eBook: JM-Scales-book

A scale ordered by increasing pitch is an “ascending scale”, and a scale ordered by decreasing pitch is called „descending scale“. Some scales may contain different pitches when ascending than when descending.

(Quelle: Wikipedia)

Scales are something like the „musical base content“ or essence of any kind of music-style. Any chord, any kind of melody is defined by it wether if we talk about todays Pop-, Rock-, Jazz-, Dance-music, Classical-music or whatever kind of music-style…maybe just not within “Free-Jazz” 😉

That said it is pretty clear why as a musician and especially as a (Gypsyjazz-)guitar-player it is very important to build up an intense knowledge about scales, thus to be able to understand and use it´s contents in any kind of musical situation. But how?

This new eBook (available only for download) contains 20+ scales, explaining the standards like basic major- or minor-scales as well as many altered-, (half-)disminished-, bebop-, mixolydian-, super or ultra locrian scales.

The book will then finally end up with all kinds of more exotical-scales that nevertheless may also make sense of beeing used in (Gypsy-)Jazz, such as the general Gypsy-minor- or the spanish Gypsy-scale, the hungarian major and – minor-scale, the romanian minor-Scale as well as the pure oriental- scale or the wholetone-scale. Everything is precisely explained and documented with images of every scale mentioned, showing all contained intervals.

Contents of the eBook:

Introduction

Major-Scales

• Natural major Scale
• Natural pentatonic-major-Scale
• „Bebop“-major-Scale

Moll Skalen

• natural minor-Scale
• pentatonic-minor-Scale
• „Blues“-Scale

Altered variations of natural Scales

• harmonic minor-Scale
• melodic minor-Scale
• melodic minor-Scale (ascending)
• melodic minor-Scale (decending)
• melodic minor-“Bebop“-Scale
• mixolydian-Skala
• mixolydian-altered-(Bebop)-Skala
• half-disminished-Skala
• disminished-Skala
• chromatic Skalen

Exotic and other variations of Scales

• the „Gypsy“-major-Scale
• the „Gypsy“-minor-Scale
• hungarian major-Scale
• hungarian-/persian-Gypsy-Scale
• spanish „Gypsy“-Scales
• romanian minor-Scales
• oriental Scale
• ultra-locrian-Scale
• wholetone-Scale

Epilogue