The Book & The System
The method I wrote after fourteen years of teaching: scales, modes and chords as one connected system instead of shapes you memorise and forget. The book is below, and so is everything I give away free.
The whole method is about this hand knowing where it is.
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The foundation volume. Five families, five colours, one root — the whole fretboard as a single map a first-week beginner can read on sight. 400+ original diagrams, built and tested on real students.
Five more volumes are in progress: Dead Sea Chords, The Else World, The Hexatonic / Pentatonic Decoder, Dead Sea Scales for Beginners, and Rules of the Road.
Everything above runs on one idea: five families, five colors, one root. These are the maps the books teach from.
The five families. One color each — Melodic, Blues, Quest, Harmonic, Bebop — around the parent scale.
The Dyad Map. Thirteen behaviors measured from one root, each interval named for what it does.
Steps, notes and intervals on a single axis — why a key holds seven notes and leaves five outside.
Four wall charts, free to download and print. Print-ready PDFs, each one a true 24 × 16 inches at 300 DPI — hand one to a print shop and it comes back full size, no scaling. Key of F major throughout, same colors as the books.
All seven diatonic modes of F next to their hexatonic and pentatonic reductions, plus the five CAGED shapes with their pentatonic position numbers. Bb Lydian and E Locrian are left blank on purpose — their roots are the notes being removed.
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The Extended Family Modes chart. Most players learn seven modes and stop — this maps the rest of the family, all five across all seven modal roots. Melodic, Blues, Quest, Harmonic and Bebop, each one a single moved note away from the parent scale — A becomes Ab and you are in F melodic minor, C becomes C# and D Aeolian becomes D harmonic minor.
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The Else World. The same 35 shapes moved the other direction — what happens once the familiar shapes run out. Where the Modes poster flattens, this one sharpens: F becomes F#, G becomes G#, Bb becomes B. Same five families, mirrored.
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Guitar and five-string bass necks through fret 24, an 88-key piano, and the grand staff — all on one color-coded octave scale, with every enharmonic pair and its frequency. B0 at 30.87 Hz up to C8 at 4,186 Hz.
Download — PDFI also built two browser tools that render every mode and position live — Just Play for jamming and Decoder+ for studying. Both run free over at DeadSeaScales.com, along with the rest of the series.
