Song List:
About the Recordings / Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fundamentals
The 12-Bar Blues
Rhythm Changes
The II-V-I
Run for Your Life: A Study of Rhythm Changes
Harmonic and Melodic Analysis
Developing the Walking Bass Line
The Modes
Altered Harmony Using the Chromatic Scale
Pentatonic Scales (5-Note Scales)
Rhythmic Choices
Walking Through the Bridge
Altered Variations of Rhythm Changes
Bebop Scales
New Harmonic Ideas for Altered Progressions
Walking Bass Lines for Altered Forms
Scales for Dominant 7th Chords
Diminished and Chromatic Scale Study
Melodic Use of the Diminished Scale: "Boomtown"
Altering the Harmony for Composition
Expanding Melodic Soloing Possibilities with the Dorian Mode
Modal Ideas for the Bridge of Rhythm Changes
Practice with Chordal Arpeggios
Galileo: Ideas on the Major Scale Inspired by Jaco Pastorius
Gabriela Rose
Melodic and Harmonic Analysis of "Gabriela Rose"
The Wheel of Improvisation
