The Ultimate Scale Book – Guitar Scale Sheet Music Songbook | Major, Minor, Blues, Modes and Exotic Scales | Easy-to-Read Fretboard Diagrams | Pocket Guide TAB | Hal Leonard | Troy Stetina

For the first time, I actually feel good and confident about learning scales. Once you grasp the underlying theory, intervals, and how the entire neck connects, it stops feeling like a daunting chore and actually makes sense. If you want a clear, complete, and rewarding way to learn the fretboard, this is it.

My instructor introduced me to his well worn copy of this book so I ordered mine the same day. The subject matter is very well presented, explained and laid out. While the physical size of the book allows for easy transport, an optional larger book with larger printing would be helpful for those of us whose eyes aren't as good as they once were. Practicing the scales while following along in the book can be challenging. A complaint about Amazon: I live in an apartment building. The book was left on a table in the lobby NOT as Amazon stated: "It was handed directly to a receptionist or someone at a front desk."

I have many different scales books, and found this one to be the most straight-forward and easiest to follow. The cost is excellent and cheaper than most. I do have the same complaint as others: it would be nice to have it spiral bound since it's difficult to hold the pages back even using a music stand. Otherwise a good purchase and necessary for any good guitarist.

I been playing my whole life professionally by ear and I got away with if fine as I learned years ago what notes fit as I solo, never really learned the scales. But as I got older and feeling a little routined in my solo I felt going back to basics and putting in the time to learn the different scales in all the keys would be a good idea, finally. I find I knew most paths to skim down the fret board I though pretty well. But after memorizing scales in this book it was easy to pick up box per box better paths and when playing them along with loop chord patterns and a drum track how many areas I avoided over my years. This has opened the door to be a way better player. It does take time to memorize but that goes with studying anything in life we want to learn and get better with. Yea the book pages are small but they are packed full of everything you need. I keep it next my practice guitar ready to jump into another section. Once I feel I have them all down per scale. I go into my studio with Loop tracks and see how I did memorizing them against it. This is laid out perfect for those who just want to jump on the scales. I would say memorize each scale down the neck. Then play along with a loop chorded track and drum machine. If makes it fun plus if you hit a bad note that does not fit you will know to look it up or learn to avoid it which teaches you to learn the scales. correctly.

This may well be the most lucid and interesting treatment of guitar scales every written, but since I can't make sense of half of what he says, it does me little good. It suffers from a very common problem with instructional material on music. It throws out terms without explanation, uses a variety of interchangeable terms without discrimination, and doesn't define the terminology except occasionally in the middle of an explanation where it does not belong. In short, If you don't already know about music and theory, you'll likely be lost in pretty short order. For Example: "Tonality refers to the pitch of the starting note, or "root" note. For example, A major and G major demonstrate two different tonalities. Different tonalities may also be called simply "different keys." " So a "key" is a "tonalitiy?"...then, "Modalities may be referred to to as being different "types of keys." " ...so then "modalities" must also mean different "types of tonalities" since tonalities equal keys? ....then "So any scale or key requires two things to be specified - a starting pitch (tonality).....BUT WHOA.. didn't we just learn that a tonality is also a key? So then a key, and a tonality, and a pitch are all the same thing...heck, if they all mean the same thing why are we referring to them by 3 diferent names? WEll, me thinks you get the idea. By the time I got done with the first few paragraphs, it had become so convoluted that I simply moved on to other things. Might be great for music majors, which is the same things as music students (persons who study music), but for the uninitiated its a wipeout.

I have recently purchased several guitar scale instructional books, most of them are linked to this item's intoduction on Amazon (See above). They all excellent resources. However, of all my purchases I value this work the highest. In particular what helped me was the illustrations of the scales from each "tone (A,G,E,F etc.)" and "mode (minor, major etc.)" and the notes involved along the entire neck, and how altering key/tone effects the scale. It cleared up a lot of mystery for me as a new student to guitar scalework. Now in fairness all the other books show much the same information, however, it was the particular manner in which the material was presented in this work that made things quickly understandable. (A picture is worth a thousand words--never more true!) Not just any illustration but comprehensive overview and comparison, without getting too bogged down. Personally I recommend this work for anyone starting out, Thanks Troy.

It’s fit the purpose.

Everything is great! Thanks

Nie wiadomo po co ta broszura ma taki dziwny format. Sugeruje on poziome układy diagramów skal... ale tak nie jest. Rozumie, że wtedy nie zmieściło by się to na 60 stronach.... treść jest o.k. ale broszura jest nieporęczna i mało praktyczna.

Libretto simpatico e completo , davvero un ottimo prodotto se pensiamo il prezzo basso. Consiglio a tutti l' acquisto perché un libretto del genere può essere sempre utile da portare con sé .

It is ok. Good. That is what I thought at first. But that is not complete. Because I since better understood the way it is explained, I changed my mind. I finally like very much the content and the way theory is presented, with good tips to help memorization - especially if a good knowledge of the chords is already an asset. It is more practical than most of my stuff on the subject and, in that way it is good to have it beside.

fast delivery and the book is just what I wanted

El libro es el típico folleto de bolsillo con trabajo sobre escalas. Poco que decir sobre el. Mucha información en muy poco espacio, lo que es bueno por un lado, pero por otro, hay algunos patrones de escalas que están tan pequeños, que hay que tener muy buena vista para verlos bien.