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    Guitar in Theory and Practice
    Guitar in Theory and Practice
    Guitar in Theory and Practice
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    Guitar in Theory and Practice

    By Kevin M. Buck

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    Guitar in Theory and Practice is a revolutionary approach to learning the guitar. Guitar in Theory and Practice is the most simple and efficient method ever created.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 16, 2008
    ISBN9780983534723
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      Guitar in Theory and Practice - Kevin M. Buck

      Copyright © 2011 Kevin M Buck

      Eternal Eye Publishing

      ISBN: 0983534705

      ISBN-13: 9780983534709

      eISBN: 9780983534723

      cover design, book formatting and poster illustration by Jeff M Napadow

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission of the author.

      Acknowledgement

      I have learned so much about music from so many places. I cannot tell you exactly where I learned some of this info, or from where it all originated. Some of these ideas are recurring thought forms that have been around forever. I discovered much of this by trial and error, and by personal reflection and study. However, I still must give an incomplete list of people who I have learned from, either directly or indirectly. I recommend looking into all of their work, as well as all of my work, for future study. They have all helped me to learn and develop many of the ideas in this book through their words, writing, or by analysis of their compositions, philosophies, playing styles and music. I also owe thanks to every book, magazine, television program, and conversation that I ever had with anyone about music.

      Uli Jon Roth, Harry Hmura, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Randy Rhoads, Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Jimi Hendrix, Allan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Niccolo Paganini, Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, John Coltrane, Django Reinhard, Pythagorus, Aleister Crowley…and thousands of other people that I cannot remember, but to whom I owe much for their infinite wisdom.

      I also should acknowledge the fact that without the support from my loving wife Laura, her parents Leslie and Ellen Zurawic, my mom Marilyn and her husband Richard Dort, my dad Ronald E. Buck, Jeff Napadow, and so many of my friends. I certainly would not have been able to create this book, or any of my musick for that matter, without you. I am eternally grateful for the sacrifices you have all made, and continue to make for me, to live my dream of being a full-time musician. This book is a product of all of your dedication.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      What to Learn in order

      Names of the Strings

      Note Names

      Chords (Open, Bar and Seventh)

      Scales

      Major Scale and the Modes

      Pentatonic Scale Fingerings

      Mode Fingerings (As Six Note Shapes)

      Mode Fingerings (As Three Notes Per String in A Major)

      One Octave Scale Fingerings

      Diagonal Shapes Using Octaves

      Mode Fingerings (in A Minor, A Harmonic, A Melodic, and A Hungarian Minor as Three Note Per String Fingerings)

      Conventional

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