Mike Stern Altered Scale Soloing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781789332230)

Master Powerful Altered Scale Guitar Soloing With Mike Stern

There has never been a jazz guitar book like this before...

Mike Stern is an electrifying guitarist whose blistering chops combine sophisticated jazz harmony with rock-fusion firepower and perfect bluesy phrasing. In this ground-breaking book, he shares his secrets of altered scale soloing and reveals the keys to his signature sound.

In his new book, Altered Scale Jazz Guitar Soloing, exclusive to Fundamental Changes, Mike teaches you in depth how to use every important altered scale on guitar to create incredible solos with his instantly recognizable sound.

You'll master modern outside-sounding jazz guitar chops using...

The Altered Scale (Super Locrian Mode)

The Mixolydian b2b6 Scale (Phrygian Dominant)

The Symmetrical Diminished Scale (Half Whole)

The Whole Tone Scale

A Complete, Practical System to Create Modern Jazz Guitar Vocabulary

Along with over 140 jaw-dropping licks and music examples, Mike's unique jazz guitar course teaches you to get insidethe scales.

You'll discover the following jazz guitar soloing concepts:

How each altered jazz guitar scale is formed

The most important scale shapes and positions to use and why

How to master the scale intervals and use them to create blistering jazz solos

Beautiful sequencing patterns that quickly become musical phrases you can use

Dozens of modern scalic licks, runs and sequences

With these essential skills under your fingers, you'll immediately apply them musically as you learn play intervallic licksover the most essential chord changes in jazz to add new depth to your soloing.

As your jazz guitar soloing skills develop, you'll add to your vocabulary by learning lines based around more advanced, musical jazz structures. You'll learnt to get creative with...

Diatonic triads

7th chord jazz arpeggio sequences

Triad/arpeggio-based melodies

Longer 8-bar jazz soloing structures

Master Altered Scale Jazz Guitar Lines With Four Epic Etudes

Each altered scale is taught in its own detailed chapter, and to round off each one you'll be taught a full-length original solo, recorded at Mike's New York studio. These solos combine all the musical approaches of each chapter into beautiful, melodic language you can use in your own playing.

This rigorous approach to learning each scale sound, combined with a vast arsenal of melodic ideas, gives you unparalleled insight into the mind of one of the most respected jazz musicians on the planet... and you'll also learn plenty of Mike's signature licks and tricks along the way

One Solo to Rule them All

To tie every altered jazz guitar scale sound together, Mike has written an epic 130-bar solo that explores every musical concept over a blistering Bb Blues.

When you learn this solo, you'll hear, internalize and feel how these advanced jazz guitar scales can be used to make powerful, attention-grabbing music.

Altered Scale Jazz Guitar Soloing is a deep dive into the musical mind of one the true jazz guitar geniuses of our generation. You owe it to yourself to check it out take your music to a whole new level of creativity.