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    The world of jazz guitar is one that can be challenging, featuring a deep well of information and idea that can take years to learn. Wolf Marshall's Jazz Guitar Course is a comprehensive guide that is designed to aid you on your road to mastery. Internationally acclaimed guitarist and educator Wolf Marshall leads you through the world of harmony, melody, and improvisation in jazz, exploring concepts and techniques that utilize authentic musical vocabulary and phrases pioneered by icons of the past and present.

    Lessons include:

    • Essential Chords

    • Advanced Jazz Harmony

    • Scales and Melodic Vocabulary

    • Patterns and Ornaments

    • Phrasing and Cadences

    • Contrafacts, Etudes, and Model Solos

    The book also includes full solos built around popular, standard chord changes and forms, utilizing many of the ideas and approaches explained in the book. All of this and more is made even better by featuring top-notch recordings of each example, demonstrating exactly what you need to hear and play!

    • Over 600 Audio Tracks!

    The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code printed on page 1. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Prologue

Foreword

  • Kenny Burrell

About the Author

Introduction

  • About the Audio

Part I: Harmony

Chapter 1: Essential Jazz Chords

  • Essential Elements of Harmony
  • Essential Basic Jazz Chords
  • Basic Progressions
  • Essential Extended Jazz Chords
  • Essential Altered Jazz Chords
  • Altered Chords in Context
  • Minor-Major 7 Chords
  • Suspended Chords
  • Diminished Chords
  • Augmented Chords
  • A Tip from Wes, Kenny, Barney, and Tal:
  • Thumb Fretting

Chapter 2: Playing the Changes

  • Shell Chords
  • Shell-Chord Progressions
  • Guide Tones
  • Guide Tones and Shell Chords
  • Guide-Tone Chord Progressions

Chapter 3: Playing Blues Changes

  • Basic 12-Bar Blues in Jazz
  • Bird Blues
  • Minor Blues
  • Altered Blues
  • Altered Minor Blues
  • Listen to the Blues

Chapter 4: Inversions

  • Understanding and Hearing Tensions
  • Inversions in Progressions
  • Using Inversions
  • Chord Strategies
  • Inversions and Block Chords
  • Using Inversions in Cycle Progressions 
  • Inversions and Rootless Chords

Chapter 5: Essential Chord Progressions

  • Harmonic Formulas
  • Basic Progressions
  • Chromatic Progressions
  • Modulating Progressions
  • Cycle Progressions
  • Coltrane Changes
  • Minor Mode Progressions

Chapter 6: Advanced Jazz Harmony

  • Polychords
  • Shorthand Polychords
  • Polychords and Diminished Harmony
  • Polychord Progressions
  • Pedal Point
  • Quartal Harmony
  • Reharmonization
  • Augmented Harmony

Chapter 7: Chord-Melody

  • Chords Phrases
  • Chord-Melody Harmonization and Variations
  • Blues and Chord-Melody
  • Standards and Chord Melody
  • Walking Bass Lines and Stride-Guitar Style

Part II: Melody

Chapter 8: Essential Elements of Melody

  • Basics of Melody
  • Stepwise Motions and Scales
  • Arpeggios and Chord Tones
  • Horizontal and Vertical Melodic Motion

Chapter 9: Four Essential Jazz Sounds, Part I: The Hexatonic Sclae

  • Hexatonic Basics
  • Hexatonic Vocabulary 

Chapter 10: Four Essential Sounds, Part II: The Bebop Scale

  • Bebop Scale Basics
  • The Dominant Bebop Scale
  • The Bebop Scale and Minor Conversion
  • The Major Bebop Scale
  • Alternate Bebop Scale
  • Bebop Scale Vocabulary 

Chapter 11: Four Essential Sounds, Part III: Melodic Minor

  • Melodic Minor Basics
  • Melodic Minor and Altered Sounds
  • Melodic Minor Superimpositions and Minor Conversion
  • Melodic Minor Vocabulary 
  • Altered Dominant Vocabulary 

