Fingerboard Mastery: Scales & Arpeggios Book 1

Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning

This in-depth scale and arpeggio text is core curriculum at the University of Southern California's

Using a comprehensive approach that includes three different organizational systems, it covers the technical foundation that is necessary for playing any style of music.

The CAGED system (five positions), the Finger Stretch system (all twelve keys in one position) and the Three-Note Per String system (seven patterns) are examined.
Although each of these three systems is examined, the CAGED system serves as the basis for much of the material covered in this book.

This book presents patterns for the major scale and its relative modes, the major pentatonic scale, the minor pentatonic scale, and the blues scale. Along with these scale forms, patterns for arpeggios that are for the most part diatonic to (in the key of) the major scale are presented. These include major, minor, diminished and augmented triads, and also major 7, dominant 7, minor 7 , and diminished 7 chords.


Book Two