8-String Guitar Mastery: Modern Arpeggios Book: Volume One: Triads on the Extended Range Guitar

By Karl Golden

8-String Guitar Mastery: Modern Arpeggios Book - Volume One
Triads and Creative Techniques for the Extended-Range Guitarist

Welcome to the second installment in the 8-String Guitar Mastery series. After laying the groundwork in Modern Scales, this volume turns the spotlight to arpeggios, starting with the four essential triads: major, minor, diminished, and augmented. Whether you've read the first book or not, this volume stands on its own-and is packed with tools to help you play more musically and creatively across all eight strings.

This book is tailored for intermediate to advanced players who are already familiar with arpeggios and want to go deeper. Whether you're transitioning from 6- or 7-string playing, or building on ideas from the first volume, you'll find a wealth of techniques to expand your fretboard fluency and creative vocabulary.

What You'll Learn:

The four essential triads: Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented

A modified CAGED system, redesigned for 8-string triad visualization

String pair mapping to simplify triad connections

Finger tapping arpeggios across wide fretboard intervals

Sweep picking shapes and inversions for all 8 strings

Practical play-along exercises and visual diagrams

You'll also explore more advanced triads like sus2, sus4, lydian, phrygian, locrian, and sus4b5, which are excellent tools for modal soloing and unique harmonic textures. While these exotic triads don't have written exercises, the creative practice ideas introduced earlier will carry over seamlessly.

This is not a traditional step-by-step method book-it's a toolbox. Designed to help you internalize triad shapes and apply them musically, it encourages you to experiment, explore, and evolve your sound on the 8-string guitar.

Includes audio and video examples - Download audio for all exercises and stream video for all exercises to help with more visual learning and see how I apply the techniques used in the book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5B1RRGT
• ISBN13: 9798280182295
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"