips." -- Guitar School Magazine

"The Guitar Grimoire is a complete reference manual of scales." -- Guitar World Magazine

Customer Reviews

Good Book for all guitarists
This book will give the guitarist freedom. I recommend it to all guitar players. Having an understanding of Modes and Scales before reading this book is a good idea, as it will then give you a quick reference to each and every scale and mode without having to spend hours of time working them out yourself.

Remember those lousy chord dictionaries? Here is one for scales.
Do guitar players really think that it's worth 20 bucks to have this guy show you the same pattern or idea printed over and over again in every single key? Or is it just cool to have a thick book with nice fonts and cool looking little charts (even though they're totally redundant)? I don't get why these books are so popular. They're short on ideas and long on wasting paper. It's like the old chord dictionaries that show you a million voicings but don't teach you a damned thing about how to use them, or how voice leading works, or how the notes interact with each other in an actual progression.

If you want a better scale book, there are dozens of better ones on the market that will actually teach you not only patterns but how to apply them, how to use them to make music, etc. Check out Don Mock's Guitar Secrets Revealed books, Ted Greene's Single Note Soloing Books, or even Guthrie Govan's books are much, much better than this. Want free resources? Look up scalculator on google, or look up "modes of melodic minor", or "modes of harmonic minor", or "exotic scales", or "CAGED patterns". You'll have more than you can work on in a lifetime in 2-3 clicks.

Kadmon seems like he's trying to hide the real concepts and expects you to look on page 164 to learn the Ab version of the same pattern you learned in F, instead of telling you to just move your hands up a minor third -- which makes sense since he sells more books when an insecure guitar player thinks he needs to be shown everything over and over again. He gets richer, guitar students get frustrated and overwhelmed (and poor). Do yourself a favor and spend your 20 bucks on a better book than this.

The Best
Should you buy this book? te answer is yes
when i receivedmy book i thought it was just going to be another one of those darn guitar books that starts you off in a extremely weird place and makes no sense,but i was ever so wrong when i opened the pages of this book i felt the power of knoweledge that was present in this book. Inside it explains everything that you need to know about making scales finding them out and playing them. this book also has many different scales and shows you how to play them by charts. Inside this book also has a "graph" which allows you to map modes and keys.