The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes: Melodic Patterns

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If you are looking for new ways to explore  the fretboard, or new sounds to investigate – the books in The GuitArchitect’s Guide To…. series are for you!

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The GuitArchitect’s Guide To Modes: Melodic Patterns 

(333 pages)

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My sonic visualization system, GuitArchitecture,  utilizes an intuitive two-string method of understanding the guitar fingerboard in a logical and concise way where seven core fingerings for major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales replace rote memorization with an intuitive overview that can be applied to any scale or modal system.

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In The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns, I’ve taken the two-string approach and created a reference book of melodic permutations that allows the reader to generate an almost infinite number of unique melodic cells and sequences.

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Applicable to guitarists and bassists, this book is an invaluable resource for both compositional and improvisational material.

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The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns

If you’ve ever looked at any instructional guitar material, you’ve probably come across some variation of the phrase, “Take this idea and transpose it to every other key”. In this book, I’ve taken a seed idea (a single two-string fingering for C Ionian) and then used a mathematical process called permutation, (which changes the sequence of how things are arranged) as a basis for creating unique melodic cells.

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This book not only details every possible permutation, but then goes on to show how to create every unique combination of them. These unique melodic cells can be used either on their own as compositional or improvisational ideas or combined with other melodic cells to create longer phrases.

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I’ve included jpegs of some of the pages from the Melodic Patterns book below.  Since the jpegs were converted from the pdf of the book, there’s some pixilation in the jpegs that is not present in the pdf but these will still give you an idea of what’s in the book. 

(Click on any graphic to see it as a larger size.)

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Print editions of this book are available individually here (lulu.com) or on Amazon (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, or amazon.fr).