Crash Course In Scales

This indispensable theory workbook is packed with everything the intermediate-level student needs to know about scales. Pianists and non-pianists alike will benefit from the written exercises covering everything fromthe major and minor scales to pentatonic scales, modes, blues scales, s ynthetic scales and more. Concepts are explained in easy-to-understand language and are immediately applied in a variety of written exercises and performance excerpts. Topics covered include: major scales • natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales • pentatonic scales • Gregorian modes • common scales in jazz and popular music • synthetic scales (chromatic, whole tone, et. al) • and more.