Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #579285 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 202 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780825826795
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Customer Reviews

A Complete Guide For the Guitarist and Keyboardist
I've found this fourth volume in the Guitar Grimoire series serves quite well as a less expensive replacment for both the first volume (Scales & Modes) and the 2nd (Chords & Voicings).

It does not provide the fretboard interval maps, but the sweeping patterns for guitar and bass are shown in the usual black-fret-spot notation.

Also, I must contend the earlier, shamefully negative review below from the reader in Jane, Missouri:

This grimoir is a great way to learn your way around the keyboard and to study the compatibility of chords and scales for composition and improvisation.

I also recommend the Guitar Grimoire Chord Encyclopedia, and Guitar Grimoire Progressions, and for the self-taught musician who want's to improve their reading, the Guitar Grimoire Excercise Book and Notated Intervallic Study of Scales.

Adam Kadmon has crossreferenced the essential math of scales (and their modes,) intervals, chords (and their voicings,) and progressions to allow any would-be musical magician to craft their own spell-binding music. And afterall, isn't that what a grimoire is all about? (If you don't know, look up "grimoire" in a good dictionary!)

Someone finally did it right!
"jane you ignorant (??)
Kadmon has done what has never been done properly. For years I searched for a comprehensive guide of scales and modes, and I've seen `em all!! This one beats the pants off ALL others. Prime example: every other so called "scale encyclopedia" will give you (especially in the case of the exotic scales) modes of the same scale listed as a separate scale. You have to muddle through endless transpositions to discover that the Double Harmonic and Oriental are both modes of the Hungarian Minor. Hours of wasted creative time discovering that the Lydian Minor and the Major Locrian are both modes of the Neopolitian Major. I had actually begun this insane task when I came across Adam's book. What a godsend! The included fretboard maps alone make this book even better than any other Guitar scale book! The cord/scale relationship charts are priceless. And personally, I love the fact that none of this is represented in traditional notation.

This book is excellent for the guitarist.
This book is not written for the student of keyboards. It is written for the guitarist delving into the world of midi, requiring instant keyboard chord and scale fingering, a task which can be quite tedious and cumbersome to the guitarist. I highly recommend this book to all guitarists who need the keyboard mapped out. When I started sequencing years ago, I had nothing to go by. I would have loved to have a book like this back then, it would have made life alot easier. Midi & keyboard will be easy from now on.