Contents:

Volume Three:

• Sweep-picking, back-picking, playing triplets with pick and fingers, and how you can apply these techniques
• Rhythm guitar playing, ie. with plectrum; Brazilian-oriented fingerstyle techniques
• Chords and bass lines in four-beat jazz using just the fingers
• Comping on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps"
• How to solo over "Giant Steps" using harmonic "shortcuts" and unorthodox chord changes
• Reharmonization of both the melody and so-called "blowing" changes when they differ from the melody changes
• Complete transcription of both melody and reharmonized "blowing" changes for Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Porkpie Hat," plus tips on improvising ideas
• Defining characteristics of advanced improvisation