Don Mock Books

Learning how to play and use scales has always been a large part of every guitar player's practice schedule. Written from a player's perspective, this book doesn't get too in-depth into the history and classical theory of the scales, but focuses on their uses in contemporary styles such as blues, rock, fusion, and jazz. Includes tons of diminished and whole-tone lines, licks, and music examples; soloing and scale substitution from a player's perspective; and new sounds and ideas. Written in standard notation and tab.

This amazing three-section set of personal lessons with jazz guitar guru Don Mock features hours of personal audio instruction, play-along tracks, and demonstrations, with a complete accompanying book of music examples, exercises, and transcriptions in notation and TAB Section 1 covers the all-important, Wes Montgomery-inspired Octave Technique. Section 2 is devoted to the target tone concept, which simplifies the improvising process, enabling you to play sophisticated lines that resolve beautifully into the correct chord tones. Section 3 is devoted to turnarounds: short four-chord progressions often found at the end of tunes to setup and return to the beginning.

Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret" soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/audio packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature."

This powerful book and audio lesson will expand your knowledge of not only the familiar V" dominant 7th, but all of the secondary dominant 7ths that can be found in major and minor keys. Join Don Mock as he builds "master scales" for each dominant 7th and shows you the best voicings and the theory behind how they function. You'll also explore the subject of extensions and alterations that can be added to dominants and the two basic ways dominants operate which are "static" and "functioning." You'll play them in progressions and tunes and learn sample solos that demonstrate the correct scales, arpeggios and melodies for the various dominants. Discover why the study of dominant 7th chords will offer you the "keys to the kingdom" for truly understanding the workings of music. This one magical little chord gives music it's movement, energy and tension. Knowing how dominants work will also greatly improve your dealings with other chord types including major and minors. "