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I will use this place to post reviews and more news. Here's the first installment: a Guitar Player Magazine review of my book "The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium"
Web Exclusive! Reviewed: The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium
Music educator and totally badass progressive guitarist Scott McGill’s book may be the last word on strung-out notes.
Web Exclusive! Reviewed: The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium
Music educator and totally badass progressive guitarist Scott McGill’s book may be the last word on strung-out notes.
Despite its title, this 75-page instructional and reference book is much more than an exhaustive collection of arpeggios. McGill—who is the Course Coordinator at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music—doesn’t just tell you which notes are called what, as most books of this type do, he teaches you how to deploy the concepts musically in a very concise and logical way. Among the many topics covered are scales derived from arpeggios, two-note-per-string arpeggios, open-string arpeggios, arpeggios with harmonics, triad inversion arpeggios, and polytonal and quartal arpeggios. There’s also a section on exotic and synthetic scales. The book is structured so that it may be read sequentially, or as a collection of essays on individual topics, making it easy to access just the material you are interested in at the moment, and put it to use making music immediately. Visit scottmcgill.com to view sample pages, or to download a PDF copy, and take a few minutes to check out McGill and his music while you are there. —Barry Cleveland
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ReplyDeleteHello everyone, We are in the process of beginning work on the new Jones McGill DeCarlo disc featuring Bassist Percy Jones (Brand X), Scott McGill (FreakZoid/McGill Manring Stevens) and Ritchie DeCarlo (FreakZoid/Ritchie Kotzen). We are asking you to check out our KickStarter Campaign for the new disc! Here is the link to the video:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1538085815/percy-jones-scott-mcgill-ritchie-decarlo-2013
You can become an Executive Producer, name one or more of our tunes, get unreleased material and downloads, and become involved in the project as much as you want. We hope to hear from you soon and check us out on FaceBook Pages as well:
Scott McGill: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000392120982
Ritchie DeCarlo:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002419885022
Thank you and as always, thank you for your support! Jones McGill DeCarlo/FreakZoid