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About the Author.................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction 5
Tablature ................................................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 1:

Introducing Triads....................................................................................... 6
Triad Formulas and Inversions............................................................................................. 6

Chapter 2: Triads on the Guitar................................................................................. 9

Triads on Adjacent Strings.................................................................................................... 9

Triads on Non-Adjacent Strings........................................................................................ 12

Chapter 3: Triad Chord Scales ................................................................................. 16

Chapter 4: Four-Note Chords................................................................................... 18

6th Chords............................................................................................................................. 18
A Word About Comping..................................................................................................... 21
7th Chords............................................................................................................................. 22

Chapter 5: Expanding Your 7 Chord Vocabulary.............................................. 26

Inversion/String Set System................................................................................................ 26

Drop Voicings......................................................................................................................... 30
7th Chords in Drop 2 and Drop 3 Voicings................................................................... 31

Chapter 6: Lead Sheets, Abbreviated Voicings

& Diatonic Harmony......................................................................................................... 34

Lead Sheets ............................................................................................................................ 34

Jazz N Java......................................................................................................................... 34
Abbreviated Voicings............................................................................................................ 35
Jazz N Java Abbreviated.................................................................................................. 37
Working With Diads............................................................................................................ 37
Jazz N Java Diads............................................................................................................. 39
Diatonic Harmony................................................................................................................ 39
Diatonic Harmony In Minor Keys..................................................................................... 41

Chapter 7: The iiV7I and Analyzing Chord Progressions...................... 43

The iiV7I Progression.................................................................................................... 43
Voice Leading......................................................................................................................... 44
Voice Leading with Abbreviated Voicings......................................................................... 46
Analyzing Chord Progressions.......................................................................................... 47
Jazz N Java Analysis.......................................................................................................... 49
Chapter 8: Adding Extensions to Chords............................................................ 50

9th Chords............................................................................................................................. 51
11th Chords.......................................................................................................................... 52
13th Chords.......................................................................................................................... 53
Add 9 and Sus Chords........................................................................................................ 54
ii-V7-I Chord Vocabulary Exercise................................................................................... 55
Jazz N Java A..................................................................................................................... 56
Jazz N Java B..................................................................................................................... 56

Jazz N Java C..................................................................................................................... 57
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Chapter 9: Altered Chords............................................................................................. 58

Altered Dominant Chords................................................................................................. 59

Altered Major and Minor Chords.................................................................................... 63
More About Altered Chords.............................................................................................. 65
Jazz N Java (Altered #1)................................................................................................. 67
Jazz N Java (Altered #2)................................................................................................. 68
Jazz N Java (Altered #3)................................................................................................. 68
Building Altered Sounds from Tritones............................................................................ 69
Symmetrical Chord Movement......................................................................................... 71

Chapter 10: Other Important Concepts.............................................................. 73

Turnarounds........................................................................................................................... 73
The Dominant Cycle........................................................................................................... 74
Backcycling............................................................................................................................. 75
Diminished Passing Chords................................................................................................ 76
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Tritone ( 5) Substitution...................................................................................................... 76
Half-Step Dominant Approach Chords........................................................................... 77
Blues Progressions............................................................................................................... 77
Rhythm Changes................................................................................................................... 79
Clusters.................................................................................................................................. 80
Quartal Harmony (and Inversions).................................................................................. 82
Dealing with Slash Chords................................................................................................. 84
Working with Upper Structures....................................................................................... 85

Chapter 11: Reharmonization..................................................................................... 86

Symmetrical Bass Line Approach...................................................................................... 86

Jazz N Java with Symmetrical Bass Line...................................................................... 86
Jazz N Java with Reharmonization............................................................................... 87
Scale-Wise Bass Lines.......................................................................................................... 88
Jazz N Java on the F Major Scale.................................................................................. 88
Random Chords................................................................................................................... 88
Random Jazz N Java........................................................................................................ 88
Pedal Point............................................................................................................................. 89
Jazz N Java with Pedal Point.......................................................................................... 89
Coltrane Changes................................................................................................................. 90
Coltrane Changes............................................................................................................. 90
Jazz N Coltrane Java....................................................................................................... 91

Appendix: Transposing....................................................................................................... 92

Individual Chords.................................................................................................................. 92
Chord Progressions............................................................................................................. 94

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A compact disc accompanies this book. Using this disc will help make
learning more enjoyable and the information more meaningful. The CD
provides you with the sounds of many of the books examples. Track 1 will
help you tune to this CD. Have fun!

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