The Guitar Grimoire series has been considered the ultimate method for guitarists since its launch in 1991. The Guitar Grimoire series has been considered the ultimate method for guitarists since its launch in 1991. Effective immediately, Carl Fischer Music welcomes two Guitar Grimoire titles published by Hal Leonard to the series. Stay tuned for the upcoming Guitar Grimoire Songbook, a joint project between Carl Fischer Music and Hal Leonard!
This is where it all begins. The Guitar Grimoire: Beginning Guitar is the first essential tome for every guitarist's journey, addressing the needs of novices who want to play right away without lessons or reading music and tabs. The Wizard presents 4+ hours of online video instruction with companion book, making this the perfect entryway to Carl Fischer's world-renowned House of Guitar Grimoire. Beginners will start playing chords and songs immediately, and after the first few lessons, they will be improvising and composing. Try this magical method and be amazed – it really works.
Adam Kadmon
GT227 - $21.99
This volume explores the pairing of chords and scales, laying out the compatibility between these two elements of playing in every mode, quality, and placement on the fretboard. Author Adam Kadmon demystifies chord voicings for every scale, explaining which scales are compatible with chord voicings using both standard notation and tablature. An essential book for the developing player and must-have reference for all who walk the path of the Grimoire.
The Guitar Grimoire: Scales and Modes makes harmony and theory as easy as 1, 2, 3. Best of all, scales are graphed out for you in all twelve keys so you can start using them immediately while you learn. Complete explanation of all five-, six-, seven-, and eight-tone scales and modes. This is the only book you'll ever need on scales and modes! It’s an encyclopedia with over 6,000 diagrams, charts, and graphs. The essential volume for every guitarist's library.
Carl Fischer Music's best-selling Guitar Grimoire series from Adam Kadmon has swept away all others in the world of guitar and bass pedagogy, and the new pocket-size edition makes it easier than ever for players to consult its wealth of information on the go. The new pocket-sized Carl Fischer Case Book Series now contains a guitar case-sized version of The Guitar Grimoire: Scales & Modes Volume 1. The Case Book version contains the complete contents of the original, rearranged and condensed to a more gig bag-friendly size. This volume is simply essential for guitar players, containing complete scales, modes, chords, and voicings along with thousands of diagrams, charts, and graphs; a professional reference for years of use. "Why study from an imitator when you can learn from the innovator?"
This is where it all begins. The Guitar Grimoire: Beginning Guitar is the first essential tome for every guitarist's journey, addressing the needs of novices who want to play right away without lessons or reading music and tabs. The Wizard presents 4+ hours of online video instruction with companion book, making this the perfect entryway to Carl Fischer's world-renowned House of Guitar Grimoire. Beginners will start playing chords and songs immediately, and after the first few lessons, they will be improvising and composing. Try this magical method and be amazed – it really works.
Every chord of every key and mode is presented with thousands of diagrams and charts. A unique feature shows you exactly what scale pattern to use for soloing over the chord you are playing. Includes polychords, chord substitutions, inversions, and movable voicings. This indispensable volume belongs in every guitarist's library.
Carl Fischer Music's best-selling Guitar Grimoire series from Adam Kadmon has swept away all others in the world of guitar and bass pedagogy, and the new pocket-size edition makes it easier than ever for players to consult its wealth of information on the go. The new pocket-sized Carl Fischer Case Book Series now contains a guitar case-sized version of The Guitar Grimoire: Chords & Voicings Volume 2. The Case Book version contains the complete contents of the original, rearranged and condensed to a more gig bag-friendly size. This volume is simply essential for guitar players, containing complete scales, modes, chords, and voicings along with thousands of diagrams, charts, and graphs; a professional reference for years of use. "Why study from an imitator when you can learn from the innovator?"
This volume explores the pairing of chords and scales, laying out the compatibility between these two elements of playing in every mode, quality, and placement on the fretboard. Author Adam Kadmon demystifies chord voicings for every scale, explaining which scales are compatible with chord voicings using both standard notation and tablature. An essential book for the developing player and must-have reference for all who walk the path of the Grimoire.
