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