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What's in the Guitar Theory Handbook:

- Modes
- Writing Chord Progressions
- Chord/Scale Relationships
- Harmonic and Melodic Minor
- Construction of Melody
- Borrowed Chords
- Secondary Dominants
- Transposing
- Arpeggio Maps
- Scale Patterns
- Chord Disgrams
- Intervals
- Staff/Tab/Fretboard Maps

and more!

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please contact Pete.

PeterSwann@Rogers.com

GUITAR THEORY HANDBOOK
Practical Theory for the Composer and Soloist

"Pete's Guitar Theory Handbook solidly encompasses the relationship of the guitar to the vast genres, scales and musical progressions that still mystify and challenge the everyday players. This will be my go-to handbook for years to come."
- Alan Connelly, Glass Tiger

"What you’re holding in your hands isn’t a licks book, a tricks book or a how to hold your picks book. It isn’t that kind of book. What it is, is a highly detailed and deeply probing journey from the basics to the advanced theories of music and harmony, as applied to the guitar fretboard. Note by note, scale by scale, mode by mode and chord by chord Pete Swann uncovers and demystifies the reasons why music works the way it does. Believe me, there’s enough knowledge between the covers of this book to keep you busy for the rest of this lifetime and halfway through the next one.

As I read through this book, it started as an 'I knew that, I knew that...' experience. But as the pages turned, even the most knowledgeable musician would start to say, 'well I knew that too, but I wasn’t aware of where that came from', or 'now I’ve never thought of it that way before'. By the time I got to the Chords Within Chords section my imagination started firing. Likewise on subjects like Tritone Substitution, the Harmonic Qualities of Intervals and the Blorian scale. Soon I was saying, 'now I never knew that' and 'there’s an inversion I’ve never encountered and so that’s how that works!'

Note by note, scale by scale, mode by mode and chord by chord Pete Swann uncovers, demystifies and unclouds the reasons why music works the way it does. It's laid out in a clear and logical manner. Believe me, there’s enough knowledge between the covers of this book to keep you busy for the rest of this lifetime and halfway through the next one. I had to stop because so many neurons were firing that my head was getting itchy. I had to take a break and get a piece of Piella Mode."
- Wendell Ferguson, multiple Juno and multiple CCMA Guitar Player of the year winner