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Title: The Guitar Grimoire Scales & Modes by Adam Kadmon ISBN: 0-8258-2171-1 Publisher: Carl Fischer, LLC Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding instructional/reference book
Comment: This impressive tome explains scales, and their various modes, in the most comprehensable manner I've ever seen.
Not only are they explained, just about every scale you could want to play is plotted out for you on the fretboard diagrams. Every pattern. Every position. Except for ummm... Chinese Mongolian??? Well, I couldn't care less what's *not* covered because what *is* covered is more than adequate. If you even know that Chinese Mongolian scales exist, you don't need this book.
However, if you're a beginning guitarist who has mastered the basic fundamentals - such as how to press the string onto the frets - this book (and all of Kadmon's books) is a must investment. If you're an intermediate level guitarist, this is a must have. If you're an advanced guitarist, this is a must have.
Fourteen 7 tone scales are covered: Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor & Major, Hungarian Min & Maj, Neapolitan Min & Maj, Enigmatic Minor, Enigmatic, Composite II, Ionian b5, Locrian #7, and Persian.
Three 5 tone scales are covered: Minor Pentatonic (the blues scale), Kumoi and Hirojoshi.
Four 6 tone scales: Whole Tone, Augmented, Pelog, Dominant Sus.
Six 8 tone scales: Diminished, 8 Tone Spanish, Bebop Locrian #2, Bebop Dominant, Bebop Dorian and Bebop Major.
Every scale is mapped out in every key... on a full fretboard... and in individual patterns. The keyboard patterns are even diagramed so you can see how the scale looks on a keyboard. Perfect for MIDI musicians. Quick Mode Generator charts. Scale/Mode - Chord Charts. Numeric Scale/Mode charts.
You want to understand the scales and their modes and have the patterns mapped out for you so you can look at them while you practice?
Buy this book.
And there's nothing wrong with the books binding either... unless you regularly walk on it or abuse it in some manner such as spilling bear or puking on it. That might ruin the binding.
- Alleyrat
Rating: 3
Summary: delivers what it promises... well, almost
Comment: Adam Kadmon, who is admittedly a completeness freak, has created one of the most complete scale books I've ever encountered. There are several qualms I have with this particular volume (not necessarily applicable to his other ones), which account for my low rating.
First, however, I must point out its positive qualities. The presentation format, while notably lacking standard notation, is excellent. It explains very well how to use the format in which the book is put together, and the author is very consistent in using that format, even when it seems excessive or redundant. Each scale section contains:
*mode generator chart with piano keyboard pattern;
*chord compatibility for each mode
*guitar neck patterns for each mode (both in position and "sweeping" or three-notes-per-string)
*Kadmon's patent numeric analysis of scale degrees, which he uses to explain theoretical aspects of things
*complete fretboard and individual positions for sweeping paterns for the scale/modes in each key
Besides the lack of standard notation, which I consider a necessity not for practical but for moral reasons, the author also neglects to point out the root of each scale in the diagrams. This is a minor drawback, but it can become an issue for people who aren't that familiar with theory. Although there is a basic explanation of where things come from in the introduction, it might be difficult to grasp for a reader that doesn't exact standard notation.
Another drawback is the inaccessible structure. The book is arranged into scales by the number of tones they contain, each of those sections further subdivided into types of scales that are not modes of each other. The modes are subsequently listed in each section of their respective parent scale, but not in the table of context. So this "professional reference tool" only works one way - you have to know the name of the scale you're looking for in order to use it. You're even worse off if you have to find a particular mode that is an unusual one. For example, how are you to know that Lydian #2 is actually the 6th mode of the Harmonic Minor scale. Granted you could figure it out from the name for this one, but suppose you need a mode/chord compatibility of some Hungarian-Gypsy-composite-enigmatic-dominant-II... you have nowhere to go. There is no semblance of an index that allows to find a scale and its related information based solely on the knowledge of the scale structure.
The last point I want to make, is that this book is actually not the most thorough scale reference of all possible ones. True, it stands above all others in the market, but it either lacks some highly exotic scales (Byzantine, Chinese Mongolian) or calls them by other names. It does include quite a number of other exotic scales (Hirojoshi, Neopolitan, Hungarian, etc).
This is a good book, but its usefulness is often limited to development by research, and the nomenclature of "reference book" may be misleading in application to this particular one. Perhaps this is remedied on the DVD or in the subsequent volumes.
Rating: 5
Summary: best guitar book written
Comment: This is by far the best guitar book ever written, and it will be the best [money] you ever spend. It has accurate descriptions of intervals and scales and easily enables anyone to teach themselves the information.
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Title: Guitar Grimoire Progressions & Improvisation by Adam Kadmon ISBN: 0825831970 Publisher: Carl Fischer, LLC Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Guitar Grimoire a Compendium of Guitar Chords and Voicings by A. Kadmon ISBN: 082582172X Publisher: Charles Dumont & Son Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title:Guitar Grimoire Scales & Modes-DVD ASIN: 0825849063 Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.95 |
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Title:Guitar Grimoire Chords & Voicings-DVD-3 ASIN: 0825849071 Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.95 |
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Title:Guitar Grimoire Progressions & Improvisation-DVD4 ASIN: 082584908X Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.95 |
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