Welcome to the website for Castalia’s line of educational posters. This site is designed to showcase our main line and is focused on educational items combining graphics and art that Put the Answers on Your Wall! These are mostly posters, and except for the Eight Ball Poster, all are for musicians and music education. (Links to our other products and related sites are in the column on the right.)
The Guitar Poster™
Size 24″36″; Price: $19.99; LAMINATED TO LAST, $29.99
The Guitar Poster™ has answered guitar players’ questions since it was first published in 1980. Today, it is still the most complete guide to the guitar ever made!
It’s a roadmap to harmony for any guitar player, even if you don’t read music. It contains a wealth of information for all guitar players, no matter what your style of play or your level of musical accomplishment. Not only will it help you, it will help you explain things to your kids or your bandmates.
* C-A-G-E-D SYSTEM OF MOVABLE CHORD & SCALE FORMS * CHORD & SCALE TABLE * TABLE OF KEYS * NOTES OF THE NECK * BASIC CHORDS * OPEN TUNINGS * CIRCLE OF FIFTHS * GREAT STAFF * MORE!!
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The Keyboard Poster™
Size 24″36″; Price: $19.99; LAMINATED TO LAST, $29.99
The Keyboard Poster™ is a beautiful work of educational art that makes visualizing and applying the principles of harmony as easy as DO RE MI. The easy-to-use music theory on the poster is for piano, organ, synthesizers, and all other keyboard instruments.
* FOUR OCTAVE LIFE SIZE KEYBOARD * BASS & TREBLE KEY SIGNATURES * TABLE OF KEYS * CHORD & SCALE TABLE * TWELVE MAJOR SCALES * BASS & TREBLE CIRCLES OF FIFTHS * MORE!
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The Rock Guitar Poster™
The totally radical Rock Guitar Poster™ (©1984) shows how to play the hard rock and heavy metal lead and rhythm guitar like everybody’s favorite rockers. It explores rock styles in great detail, explaining the chords, scales, and the guitar techniques for rock and heavy metal.
* MOVABLE MINOR PENTATONIC ROCK SCALE FORMS * POWER CHORDS * NOTES OF THE NECK * TWO HAND TAPPING * WHAMMY BAR * METAL TIPS & TECHNIQUES * MORE!
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The Electric Bass Poster™
Size 24″36″; Price: $19.99; LAMINATED TO LAST, $29.99
The Electric Bass Poster™ features a classic collection of vintage bass guitars and will show you how to play hot bass and how to hold down the rhythm section in any band playing today’s popular music.
* BASS KEY SIGNATURES * TUNING GUIDE * BASS HARMONICS * COMMON CHORDS & SCALES * INTERLOCKING PENTATONIC SCALE FORMS * HOW TO ALTER SCALES & ARPEGGIOS * IMPROVISING A BASS LINE * MORE!
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The Saxophone Poster™
Size 24″36″; Price: $19.99; LAMINATED TO LAST, $29.99
The Saxophone Poster™ (©1993) will help players at every stage of their musical development. It has the world’s all-time best sax fingering chart, a complete cross reference system for music theory, and it teaches any player to solo by showing how to play the blues.
* FINGERING CHART* TREBLE CLEF * TABLE OF KEYS * CHORD & SCALE TABLE * CIRCLE OF FIFTHS * PRACTICE TIPS * SAX EFFECTS & TECHNIQUES * TRANSPOSING FOR SAXOPHONE * BUILDING & IMPROVISING SOLOS!
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The Music Theory & Transposing Poster™
Size 24″36″; Price: $19.99; LAMINATED TO LAST, $29.99
The Perfect Teaching Aid For All Music Educators
The Music Theory & Transposing Poster™ (©2012) is a handsome reference chart that makes understanding, teaching, and using music theory as easy as DO-RE-MI. The poster is designed for all musicians, music teachers, arrangers, songwriters, band leaders, choir directors-anyone with an interest in playing music and understanding the principles of harmony and how it works.
Music educators at last have a complete, easy-to-understand reference for music theory that will help their students comprehend how music works and apply what they have learned. This new poster is a must for every school music room as well as for teaching, recording, and rehearsal studios.
In addition to fundamentals such as Key Signatures, the Circle of Fifths, and the Great Staff, the poster shows, in easy-to-understand graphics, how harmony works. Castalia’s famous Table of Keys™ and Chord and Scale Table™ use a system of numbers based on the tones of the major scale (DO-RE-MI=1-3-5 etc.) to represent the notes of scales and chords (the Universal Key). The system shows the notes for all chords and scales as well as which scales are commonly played with which chords to get the characteristic “sounds” of all styles of popular music, from classical to rock, county, blues, Latin, folk, pop, and jazz.
