What you will learn in the
Guitar Master System:

• The 3-octave scale
• Techniques to improve your solos
• Exercises for greater speed, finger agility and strength
• Multiple scale forms and position studies
• Efficient moves over the entire fretboard
• Fundamentals of chord progression
• Right and left hand techniques
• Key modulations for smooth transitions
• Advanced fingering and picking techniques for smoother sound
• Major & Minor scales and arpeggios
• Dominant & diminish-seventh modulations

The guitar studies cover four categories:

1. Scales and arpeggios: The scale books come complete in four volumes. Each book introduces a new set of scales and arpeggios. You will learn four separate methods of playing scales and arpeggios. These are the most important and practical forms. There are other forms, but they are only variations of the four major forms. In the last section of volume two you will learn the phenomenal three octaves scale. This is the fingering of Joe Sgro. I have not seen a more practical way of fingering the three octaves scale. This will enable the guitarist to play the full range of the fingerboard. All of the music in our system is based on the scale forms and arpeggios in our four volume series. The more you are familiar with these forms, and especially the three octaves scales, the more you will appreciate and understand the fingering.

2. Exercises: The Hanon piano exercises are known the world over. I've transcribed them for guitar, and changed the key to G major. These are, indeed, the most advanced Hanon studies for guitar. You will never outgrow these studies. They can not be rushed. You are trying to build and train the muscles in your fingers, and that will take a lot of time.

3. Etude studies: Etude studies are compositions written for the sole purpose of developing and improving technique. These compositions were written by revered and eminent masters of the violin and piano. There is no such material written or composed for pick style guitar. The book "Not for Beginners" is a compilation of progressive and beautiful music written by renowned masters of the violin and piano. These studies will give you years of pleasure. This is serious music. But you will grow with the music. Other books to consider in our series is Czerny (The School of Velocity) and Hidden Treasures by the Masters. Czerny explores the higher register of the fingerboard, using chromatics and the three octaves scales.

4. Picking Technique: Most guitarists use alternate picking, which is a constant down and up stroke of the pick. Ordinarily this is fine, and the guitar does lend itself to this style of picking. But another dimension of picking must be added to alternate picking when playing music of this magnitude. Joe Sgro created a new and revolutionary picking technique that will take your performance to a new level. This picking technique is the discussion of many of the top guitarist, but few people know its principal. For example, many musical passages should begin with an up-stroke. I call this reverse alternate picking; this skill alone will greatly enhance your performance. It will automatically eliminate the complexity and difficulty of the passage. Guitar Master is the only system that teaches this phenomenal picking technique. It is very complicated to understand and perform, especially without a teacher. My purpose is only to expose you to this system, and, not necessarily to change your method.

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