Chapter 12: Four Essential Sounds, Part IV: Harmonic Minor

  • Harmonic Minor Basics
  • Harmonic-Minor Tonal Melody
  • Minor-Mode Combinations
  • Minor Modes and Deceptive Cadences
  • Minor-Mode Vocabulary

Chapter 13: Blues Melody

  • Blues Basics
  • The Blues Scale
  • Blues Melody
  • Swing Blues
  • Blues Cadence Lines

Intermission

Part III: Improvisation

Chapter 14: Patterns and Ornaments

  • Patterns 
  • Patterns and Cells
  • Patterns and Sequences
  • Patterns and Ostinato
  • Patterns and Pedal Tones
  • Jazz Ornamentation
  • Melodic Targeting
  • Pattern and Approach-Tone Vocabulary

Chapter 15: Turnarounds and Back-Cycling

  • The Standard Turnaround
  • Back-Cycling
  • Turnarounds and Altered Chord Sounds
  • Turnarounds and 3rds-Related Substitutions

Chapter 16: Themes and Variations

  • Themes
  • Variations
  • Extemporaneous Melodies and Improvisation
  • Creating Variations with Turnaround Phrases

Chapter 17: ii-V-I Phrases

  • ii-V-I Phrases: Harmonic Rhythm
  • Short ii-V-I Phrases: Vocabulary
  • Working with ii-V-I Phrases
  • ii-V-I Phrases in Context: Vocabulary 

Chapter 18: The Model Solo

  • Building a Model Solo: Blues
  • Model Solos and Variations
  • Building a Model Solo: “Rhythm Changes”
  • Building a Model Solo: “Cherokee”
  • Building a Model Solo: “Take the A Train”

Chapter 19: Improvisations

  • “Autumn Leaves”
  • “All the Things You Are”
  • “On Green Dolphin Street”
  • “Manha de Carnaval”
  • “Someday My Prince Will Come”
  • “Body and Soul”
  • Octaves and Jazz Melody

Epilogue

 

 

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The world of jazz guitar is one that can be challenging, featuring a deep well of information and idea that can take years to learn. Wolf Marshall's Jazz Guitar Course is a comprehensive guide that is designed to aid you on your road to mastery. Internationally acclaimed guitarist and educator Wolf Marshall leads you through the world of harmony, melody, and improvisation in jazz, exploring concepts and techniques that utilize authentic musical vocabulary and phrases pioneered by icons of the past and present.

Lessons include:

• Essential Chords

• Advanced Jazz Harmony

• Scales and Melodic Vocabulary

• Patterns and Ornaments

• Phrasing and Cadences

• Contrafacts, Etudes, and Model Solos

The book also includes full solos built around popular, standard chord changes and forms, utilizing many of the ideas and approaches explained in the book. All of this and more is made even better by featuring top-notch recordings of each example, demonstrating exactly what you need to hear and play!

• Over 600 Audio Tracks!

The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code printed on page 1. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Prologue

Foreword

  • Kenny Burrell

About the Author

Introduction

  • About the Audio

Part I: Harmony

Chapter 1: Essential Jazz Chords

  • Essential Elements of Harmony
  • Essential Basic Jazz Chords
  • Basic Progressions
  • Essential Extended Jazz Chords
  • Essential Altered Jazz Chords
  • Altered Chords in Context
  • Minor-Major 7 Chords
  • Suspended Chords
  • Diminished Chords
  • Augmented Chords
  • A Tip from Wes, Kenny, Barney, and Tal:
  • Thumb Fretting

Chapter 2: Playing the Changes

  • Shell Chords
  • Shell-Chord Progressions
  • Guide Tones
  • Guide Tones and Shell Chords
  • Guide-Tone Chord Progressions

Chapter 3: Playing Blues Changes

  • Basic 12-Bar Blues in Jazz
  • Bird Blues
  • Minor Blues
  • Altered Blues
  • Altered Minor Blues
  • Listen to the Blues

