Capone, P: Exploring Jazz Guitar

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Static Minor Triads
• The Minor 7tch Chord & Arpeggio
• The Aeolian Mode
• The Dorian Mode
• Minor Jam
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• Pentatonic Superimposition
• The Harmonic Minor
• The Jazz Melodic Minor
• Identity Crisis
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• 2. Static Dominant 7tch Chords
• The Dominant 7th Chord & Arpeggio
• The Mixolydian Mode
• Dorian Superimposition
• Seventh Heaven
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• The Phrygian Dominant Mode
• The Altered Scale
• Secrets
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• 3. Static Major 7th Chords
• The Major 7th Chord & Arpeggio
• The Major Scale
• The Major Pentatonic
• Pentatonic Superimposition
• Happy To Be Blue
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• The Lydian Mode
• Using Pentatonic Superimposition To Create Lydian Sounds
• Winter Sun
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & 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 & Improvisation Tips
• The Minor II-V-I
• Minor II-V-I Licks
• Creating Tension
• Three Way Freeway
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & 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 & Improvisation Tips
• Modulating To Chord IV
• The V17 Chord
• The Diminished Chord
• Mr. Smith Called
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & 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 & Improvisation Tips
• The Dominant 7th Minor 9th Chord
• The Dominant 7th Augmented 9th Chord
• Into Somewhere
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• 7. Time Signatures & Rhythms
• The Jazz Waltz
• 3/4 Comping Rhythms
• Compound Time
• 6/8 Comping Rhythms
• Three Into Six
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• The Bossa Nova
• The Jazz Samba
• Double Stop Comping
• The Latin Quarter
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvsation Tips
• 8. Turnarounds & 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 & Improvisation Tips
• The Minor I-VI-II-V Progression
• Substituting Secondary Dominants On VI & II
• Minor Detail
• Checkpoint
• Assignments & Improvisation Tips
• Conclusion
• Suggested Listening
• Index
• CD Track Listing