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Teachers Edition
All 10 Units bound together in one book.
Retail: $52.50 (198 pages)
This method is the culmination of over 40 years of playing, performing, studying, teaching and thinking about the guitar. It begins with the most fundamental concepts of music theory, applies them to the guitar, and systematically leads the student from the Blues and Triads, through 7ths, 9ths, altered 9ths and beyond, culminating in Altered Dominant Bitonals. A rigorously systematic approach, it nevertheless is guitar-centric in its application of musical principles.
Designed to be used under a competent instructor, it is Jay's answer to the poorly designed, disorganized, "shotgun blast" approach of many of the guitar methods on the market today. Jay has maintained 60 to 90 students a week since the mid eighties and his success in this area speaks for itself. He has built and continues to add to a national network of teachers that are incorporating his books into their own programs.
This book is a goldmine of uniquely guitaristic chord voicings. The word, "unique" in the subtitle refers to a chord that is available in one position in a single key. With examples drawn from his own writing and recordings as well as popular Rock and Pop tunes, Jay leads the student from physically easy chords that can nevertheless be harmonically complex to finger stretching voicings that you've never heard before! These chords are one of the things that gives Jay's playing its own unique character. There is a multitude of chord diagrams - no note reading is required. (23 pages)
Retail: $13.68
The individual units of Vertical Truth: Chordal Mechanisms for the Guitar are available as separate books. Most of Jay's students buy the individual books as they progress through the method.
Unit 1:
The Basics
(16 pages)
Retail: $12.80
Tuning
1st Position Chords
Technique Exercises
Notes on the Dots
Add C and F to Dotnotes
Key Circle
Power Chords
Open String Power Chords
Octaves
Bar Chords
Scales
Suspended Bar Chords
1st Position Suspensions
D-Tuning
Unit 2: The Blues
(19 pages)
Retail: $14.00
The Shuffle Pattern & the 12 Bar Pattern
Minor Pentatonic Scales
Add Shifts to the Minor Pentatonic Patterns
Add Passing Tones
Minor Box & the Octave Pattern
Shifting Pentatonics
Minor Boxes in G
Blues in Open E
Turnarounds Unique to the Key of E
Blues in Open A
Dominant Blues
Minor Blues
Open String Keys, Part 2
Relative Harmony
Dorian Mode
Double Stops
Unit 3:
Triads
(22 pages)
Retail: $17:00
Theory & Major Triads
Progression #1
Progression #2
Minor Triads
Triads in Bar Chord Shapes
Diminished Triads
Augmented Triads
Scale Tone Triads in Root Position
Scale Tone Triads in 1st and 2nd Inversions
Scale Tone Triads Across the Neck
Triad Suspensions
Combined Shapes
Add Notes to the Large Triad Patterns
Triads on the 3rd and 4th String Sets
Scale Tone Triads on the 3rd and 4th String Sets
Triads in the Blues
Jimi-isms
Unit 4:
7th Chords
(24 pages)
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Note Reading
Definitions
Notation
Shapes
Scale Tone 7ths
Spelling
II-V-I
I-VI-II-V-I
I-IV-VII-III-VI-II-V-I
Altered Scale Tone 7ths
Chromatic Scale Tone 7ths &
Altered Chromatic Scale Tone 7ths
Thoughts on 6th Chords
6th Chords - Root Position and 1st Inversion - Notation
6th Chords - Root Position and 1st Inversion - Shapes
3 Position Exercises
6th Chords - 2nd and 3rd Inversion - Notation
6th Chords - 2nd and 3rd Inversion - Shapes
Thoughts on the Following Exercises
Position Exercises - 6ths
Suspensions - Notation
Suspensions - Shapes
Unit 5:
7th Inversions
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Unit 5 - 7th Inversions
7th Arpeggios - Major, Dominant, Minor - Notation
7th Arpeggios - Major, Dominant, Minor - Shapes
7th Arpeggios - Half Diminished, Full Diminished - Notation
7th Arpeggios - Half Diminished, Full Diminished - Shapes
3 Ways to View Inversions
1st Inversion - Notation
1st Inversion - Shapes
2nd Inversion - Notation
2nd Inversion - Shapes
3rd Inversion - Notation
3rd Inversion - Shapes
Position Exercise
Full Diminished 7ths
Common Tone 7ths
Four Common Key Schemes
1) Whole Tone
2) Chromatic
3) Minor 3rds
4) Cycle
Dominant Cycle
Turning the Inversion - 1
Turning the Inversion - 2
Inverted Suspensions
Unit 6:
7th Voicing
(31 pages)
[Note: Units 5 and 6 are bound together in one book.]
Unit 6 - 7th Voicing
7th Voicing
Position Exercise
Scalewise Basses
Scalewise Basses - Added Melody
Leaping Basses
Leaping Basses- Added Melody
Walking Bass Lines
Unit 7:
9th Chords
(20 pages)
Retail: $12.60
9th Chords
Adding Non-Essentials in Voiced Positions
9th Inversions
2 Other Ways to View 9th Inversions
Position Exercise
Common Tone 9ths
Dominant Cycle
6-9 Chords
Altered Dominant 9ths - Single Alterations
1) Flat 9
2) Sharp 9 - page 1
Sharp 9 - page 2
3) Dominant Sharp 5 and
4) Dominant Flat 5
Altered Dominant 9ths - Double Alterations
1) Dominant Flat 9, Sharp 5 and
2) Dominant Sharp 9, Sharp 5
3) Dominant Flat 9, Flat 5 and
4) Dominant Sharp 9, Flat 5
Dominant 9-13 Cycle
Dominant Cycle with Alterations - p.1
Dominant Cycle with Alterations - p.2
9th Suspensions
13th Suspensions
Unit 8: Bitonals
Major and Dominant
(9 pages)
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Major Bitonals
Inversions
2-Chord Patterns
Combination Pattern
Dominant Bitonals
Non-Suspended Group
Suspended Group
2-Chord Patterns
Unit 9: Altered
Dominant Bitonals
(24 pages)
Retail: $12.60
Note for Unit 9
Sharp 5
Sharp 5 - 2-Chord Patterns
Flat 9
Flat 9 - 2-Chord Patterns
Flat 9, Flat 5
Flat 9, Flat 5 - 2-Chord Patterns
Sharp 5, Flat 9
Sharp 5, Flat 9 - 2-Chord Patterns
Sharp 9
Sharp 9 - 2-Chord Patterns
Sharp 5, Sharp 9
Sharp 5, Sharp 9 - 2-Chord Patterns
Sharp 11
Sharp 11 - 2-Chord Patterns
Sharp 9, Sharp 11
Sharp 9, Sharp 11 - 2-Chord Patterns
Sharp 11, 13
Sharp 11, 13 - 2-Chord Patterns
Flat 9, 13
Flat 9, 13 - 2-Chord Patterns
Flat 9, Sharp 11, 13
Flat 9, Sharp 11, 13 - 2-Chord Patterns
Unit 10:
Bitonals - Melodic
(23 pages)
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Major - Lydian II
Major - Lydian III
Major - Lydian V
Major - Lydian VI
Major - Lydian VII
Major - 2-Chord Patterns
Dominant - Mixolydian V
Dominant - Mixolydian VI
Dominant - Mixolydian II
Dominant - Mixolydian VII
Dominant - 2-Chord Patterns
Altered Dominants
Sharp 5
Flat 9
Flat 9, Flat 5
Sharp 5, Flat 9
Sharp 9
Sharp 5, Sharp 9
Sharp 11
Sharp 9, Sharp 11
Sharp 11, 13
Flat 9, 13
Flat 9, Sharp 11, 13