Expanding Your Soloing for the Guitarist looks at musical devices that expand the guitar player's soloing mastery and fluency. The book takes an extensive look at scale and arpeggio shapes throughout the fingerboard, and presents musical concepts that enhance and enrich one's knowledge and creativity on the guitar. Visualization of shapes is enhanced through the use of extensive fingerboard diagrams and numerous musical examples are provided. Interval relationships and matching chord types are shown for scale types, and arpeggios are related to matching scale types to gain the full benefit of the information presented. The material presented not only enhances the guitarist's knowledge and creativity, but helps improve the understanding of other materials such as solo transcriptions. For any guitarist interested in soloing expertise, the material here can be applied to any style of music.

Introduction
Combining Patterns and Shifting - Expanded Pentatonic and Blues Scales
Relocating Shapes
Combining Sounds - Modes With Pentatonic Scales
The Modular Concept For Building Solos
Navigating Through Dominant Seventh Chords
Following The Changes - Using Scales in Chord Progressions
Melodic Patterns
Rhythmic Phrasing and Frequency
Minor Sounds
Utilizing Other Sounds and Scale Choices For Chords With Alterations
Changing Register - Utilizing Symmetrical Diminished Patterns
Arpeggios and Their Use With Scales
Adding Chromatic Notes
Putting It Together
Closing