Pianist's Guide to Scales Over Chords

Quick – how many scales do you know? If you answered several, you're not alone. Lots of piano players know several scales, but how many really know what to do with them? This book examines how scales and chords are closely linked and how this relationship is key to crafting memorable, intelligent solos. The online audio contains 178 tracks, including 15 extended backing tracks for practice! You'll learn diatonic harmony theory (intervals, scales, chord construction, etc.); major and minor scale applications; inversions and slash chords; seventh chords and extended harmony; modes (construction and applications); playing over a standard and minor 12-bar blues; and non-diatonic harmony and modal progressions. Fourteen scales are covered: major (Ionian), major pentatonic, minor (Aeolian), minor pentatonic, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Locrian, blues, harmonic minor, melodic minor, Lydian dominant, and super Locrian.