The poster’s cross-reference system makes transposing songs and scores quick and easy even for those who do not read music. It also shows how to write chord charts and transpose progressions using the “Nashville System” (in which Roman Numerals are used to represent chords) which is used by professional studio musicians everywhere.
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The Circle of Fifths mini-Poster
Size 18″24″; Price: $19.99; LAMINATED TO LAST, only $29.99
This beautiful Circle of Fifths mini-Poster (©2008) is an enlargement of the famous “Guitar Player In The Clouds” from the original Guitar Poster. As a teaching device the Circle of Fifths is the most widely used graphic tool in music education, so this gorgeous print will be used and appreciated by all music lovers and teachers and musicians of all kinds, no matter what instrument they play.
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The Rules of Eight Ball Poster™
Stops disputes before they begin!
Size 24″36″; Price: $19.99 ; LAMINATED TO LAST, $29.99
The Eight-Ball Poster™ is a big beautiful work of educational art and our only non-musical poster. The painting, “Who’s Next?” by artist Robert Butters (who also did the paintings for the Guitar, Keyboard, Rock Guitar and Saxophone posters), depicts an 1890’s billiard parlor when pool was known as a “gentleman’s game.” A portrait of Mark Twain, the era’s most enthusiastic player, observes the game from the wall. The poster explains common billiard terms and the game of Eight-Ball and why there are so many variations in the rules. It fully details the “official” Billiard Congress of America tournament rules as well as the most common “house rules” and explains how they differ. This beautiful piece of educational art will tastefully decorate any room and help stop disputes over the rules before they ever begin. Great for billiard parlors, social halls, bars, recreation rooms–anywhere there’s a pool or billiard table.
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OTHER MUSICAL AIDS
Leadmaster™ Fretmarkers
Only $10.99 per set
Play way better, way faster!
For many guitar players the logic of the guitar neck is hard to visualize when playing lead. LEADMASTER fret markers solve this problem by removing any doubt about which notes you should be playing.
Set #1. Notes of the Neck
Set #2. C major & A minor & modes of the Key of C
Set #3. A minor pentatonic & C major pentatonic
Set #4. E minor pentatonic & G major pentatonic
WHICH SET IS RIGHT FOR ME?
Beginner & Intermediate Players: The best place to start is with the most widely played scale, the minor pentatonic, which is used in upwards of 70% of all popular music. (Sets #3 or #4.) From Albert King to Chuck Berry to Van Halen, this scale is the guitar player’s workhorse. This one you GOTTA know! It is a relatively simple five-note scale that is used in blues, rock ‘n’ roll, country, everywhere. TIPS: When soloing, the most important note in any scale is the keynote. It’s your home base. Come back to it often. You can use it to start a phrase and almost always to end on. Minor Pentatonic: To spice up your solos, try bending the “4” (the 3rd note in the minor pentatonic scale). Major Pentatonic: Used in at least 40% of popular music-country, blues, R&B, southern rock. Play across the fretboard, or move diagonally.
Advanced Players: With Sets #1 and #2 you can check out the sounds of the modes. (For a complete listing of the modes and other scales see our Chord & Scale Table.) Major Scale: This is the most widely known scale of them all (DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO.) The modes are created by playing the same notes of the major scale but starting on a different note. Each mode has its own distinctive sound. In the Key of C: C Major: Major scales are often said to have a “happy” sound. D dorian: For playing over minor chords, it can have a Latin/jazz sound. E phrygian: For a dark sound (metal minor). F lydian: For a major 7th jazz sound. G mixolydian: Play over 7th type chords in funk, jazz, swing, bluegrass, hot country. A aeolian (A minor): This is the “relative minor” and is often said to have a sad sound. Used in classical, folk, pop and hard rock by everyone from J.S. Bach to Randy Rhodes. B locrian: Play over minor 7 flat 5 chords. Very dark sound.
WHAT’S YOUR GOAL? When you put on a set of LEADMASTER fret markers your goal should be simple: practice the scales and learn the patterns, so when you take them off you won’t miss a lick. REMEMBER: every scale pattern you learn can be moved to other frets so you can play in other keys!
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Music Theory and Transposing Folder
Take the Answers with You!
“It’s like having Juilliard on a card!” Only $10.99
Prop it up on your piano or slip it into your guitar case.
From DO RE MI to the mixolydian mode, this handy music theory and transposing guide has it all, combining the Key Signatures, the Circle of Fifths, the Great Staff, and our famous Table of Keys(TM) and Chord & Scale Table(TM). It shows you all the formulas for all the chords and scales used in popular music as well as which scales to play over which chords in all styles of music. It is also the best transposing tool ever made, showing how to write chord charts with Roman Numerals in the famous “Nashville System” used by studio professionals. It is the perfect music theory teaching tool and reference for all students, teachers, arrangers, composers, band leaders, and songwriters. It has the same exact information as the Music Theory Poster but in a handy, portable format.
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