Every Essential Scale & Chord You Will Ever Need (The Sliding Scale Companion Book): For Mandolin - Softcover

Ashbury, James

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798297144200

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

🎶 Every Essential Scale & Chord You Will Ever Need – For Mandolin 🎶

Every Essential Scale and Chord You Will Ever Need – For Mandolin is the complete scale and chord reference designed specifically for mandolin players. Whether you’re just starting out or an experienced player expanding your skills, this book gives you the tools to master the mandolin fretboard with confidence.

With clear chord diagrams, scale charts, and every essential pattern in all keys, this book becomes your go-to reference for practice, performance, and songwriting.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• 🎼 Chords Made Easy
  
  • Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented
  
  • Major 7th, Minor 7th, Dominant 7th, Half-Diminished
  
  • Minor/Major 7th, Major 7th #5, Diminished 7th

• 🎸 CAGFD System & Inversions
  
  • Full mandolin CAGFD system explained and mapped out
  
  • Chord inversions across the neck

• 🎶 Pentatonic Scales
  
  • Major and Minor Pentatonics
  
  • Minor/Major 7th, Dominant, Locrian Pentatonics
  
  • Other essential pentatonic variations

• 🎶 Heptatonic Scales
  
  • Major, Natural Minor, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor
  
  • Fully notated for mandolin in every key

• 🎶 Modes Made Simple
  
  • Modes of the Major, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor scales
  
  • Clear mandolin fretboard diagrams to guide your playing

• 🎹 Essential Fretboard Tools
  
  • Scale notes and degrees in all keys
  
  • Complete mandolin fretboard diagrams for quick reference
  
  • Step-by-step guidance on chord boxes and scale shapes

👉 About The Sliding Scale

The Sliding Scale is the perfect companion tool to help you quickly and confidently play in any key. It includes the four essential scales — Major, Natural Minor, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor — and helps you unlock modes, build chord progressions, and navigate the fretboard with ease. (Sold separately at www.guitarpush.com/theslidingscale.)

🌟 Why this book?

This isn’t just another chord chart. It’s a comprehensive mandolin resource that shows you how everything connects across the neck. Stop guessing, start understanding, and unlock your full potential on mandolin.

🎶 Play smarter, practice better, and explore your sound with confidence. 🎶

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798297144200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Bennett Kit