Progressions and Improvisations accompanies the third DVD in Adam Kadmon's Guitar Grimoire Series (DVD4). This volume encompasses the use of chords in progressions and improvisation. Filled with hundreds of exercises and diagrams in Adam Kadmon's unique and path-breaking style of presentation, this book completely examines the craft and universe of progressions. Improvisation and compositional technique are explained and interwoven to create a virtual encyclopedia of melodic and chordal possibilities, styles, dimensions, and potentials. With this book, the player will be able to put the chords, modes, and scales of The Guitar Grimoire to use in creating original music in almost any style.
This volume is the most extensive, thorough and exhaustive compendium of exercises for the guitar ever published. Adam Kadmon has placed the entire foundation of dexterity and physical technique in this one book. This book is the essential collection of proven exercises that build strength, endurance, control, and timing as assembled and created by the author of the renowned Guitar Grimoire series.
The Guitar Grimoire: The Exercise Book - Parts One & Two
Carl Fischer Music's best-selling Guitar Grimoire series from Adam Kadmon has swept away all others in the world of guitar and bass pedagogy, and the new pocket-size edition makes it easier than ever for players to
consult its wealth of information on the go. The new Carl Fischer Case Book Series now features guitar case-sized versions containing the complete contents of the original, but have been rearranged and condensed to a more gig bag friendly
size. These volumes are simply essential for guitar players, containing complete scales and modes along with thousands of diagrams, charts, and graphs; a professional reference for years of use. "Why study from an imitator when you can learn from the innovator?"
The Guitar Grimoire: The Exercise Book - Parts Three & Four
Carl Fischer Music's best-selling Guitar Grimoire series from Adam Kadmon has swept away all others in the world of guitar and bass pedagogy, and the new pocket-size edition makes it easier than ever for players to
consult its wealth of information on the go. The new Carl Fischer Case Book Series now features guitar case-sized versions containing the complete contents of the original, rearranged and condensed to a more gig bag friendly
size. These volumes are simply essential for guitar players, containing complete scales and modes along with thousands of diagrams, charts, and graphs; a professional reference for years of use. "Why study from an imitator when you can learn from the innovator?"
Adam Kadmon's phenomenal knowledge of guitar technique and popular harmony for the guitar informs every book in his highly successful Guitar Grimoire Series. Now he has created a special book just for fingerpicking
guitarists. Starting with basic fingerpicking chord patterns and expanding to major and minor scales and bass ostinato variations, Kadmon uses thousands of fingerboard diagrams, charts, and musical examples (conventional staff and tablature)
to guide and instruct the player on the best way to master the techniques of the finger-picking guitar and enhance their playing facility. Practical applications are suggested to make use of the material in the creation of original songs and
compositions. The Fingerpicking Book is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in this particular style of guitar playing.
Best selling author Adam Kadmon created a book for the most overlooked aspect of guitar playing: the technique of rhythm guitar. This book is an essential volume for every guitarist's library. A concise tool and guide to
the world of sonic textures, chordal constellations, and rhythmic cascades.
The Guitar Grimoire: A Notated Intervallic Study of Scales
A Notated Intervallic Study of Scales is designed to build on the knowledge contained in The Guitar Grimoire Scales & Modes by encouraging players to expand their ability to read music. By explaining the notation system
itself (how scales from simple Major and Minor to non-western scales such as Hungarian Minor and Neapolitan Major are constructed), author Adam Kadmon has opened the door to a world of useful information.The charts and graphs in this book
will help even the most inexperienced performer to gain mastery over the basic elements of music. The author has used the same lucid and comprehensive approach that has made all the books in the Grimoire series the talk of the music world to
help guitarists become musically literate.
This is the guitar book guitarists have needed for a long time. Kadmon created an encyclopedic compendium that contains thousands of chords, diagrams, and charts organized in the most logical manner ever employed in a
chord book. All chords from basic three note structures to elaborate tonal construction are presented.The sequence from simple to complex is designed to help the player understand the pattern and logic behind chord formations, as well as
offering the structure and fingering of all standard chords on the guitar, and will become the basic reference tool for guitar players, no matter what their orientation.
