Product Description

Recommended for every guitarist regardless of playing ability or musical taste. Starting with all the basics a beginner needs to know, yet it builds at a steady progressive rate through advanced and professional level techniques and applications. A scale encyclopedia, but more importantly showing every possible way to use these scales to make music with them. Over 5 years of private lessons ($5000.00 at current weekly lesson rates).***** Master every note, every scale, every key, in every position on the entire fretboard of your guitar! This is the only course you will ever need to learn scales, and play lead guitar - And it's all in one book!***** Traditional music notation and TAB, (tablature), throughout the entire book *** Improve playing ability and improvisation *** Write great solos, leads, and fills *** Understanding of key changes and modes simplified *** Other books and videos, even ongoing series, do not compare *** Highly praised by beginner through professional guitar players *** Master your guitar on the entire fretboard *** Each lesson is built on what you have learned from previous pages *** Includes every scale known *** A valued reference for as long as you play guitar *** Professional and college level made easy *** 166 JAM-PACKED PAGES!! ***** In a prepublication test run we received over 10,000 word of mouth orders for this book, (we only expected a few hundred). Testimonies from users have been astounding. Beginner through professional guitar players agree that Total Scales Techniques and Applications exceeds all other guitar books and instruction videos on the market today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145899 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-30
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
...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

Shawn Eiferman, Artist Submission, February 2005,
has opened up things for me and given me options that I didn't know I had available... Those notes were

Paul Ash, Personal Letter, October 2004
"Your book is excellent." Paul J. Ash President Sam Ash Music Corporation & Affiliates

Customer Reviews

This book is the way!!!!!!!
For any guitarist lookin to make the jump to lead i highly highly recomend this book. its got everything a teacher could give you at half the cost. point blank.

Comprehensive resource for learning guitar
I bought this product after considering various alternatives. Now that I've used it a bit I have to say it's incredibly comprehensive and very well researched. The book is likewise very well produced. As an absolute beginner I must admit the course does ramp up pretty quickly, but I cannot imagine there is another guitar learning resource I'd rather have around as my playing skills become more accomplished. I also want to point out that the seller is extremely helpful and responsive to questions sent via email.

Basic Scale Book
Not quite total scales n techniques.
It's a basic scale book full of your typical exercises.
Nothing mind boggling and not nearly as total as the book would lead you to think.

A student bought this book online and brought it in.
He thought he was on to something until he got the book and was mythed to learn it wasn't exactly as advertised.

As a teacher it's not bad but there is certainly much better methods on the market.