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ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
INTRODUCTION |
CHAPTER 1 -- RIGHT HAND OPTIONS |
Pick Style |
Fingerstyle Chords |
Pick and Fingers Technique |
CHAPTER 2 --COMBINING MELODY AND HARMONY |
Lesson 1: Recognizing Chord Tones |
Lesson 2: Guidelines for Arranging |
Lesson 3: Chord Enhancement |
Home on the Range |
CHAPTER 3 -- TECHNIQUES FOR HARMONIZING NON-CHORD TONES |
Lesson 1: Diads |
Blue Bell of Scotland |
Lesson 2: Adding the Non-Chord Tone |
Beautiful Dreamer |
Lesson 3: Voice Leading |
Lesson 4: Passing Chords |
Virginny |
Blues in G |
Diminished Chords |
mi7 flat 5 (Half-Diminished) Chords |
Blues in F |
Lesson 5: Quartal Harmony |
Single Notes |
Octaves |
CHAPTER 4 --ENHANCING CHORD PROGRESSIONS |
Lesson 1: Passing-Chord Approaches |
Lesson 2: The IV-I Approach |
Lesson 3: The V7-I Approach |
Lesson 4: The ii-V7-I Approach |
Rum and Coke |
Lesson 5: Backcycling Approaches |
Lesson 6: Tritone Substitution Approach |
Lesson 7: The Flat V7-I Approach |
Lesson 8: The ii-V7-I and Alternate Cycles |
Lesson 9: Surprise Chords |
CHAPTER 5 -- SIMULTANEOUS CHORDS AND WALKING BASS LINES |
Lesson 1: The Basic Voicings |
Lesson 2: Bass Lines---Scalewise Approach |
Lesson 3: Bass Lines---Half-Step Approaches |
Lesson 4: Bass Lines---Rhythm |
Lesson 5: Bass Lines ii-V7-I Patterns |
Everything You're Not |
Lesson 6: Bass Lines---Combining Techniques |
Accompaniment for Everything You're Not |
CHAPTER 6 -- SEARCHING OUT NEW VOICINGS |
Lesson 1: Moving Voices |
Lesson 2: Symmetrical Chord Movement |
Coda 1---A Medley of Suggestions and Musical Concepts for Chord-Melody Playing |
Creating Arrangements |
Listening to the Greats |
Reality Check |
Byesville |
CHAPTER 7 -- IMPROVISING OVER ALTERED DOMINANT CHORDS |
Lesson 1: The Diminished Scale |
Train |
Lesson 2: The Whole Tone Scale |
Once |
Lesson 3: The Super Locrian Mode (Diminished Whole Tone Scale) |
Moon |
Lesson 4: Using the Altered Scale Over a ii-V7-I Progression |
Lesson 5: Targeting the Altered Chords---The Altered Clusters |
Lesson 6: Revamping Licks |
CHAPTER 8 -- THE MINOR SCALES AND THEIR MODES |
Lesson 1: The Melodic Minor Scale |
Lesson 2: The Modes of the Melodic Minor Scale |
Lesson 3: Arpeggios in the Melodic Minor Scale |
Lesson 4: The Harmonic Minor Scale |
Lesson 5: The Modes of the Harmonic Minor Scale |
Lesson 6: Arpeggios in the Harmonic Minor Scale |
Lesson 7: The ii mi7 Flat 5-V7 Flat 9-i mi7 Progression |
CHAPTER 9 -- USING ARPEGGIOS |
Lesson 1: Chord Superimposition |
Lesson 2: Melodic Patterns Based Around Arpeggios |
Lesson 3: Melodic Patterns Based Around Chord Shapes |
CHAPTER 10 -- EIGHT-TONE SCALES |
The Eight-Tone ii-V7 Scale |
The Eight-Tone I Scale |
CHAPTER 11 -- CONNECTING YOUR IDEAS |
Lesson 1: The Chromatic Connection |
Lesson 2: Accentuating the Difference Between Keys |
Lesson 3: Repeating an Idea in Different Octaves |
Lesson 4: Rhythmic Motives |
Lesson 5: Melodic Connection |
Lesson 6: Diatonic Connection |
Coda 2---A Medley of Suggestions and Musical Concepts for Improvisation |
Playing on the Extensions Using Advanced Pentatonics |
Playing on the Extensions Using Tones from 13 Chords |
Playing with Wider Intervals |
Octave Displacement |
Symmetrical Motives |
Conclusion |