Every Essential Scale & Chord You Will Ever Need (The Sliding Scale Companion Book): For Piano, Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Banjo & Mandolin - Softcover

Ashbury, James

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798315081098

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

🎵 The Complete Scale & Chord Reference for Six Instruments 🎵

Every Essential Scale and Chord You Will Ever Need is the ultimate all-in-one guide for piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, and mandolin. Designed as the perfect companion to The Sliding Scale (sold separately), this book gives you a complete foundation in music theory, chords, and scales — in every key.

Whether you’re a beginner learning your first chords or an experienced musician exploring new sounds, this book will become your go-to reference for practice, performance, and songwriting.

✨ Inside, you’ll discover:

• 🎸 Chords for Every Instrument
  
  • Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented
  
  • Major 7th, Minor 7th, Dominant 7th, Half-Diminished
  
  • Minor/Major 7th, Major 7th #5, Diminished 7th

• 🎼 CAGED & Inversions Explained
  
  • Full CAGED system for guitar, ukulele, banjo, mandolin, and bass
  
  • Piano inversions for every chord type

• 🎶 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 all six instruments in every key

• 🎶 Modes Made Easy
  
  • Modes of the Major, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor scales
  
  • Clear diagrams for piano and stringed instruments

• 🎹 Essential Tools
  
  • Scale notes and degrees in all keys
  
  • Complete fretboard diagrams for guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, and mandolin
  
  • Piano note charts for instant reference
  
  • How to read music on the stave
  
  • How to read piano boxes and chord boxes

👉 About The Sliding Scale

The Sliding Scale is the perfect tool to help you quickly and confidently play in any key, with the scales and chords right at your fingertips. It includes the four essential scales — Major, Natural Minor, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor — and unlocks modes, chord progressions, and effortless fretboard navigation.

(Sold separately at www.guitarpush.com/theslidingscale.)

🌟 What makes this book unique?

Featuring all six instruments throughout, you can transfer your skills seamlessly. Start on guitar, expand into ukulele, or deepen your bass playing with piano — it all connects.

🎶 Stop guessing. Start playing with confidence — on any instrument. 🎶

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798315081098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297
• Editor: Bennett Kit