Content :

Introduction - 1. Static Minor Triads - The Minor 7tch Chord and Arpeggio - The Aeolian Mode - The Dorian Mode - Minor Jam - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - Pentatonic Superimposition - The Harmonic Minor - The Jazz Melodic Minor - Identity Crisis - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - 2. Static Dominant 7tch Chords - The Dominant 7th Chord and Arpeggio - The Mixolydian Mode - Dorian Superimposition - Seventh Heaven - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - The Phrygian Dominant Mode - The Altered Scale - Secrets - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - 3. Static Major 7th Chords - The Major 7th Chord and Arpeggio - The Major Scale - The Major Pentatonic - Pentatonic Superimposition - Happy To Be Blue - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - The Lydian Mode - Using Pentatonic Superimposition To Create Lydian Sounds - Winter Sun - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - 4. The II-V-I - The Major II-V-I - Major II-V-I Guide Tones - Major II-V-I Arpeggios - Hitting The Changes - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - The Minor II-V-I - Minor II-V-I Licks - Creating Tension - Three Way Freeway - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - 5. The Jazz Blues Progression - The Basic Blues Progression - The Major Pentatonic - The Mixolydian Mode - The Basic Jazz 12-Bar - Sunnyside Up - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - Modulating To Chord IV - The V17 Chord - The Diminished Chord - Mr. Smith Called - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - 6. Adding Colour - The Minor 9th - The Dominant 9th - Dhe Major 9th - Using the 7th Chords To Create 9th Chords - The Dominant 11th Chord - Wake-Up Call - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - The Dominant 7th Minor 9th Chord - The Dominant 7th Augmented 9th Chord - Into Somewhere - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - 7. Time Signatures and Rhythms - The Jazz Waltz - 3/4 Comping Rhythms - Compound Time - 6/8 Comping Rhythms - Three Into Six - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - The Bossa Nova - The Jazz Samba - Double Stop Comping - The Latin Quarter - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvsation Tips - 8. Turnarounds and Rhythm Changes - The I-VI-II-V Progression - Introducing Non-Diatonic Chords - Changing Chord II To A Secondary Dominant - Replacing Chord I With Chord III - Using III7 To Create A Series Of Dominant 7ths - The Twister - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - The Minor I-VI-II-V Progression - Substituting Secondary Dominants On VI and II - Minor Detail - Checkpoint - Assignments and Improvisation Tips - Conclusion - Suggested Listening - Index - CD Track Listing