Category: Music Publisher: Raif Orheim Music Publications
ISBN-10: 0989912906
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 108
Copyright: Jan 1, 2014
ISBN-13: 9780989912907
Travel the globe with your fingertips -- through 14 unique guitar scales from around the world -- and entertaining look at unusual exotic scale sounds that you may not have played before.
Travel the globe with your fingertips -- through 14 unique guitar scales from around the world -- and entertaining look at unusual exotic scale sounds you may not have played before. In addition to the fourteen different scales, the book also provides chords derived from those scales, and riffs and licks that will keep you learning and challenged about many countries' musical styles. The book includes the history (with color photos) of each country's distinct musical instruments and unique sounds -- along with numerous music examples, standard guitar notation and tablature, and strange, exotic scales, licks and riffs that are literally Out-Of-This-World.
Excerpt
"The name exotic scale is a very relative term. Usually, when people refer to a scale being exotic they mean it is not frequently used. This may or may not be the case since somewhere in the world it might be very popular."
