John Stockdale’s Guitar Method Curriculum to be used in conjunction in the classroom or video sessions.
The books download as a zip of individual files. Once downloaded and unpacked, select the last jpeg and swipe up to include all files. The selection of all files will then be in the correct order as a book.
Book 1
Welcome to the guitar, stance, how to read tab and the grid, Chord exercises, first chords to memorize, first song, intro to fingerstyle
Book 2
Music history, reading the staff, chord transitions and reading rhythms
Book 3
The terminology of Scale degrees, octaves, C scale construction in 6 positions, Memorizing notes on the fretboard, accidentals, chromatic scale, aerobics for finger independence, whole tone scale, key signatures, bar chords
Book 4
Music history, modes, intervals, scales, arpeggios to memorize
Book 5
Construction of scales, intervals, triads, inversions, harmonized major scale
Book 6
Jazz chords, Harmonic minor, melodic minor, technique
Book 7
88 Jazz chord progressions/jams to studying chords, rhythm, scales, arpeggios and improvisation
101 Heavy Lead Guitar Lines
Progressive, Thrash, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock you get the picture. Tony Macalpine, Paul Gilbert, Randy Rhodes, John Petrucci, Zakk Wylde, Joe Satriani and more. Challenge yourself on Alternate picking speed, Legato, Tapping, string skipping and more!
194 Exotic Scales
What other scales can I use over chords? What new scale can I find to create a riff that sounds original? What new chords from scales have I not heard yet that I can use? I need Inspiration. I’ve hit a Plateau.
1290 Studies An Intro to Fusion
What you should have under your belt before getting into deep music exploration. A small intro of How and What to practice to get from intermediate to advanced performances. Sequences and runs from all major, blues, harmonic and melodic modes in different time signatures covering all regions horizontally and vertically of the fretboard are a start using scales, diads, triads, arpeggios, harmonized scales and chords.
120 Pentatonic Scales, 10 most useful scales over Major, Minor and Dominant, Chord Analysis and Extended Harmony
Numerical chord analysis, arpeggios and their inversions, Parallel Modes, Extended Tonality, Mixed Modes, Tonicization, Secondary Dominant, Excessive Tonicization, Subdominant Functions, Harmonic Process of Tonicization, Chordal Ambiguity, Harmonic and Melodic modes revisited, 120 Pentatonic Scales, 10 most useful scales over Maj, min and Dom, Standard/Rare jazz chords from The Real Book.Chord extensions and alterations to know.
45 Exotic Scales with Progressions
From basic warm-ups of the whole fretboard written out in Major, Aeolian, Major Pentatonic, Locrian, Diminished, Mixolydian, Harmonic Minor, Phrygian, Blues Major, Dorian, Minor Pentatonic, Lydian, Whole Tone and Melodic Minor to study abroad with Hungarian Minor, Balinese, Bartok, Arabian, Ethiopian Tizata Minor, Enigmatic, Iwato, Byzantine, Super Lydian, Kumoi, Locrian #2, Neapolitan Major, Neapolitan Minor, Spanish, Spanish 8-tone, Hirojoshi, Hindu, Japanese, Alt, Yo, In Sen, Bee Bop, Yona Nuki, Hungarian Major, Algerian, Persian, Symmetrical and more.
4 Intense Heavy Metal Scale’s Comparison
Whole Fretboard analysis of comparing Hungarian Minor, Persian, Neapolitan Minor and Melodic Minor with written phrase ideas to embellish, chords and their inversions, chord scales with suggested listening: Rainbow, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and solo artists such as Marty Friedman, Jason Becker and Al Di Meola.
25 artists and 25 Techniques for Improv Seeds
These self transcribed motific developments, sequences and lines are from artists such as Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Zakk Wylde, Paul Gilbert, Tony Macalpine, Eric Johnson, Andy James, Gary Moore, Glen Drover, Michael Amott, Steve Morse, Shawn Lane, Vinnie Moore, George Lynch, Greg Howe, Randy Rhoads, John Petrucci, Dimebag Darrell, Matt Heafy, Frank Gambale, Jeff Loomis, Nuno Bettencourt, Jake E. Lee and blah blah blah. The book keeps getting bigger and more difficult along the way.
35 Songwriting Techniques
The Songwriting Process as it were to study Power Progressions, Minor progressions, Mixolydian progressions, Dorian Progressions, Blues Progs, Hit Song Forms, Additional Song Sections, Downloading Appropriate Registration Forms to Register and protect your musical sketches, ideas or songs. Ascap, BMI, SESAC, The Harry Fox Agency
3 Diminished Scales Study 15 Things to Know
Introducing the 8 tone scale, Sonic Curbs of 3 modes, Usage, Artist’s phrases I’ve transcribed by Robben Ford, Randy Rhoads, Paul Gilbert, Eddie Van Halen, Vinnie Moore, Greg Howe and Steve Morse, Hexatonic synthetics, dim scale juxtaposed, hybrid or matrix sounds, Wolf Intervals, Dom chordal extensions and alterations with scales to go with.
7 Sharp Keys and Key of C Study
One & two-octave scales with 4-note arpeggio and chord that goes with each scale to commit to memory.
2 Octave 4-Note Arpeggios
Starting with finger 1 or 4 of frethand; arpeggios are to be memorized on 5 or 6 strings. The arpeggios are in run through certain Harmonized Scales for better memorization.
2- Octave Triads
Starting with frethand finger 1 or 4; triads on 5 or 6 strings to be memorized.