Every scale, arpeggio and chord you need for the Rockschool exams

Scales and Arpeggios provide the foundation for any musician's improvisation skills and the basis for writing and performing your own music. Scales mean success and we want you to be the best you can be.

The Guitar Technical Companion is your essential reference guide and covers all the scales and arpeggios you will need to complete the technical side of Grades Debut through to 8 in guitar. Use with Rockschool Grade books to get the best results for you or your students.

Each Grade comes with a Fact File that covers fingering patterns and advice on how to the approach the exercises, alternative fingerings and what the examiners are looking for.

Rockschool - be the best you can be.

Number of pages: 93
Release date: 22nd January 2010
RRP: £10.00

Click here to buy the Guitar Technical Companion on musicroom.com

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Features:

• Fact Files
       The Fact Files provide students and teachers with a complete insight into what is required at each grade. They highlight the rubric (what is expected from the candidate in the exam) and the content. Each Fact File outlines what is new from any previous grade, provides a summary of what the student should achieve at each grade and any potential difficulties to look out for.
• Full unabridged fingerings for all the technical exercises at each grade
• Full notation TAB
• Alternative fingering for relevant grades

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FAQs:

• Q: Can the Guitar Tech guide be taken into exams?
  A: No, you can only take the relevant grade book in to your exam.
   
• Q: Will there be equivalents for Bass, Drums and Keys?
  A: RS will look to doing equivalent tech guides for Drums, Keys and Bass in 2012 in line with the new syllabuses.
   
• Q: What will the end result be after I finish each section in the book?
  A: After each section you will have knowledge of the scales, arpeggios and chord types at that grade level. This will give you the confidence to go in to your exam and relax, knowing that there won?t be any technical surprises. Having a strong technical base will also inform the rest of your playing, technical knowledge gives you the ammunition to improvise, write your own music and nail your sight reading and ear test.
   
• Q: What do I need to use this book?
  A: Guitar in standard tuning, a metronome, the relevant grade book (in order to hear the riff audio and see the rubric for the grade)
   
• Q: I am still a bit nervous about the technical side of the grades, is there any other help I can get?
  A: There are Rockschool DVDs for Guitar from Debut to Grade 3. They show the technical exercises being played, have backing tracks for all the pieces and show an exam in action so you know what to expect. Available to buy from musicroom.com