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Let’s start at the very beginning. A sequence is merely a formula. It tells you the order in which to play a certain number of notes, based on an original melody called a theme.

Sequences make it so you can write (and thus record) music very quickly! Which means you’ll save money in the studio because you’ll get the job done quicker, & crank out albums faster.

They’ll also get you past playing linear scales and arpeggios all the time, and get you to start doing something much more interesting with the interval patterns you play.

Not only that, but they're also the main tool for speed training, so if you're looking to throw amazingly fast & complex patterns into your riffs and solos, sequences are your new best friend.

Sequences not only vastly enrich your vocabulary, but ultimately make you stronger at creating great melodies, and cause you to become more organized as a writer, which in turn makes your melodies have greater impact because they all automatically go together, being derived from a common melodic theme. They’re like templates for writing melodies!

Plus, by using techniques like rhythmic offsetting, inversion, modulation, note replacement, & adapting sequences to other “shapes” & interval patterns (all of which we’ll cover in this book), you can literally come up
with endless variations!

By using and practicing sequences frequently, you’ll also be training your ears, and be able to recognize and pick out sequences when they’re used in music so you can learn by ear faster.

And in terms of theory, using sequences will get you intimately familiar with every mode of any given scale you work with, both in terms of theory as well as the physical shape the interval pattern takes on your instrument.

Plus, your hands will learn their movements throughout each scale, mode, and arpeggio that you apply sequences to, so you can play amazingly complex things on auto-pilot without losing your place on the fretboard.

Remember, sequences are just templates for melodies. Like any template, you wouldn't just use it as-is most of the time — it's just a starting point, and you'd customize it! 

You can easily customize any sequence by making even very small changes to the formula, to the ending, or any other aspect of it.

Plus, you can even combine different sequences together to make entirely new sequences, which you can then further modify however you want.

There are several sections in The Book of Sequences that demonstrate all of these methods.

The Book of Sequences can also help you improvise much more complex melodies, instead of just coming up with simple melodies one note at a time.

The more time you spend practicing sequences in their original form, the more fluent you'll be in their "language" and the more they'll become readily accessible to just play on the spot at any given moment.

And when you're composing in the studio, all that improvement in your improvisation will speed things along when you're able to record your first take and it's good enough to keep!

This book is brought to you by guitarist, composer, one-man-band and recording artist Jason Aaron Wood (Todesbonden, Ol Sonuf), and draws on his extensive experience in all of these fields and in helping his ShredMentor students get faster results in their own playing.

Of course not! While it's probably a good idea to read the introduction so you can get the most out of it, The Book of Sequences was written to be able to opened to any page at random and still give you great food for thought. (Plus, there are so many images/diagrams, there's really not that much to read!)

You sure can. Just click this link right here, and you can buy the PDF version of this book, complete with interactive links throughout the book for all of the cross-references and the table of contents, so you can find exactly what you're looking for and print any section you might need to keep handy at any time.

By all means! In fact, if you click here and enter your email, you'll get Sequences of Shred, a FREE 8-part video mini-course (over 2 1/2 hours of video in all) demonstrating the concepts in The Book of Sequences and taking them to the next level.

And of course if you want to take your playing as far as it can go and get results quickly, personal ShredMentor Training is the way to go. Not only will Jason help you 1-on-1 in your coaching sessions together, but you'll get a free copy of the ebook edition of The Book of Sequences as a member, and there's a full online video course on Sequences built into the Total Artist Development System, ShredMentor's flagship training and coaching system.

ShredMentor is the number one source for effective advanced guitar training in the world.

With 24 years in the music business, 16 years of specifically teaching metal, rock, shred, soloing, and metal composition, and teaching thousands of 100% personalized lessons and classes, Jason Aaron Wood has learned a lot about effective practice that you simply won't learn in traditional guitar lessons — and he's excited to share that knowledge with you.