The Guitar Grimoire's introductory "mini-book" on scales and modes has all the major and pentatonic scales and relative modes and minors. A basic and concise guide to
fretboard theory and the world of music.
The Guitar Grimoire's chords & voicings "mini-book" has all the three- and four-note chords plus scale patterns for improvisation, and offers a basic and concise guide to
the theory and mechanics of chord voicings for the guitar.
This Guitar Grimoire "mini-book" introduces chord substitutions through five-, six-, and seven-note chords. Also demonstrates how to use scales to improvise against these chords.
The Guitar Grimoire Fretpad - Small
Carl Fischer Music
Guitar
GTA2 - Methods - $8.99
The Guitar (small) Grimoire Fretpads are pads of paper showing 19-fret-long guitar fretboards. This is a quick and easy way to mark down voicings, patterns, and other information you want to keep a record of. 50 sheets each, 40 fretboards per side, 3-hole punched.
200 Pages of Blank Guitar Tab Paper Sheets, Tab Lines, and Chord Boxes to equip songwriters with an excellent way to jot down guitar music ideas! Designed with a universal layout to help you while you craft your music, this journal's tablature pages have been set up with TAB lines per page that are spread apart nicely to make them easier to write your music on.
This DVD leaves no stone unturned in teaching you how to understand scales and modes in conjuction with its accompanying text, The Guitar Grimoire: Scales and Modes (GT1). Includes lessons on: The major scale, intervals, scales, modes, transposing, patterns, and pattern connection.
See and hear Adam Kadmon lay The Guitar Grimoire: Chords & Voicings (GT2) all out for you, in ways that will stun and amaze. Accompanies the Guitar Grimoire Chord & Voicings book and covers chords and compatibility, chord naming, voicing chords, harmony leads, moveable chords, and more.
The Guitar Grimoire: Progressions and Improvisation, The DVD
This DVD introduces progressions and teaches you how to use your scales, modes and chords over them in compositions and jams. Accompanies the book The Guitar Grimoire: Progressions and Improvisation (GT15). Lessons on: scale tone degrees, circle of fifths, circle progressions, scale tone degree alterations, instant song creator, improvising of 12-bar progressions, soloing within a window, soloing over diatonic and circle progressions, and soloing over scale tone degree progressions.
This professional reference tool contains thousands of diagrams, charts, illustrations, and fret board patterns along with clear and concise theory and instruction. It might just be the best bass book in the business.
A perfect introductory book and quick reference on scale and mode patterns, this "mini-book" has all the major and pentatonic scales and relative modes and minors for bass. A basic and concise guide to scale theory and honored member of the best-selling Guitar Grimoire family.
The Bass (medium) Guitar Grimoire Fretpads are pads of paper showing 24-fret-long bass fretboards. This is a quick and easy way to mark down voicings, patterns, and other information you want to keep a record of. 50 sheets each, 16 fretboards per side, 3-hole punched
The Bass Grimoire, The DVD
Carl Fischer Music
Guitar
DVD20 - Methods - $24.99
Unlock the secrets of the bass with Carl Fischer's addition to the Grimoire series, The Bass Grimoire DVD by Adam Kadmon. This DVD representation of the best-selling publication The Bass Grimoire reveals the mystery of the bass in twelve lessons ranging from The Major Scale to Scale Tone Degrees. The Bass Grimoire DVD video lays out the mechanics of bass playing right before your eyes by presenting intricate on-screen fingering patterns as well as lesson summaries. These tools allow the viewer to follow along visually while practicing and then receive a full break down of the lesson that was just taught. Carl Fischer's The Bass Grimoire DVD is for any bass player looking to improve upon their skills. The DVD is packed with invaluable lessons also serves as a practice tool. Reach your highest musical potential as taught by Adam Kadmon, a master of the bass, with The Bass Grimoire DVD.
A must-have for guitarists needing to learn keyboards for sequencing. A complete guide to keyboard theory, technique and harmonic skills for the aspiring musician. Created for the guitarist and keyboard players alike, this compendium contains all you need to know about how music is constructed.
Created for guitarists and keyboard player alike, this "mini-book" contains all the major and pentatonic scales and relative modes and minors. A basic and concise guide to scale theory, perfect for quick reference.
