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FREE! Guitar Study Materials
Technique, Composition,
Arranging, Scales, Modes, Chords,
Jazz Theory, Soloing, Improvisation, Jazz Riffs, Comping, and more ...

Guitar
Fingerings for the Major Scale and its Modes
The "Brent Box Sets" concept.
Bopology
101
Learn to solo in the BeBop idiom.
Complete with MIDI audio examples & guitar tab.
The
Principles of Rhythm Guitar
The "Spare and Ringy One", the "Pushed Three" and the "Busy
Four"
The
Evolution of the Major Scale
The origins of the discovery of the minor pentatonic scale
and its transformation into the Major scale.
Tritone
Substitutes
A study of their uses in a common progression.
Diatonic
Tertian Mega-Scale
A cool and useful idea for improvising over ii-V7-I changes.
Complete with MIDI audio examples.
Quartals
60 permutations of the ii-V7-I progression using quartals.
Also includes melodic ideas and comping suggestions using quartals.
Fowler-Brent
Shorthand
A precise and intuitive way of notating chords and scales.
The
Minors
Minor Scales, Their Chords and Progressions.
Complete with MIDI and MP3 audio examples.
Alphabetical Listing
Altered
7th Chords
Use of altered chords and their corresponding scale possiblities.
Bopology
101
Learn to solo in the BeBop idiom. Complete with MIDI audio examples
& guitar tab.
Comping
The "Dues and Don'ts" of accompaniment.
Creating
Melodies using "The Suggestive Method"
The natural path to melodic construction.
Diatonic
Tertian Mega-Scale
A cool and useful idea for improvising over ii-V7-I changes. Complete
with MIDI audio examples.
Evolution
of the Major Scale
The origins of the discovery of the minor pentatonic scale and its transformation
into the Major scale.
Fowler-Brent
Shorthand
A precise and intuitive way of notating chords and scales.
"Giant
Steps" Analysis
Demystifies John Coltrane's "Giant Steps".
Guitar
Fingerings for the Major Scale and its Modes
The "Brent Box Sets" concept.
Internalizing
Rhythm
Find where it lives.
Jazzing
Up a Simple Tune
Some ideas for reharmonizing non-Jazz songs.
Melodic
Tendencies
Note choices based on psycho-acoustic factors
Minors
Minor Scales, Their Chords and Progressions. Complete with MIDI and
MP3 audio examples.
Mystery
vs. Mastery
Musical evolution and the loss of innocence.
Practicing
How long should I practice every day?
Principles
of Rhythm Guitar
The "Spare and Ringy One", the "Pushed Three" and the "Busy
Four"
Quartals
60 permutations of the ii-V7-I progression using quartals.
Also includes melodic ideas and comping suggestions using quartals.
The
Relationship of the Fundamental to its Fifth and Fourth
The physics of perfect 4ths and 5ths.
Thoughts
on Modes
Some insights into modes.
Tips
on Transcribing
Practical advice on doing transcriptions.
Tritone
Substitutes
A study of their uses in a common progression.
Universal
Scale over iii-VI7-ii-V7-I progressions
Using the last four notes of minor 7th chords or dominant 7th chords
as melodic soloing choices. Complete with MIDI audio examples.
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Riffs & Licks
Bopology
101
Learn to solo in the BeBop idiom. Complete with MIDI audio examples
& guitar tab.
Quartals
60 permutations of the ii-V7-I progression using quartals.
Also includes melodic ideas and comping suggestions using quartals.
Universal
Scale over iii-VI7-ii-V7-I progressions
Using the last four notes of minor 7th chords or dominant 7th chords
as melodic soloing choices. Complete with MIDI audio examples.
Melodic
Tendencies
Note choices based on psycho-acoustic factors
Creating
Melodies using "The Suggestive Method"
The natural path to melodic construction.
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Modes,
Scales and Megascales
The
Evolution of the Major Scale
The origins of the discovery of the minor pentatonic scale and its transformation
into the Major scale.
The
Relationship of the Fundamental to its Fifth and Fourth
The physics of perfect 4ths and 5ths.
Thoughts
on Modes
Some insights into modes.
Guitar
Fingerings for the Major Scale and its Modes
The "Brent Box Sets" concept.
Minors
Minor Scales, Their Chords and Progressions. Complete with MIDI and
MP3 audio examples.
Bopology
101
Learn to solo in the BeBop idiom. Complete with MIDI audio examples
& guitar tab.
Altered
7th Chords
Use of altered chords and their corresponding scale possiblities.
Universal
Scale over iii-VI7-ii-V7-I progressions
Using the last four notes of minor 7th chords or dominant 7th chords
as melodic soloing choices. Complete with MIDI audio examples.
Diatonic
Tertian Mega-Scale
A cool and useful idea for improvising over ii-V7-I changes. Complete
with MIDI audio examples.
Fowler-Brent
Shorthand
A precise and intuitive way of notating chords and scales.
back to Table of Contents

Chords, Chords, Chords
Altered
7th Chords
Use of altered chords and their corresponding scale possiblities.
Quartals
60 permutations of the ii-V7-I progression using quartals.
Also includes melodic ideas and comping suggestions using quartals.
Tritone
Substitutes
A study of their uses in a common progression.
Jazzing
Up a Simple Tune
Some ideas for reharmonizing non-Jazz songs.
Fowler-Brent
Shorthand
A precise and intuitive way of notating chords and scales.
back
to Table of Contents

Practical Musical Advice:
Practicing
How long should I practice every day?
Comping
The "Dues and Don'ts" of accompaniment.
Tips
on Transcribing
Practical advice on doing transcriptions.
Creating
Melodies using "The Suggestive Method"
The natural path to melodic construction.
Melodic
Tendencies
Note choices based on psycho-acoustic factors
Internalizing
Rhythm
Find where it lives.
Mystery
vs. Mastery
Musical evolution and the loss of innocence.
Principles
of Rhythm Guitar
The "Spare and Ringy One", the "Pushed Three" and the "Busy
Four"
back
to Table of Contents

Lessons with Audio
Bopology
101
Learn to solo in the BeBop idiom. Complete with MIDI audio examples
& guitar tab.
Diatonic
Tertian Mega-Scale
A cool and useful idea for improvising over ii-V7-I changes. Complete
with MIDI audio examples.
Minors
Minor Scales, Their Chords and Progressions. Complete with MIDI and
MP3 audio examples.
Universal
Scale over iii-VI7-ii-V7-I progressions
Using the last four notes of minor 7th chords or dominant 7th chords
as melodic soloing choices. Complete with MIDI audio examples.
back
to Table of Contents
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