Chapter 4: Inversions

  • Understanding and Hearing Tensions
  • Inversions in Progressions
  • Using Inversions
  • Chord Strategies
  • Inversions and Block Chords
  • Using Inversions in Cycle Progressions 
  • Inversions and Rootless Chords

Chapter 5: Essential Chord Progressions

  • Harmonic Formulas
  • Basic Progressions
  • Chromatic Progressions
  • Modulating Progressions
  • Cycle Progressions
  • Coltrane Changes
  • Minor Mode Progressions

Chapter 6: Advanced Jazz Harmony

  • Polychords
  • Shorthand Polychords
  • Polychords and Diminished Harmony
  • Polychord Progressions
  • Pedal Point
  • Quartal Harmony
  • Reharmonization
  • Augmented Harmony

Chapter 7: Chord-Melody

  • Chords Phrases
  • Chord-Melody Harmonization and Variations
  • Blues and Chord-Melody
  • Standards and Chord Melody
  • Walking Bass Lines and Stride-Guitar Style

Part II: Melody

Chapter 8: Essential Elements of Melody

  • Basics of Melody
  • Stepwise Motions and Scales
  • Arpeggios and Chord Tones
  • Horizontal and Vertical Melodic Motion

Chapter 9: Four Essential Jazz Sounds, Part I: The Hexatonic Sclae

  • Hexatonic Basics
  • Hexatonic Vocabulary 

Chapter 10: Four Essential Sounds, Part II: The Bebop Scale

  • Bebop Scale Basics
  • The Dominant Bebop Scale
  • The Bebop Scale and Minor Conversion
  • The Major Bebop Scale
  • Alternate Bebop Scale
  • Bebop Scale Vocabulary 

Chapter 11: Four Essential Sounds, Part III: Melodic Minor

  • Melodic Minor Basics
  • Melodic Minor and Altered Sounds
  • Melodic Minor Superimpositions and Minor Conversion
  • Melodic Minor Vocabulary 
  • Altered Dominant Vocabulary 

Chapter 12: Four Essential Sounds, Part IV: Harmonic Minor

  • Harmonic Minor Basics
  • Harmonic-Minor Tonal Melody
  • Minor-Mode Combinations
  • Minor Modes and Deceptive Cadences
  • Minor-Mode Vocabulary

Chapter 13: Blues Melody

  • Blues Basics
  • The Blues Scale
  • Blues Melody
  • Swing Blues
  • Blues Cadence Lines

Intermission

Part III: Improvisation

Chapter 14: Patterns and Ornaments

  • Patterns 
  • Patterns and Cells
  • Patterns and Sequences
  • Patterns and Ostinato
  • Patterns and Pedal Tones
  • Jazz Ornamentation
  • Melodic Targeting
  • Pattern and Approach-Tone Vocabulary

Chapter 15: Turnarounds and Back-Cycling

  • The Standard Turnaround
  • Back-Cycling
  • Turnarounds and Altered Chord Sounds
  • Turnarounds and 3rds-Related Substitutions

Chapter 16: Themes and Variations

  • Themes
  • Variations
  • Extemporaneous Melodies and Improvisation
  • Creating Variations with Turnaround Phrases

Chapter 17: ii-V-I Phrases

  • ii-V-I Phrases: Harmonic Rhythm
  • Short ii-V-I Phrases: Vocabulary
  • Working with ii-V-I Phrases
  • ii-V-I Phrases in Context: Vocabulary 

Chapter 18: The Model Solo

  • Building a Model Solo: Blues
  • Model Solos and Variations
  • Building a Model Solo: “Rhythm Changes”
  • Building a Model Solo: “Cherokee”
  • Building a Model Solo: “Take the A Train”

Chapter 19: Improvisations

  • “Autumn Leaves”
  • “All the Things You Are”
  • “On Green Dolphin Street”
  • “Manha de Carnaval”
  • “Someday My Prince Will Come”
  • “Body and Soul”
  • Octaves and Jazz Melody

Epilogue