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GUITAR IMPROV CHAPTER CONTENTS

This second version of the contents links to each chapter online. It can be very useful to open multiple
chapters at the same time for cross-referencing.

MELODIC IMPROV
Part 1 - Starting to Improvise
Globalizing Musical Structure and Design
How to Study this Course
Chord Diagram and Tablature Quickstart
Practice and Learning
Memorizing Fretboard Letter Names
Reading Notation
Note Sets, Structures and Design
Rhythmic Words and Comping
Speed Reading Pitch
Chord Progression by Number
Basic Chord Construction
Playing in Position
Pentatonic Scales and Octave Shapes
Blues Rock and Swing Blues Cells
Fingering Common Chords
Improv Level 1: Improv by Ear

Part 2 - Comping Design and Pentatonic Improv


Quickening Chord Changes
Learning Keys with Chord Progression
Comping Design
Twelve Bar Blues Endings
Keeping Time
Establishing a Key
Key Signatures
Pentatonic Fingering
Improv with Minor and Major Pentatonic Scales
Chromaticized Pentatonic Scales
Major Scale Fingering
Master Pentatonic and Major Scale Patterns
Spontaneous Rhythmic Phrases
Improv Level 2: Key Scale Pentatonic

©1998-2024 Jim Gleason. All Rights Reserved.


page VIII Guitar Improv and Comping Chapter Contents (top)

Part 3 - Begin to Design Solos


Intro to Improvisation
Prime Scales, Chords and Arpeggios
Triad Arpeggio Exercises
Scales for Songs in All Keys
Scale-Tone Arpeggios and Pentatonics
Full-Fretboard Chord Tones
Expressive Rhythm
Metric Phrasing
Setup and Target Phrases
Rhythmic Themes and Layers
Improv Level 3: Pentatonics and Modes
Part 4 - Thinking Chords and Modes While Improvising
Chord-Naming Conventions
All Scale-Tone Chords
Emotive Qualities of Chords and Scales
Recognizing Scale-Tone Chords
Modes
Parent Scale Improv
Key Scales, Parent Scales & Chord Scales
Constructing Chords in the Key of the Chord Root
Constructing Scale-Tone Chords by Keyscale
Fingering Arpeggios for Improv
Substitution
Secondary Dominant
Scale Ambiguity
Modal II-V-I Cadences and Turnarounds
Improv Level 4: Arpeggios
Part 5 - Core Melody
Commonality Chords
Core Melody on Triad Chord Progression
Core Melody on Quadrad Chord Progression
Core Melody Built with Duality Tones
The Melodic Curve
Theme and Variation
Bebop and Other Octatonic Scales
Six-Tone Scales
Relating Chord Tones to the Beat

©1998-2024 Jim Gleason. All Rights Reserved.


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Part 6 - Melodic Cells


Melodic Cells
Fragment Patterns
Thirds and Sixths
Double Stops
Triads with Neighbor
Quadrads with Neighbor
Chromaticized Arpeggios
Chromaticized Scales on Arpeggios
Half-Whole-Half Cells and Diminished Scale
Part 7 - Building Phrases and Sections
Full-Fretboard Major Scale Visualization
Voice Leading Improv with Arpeggio Cadences
Voice Leading Improv with Substitute Chords
Bebop Phrases
Phrases Built with Core Melody, Cell Elaboration and Filler
Core Melody with Baroque-Bebop Ornamentation
Sections Built with Phrases
Melodically Superimposed Cadences
Melodic Character and Story
The Emotive Curve and Sentiments

HARMONIC IMPROV
Part 8 - Chord Progression and Comping
Introduction to Chord Progression
Open Position Basslines
Triad Bass Harmonization
Pedal Point Chord Progression
Chord Archetypes
Scale-Tone Seventh Chord Progression
Abbreviating and Elaborating Chord Progression
Comping Strategies
Quartal and Quintal Harmony
Part 9 - Voice Leading Chords
Voice Leading
Back Cycling Chords
Top-Voice-Leading Cadences in Song Progressions
Jazz Bass Harmonization
Building Cadences with Chromaticized Bass
©1998-2024 Jim Gleason. All Rights Reserved.
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Contrary Motion
Diminished Seventh Tension
Augmented Tension

Part 10 - Summary
Building Fretboard Exercises
Major Scale Summary
Harmonic Minor Scale Summary
Melodic Minor Scale Summary
Harmonic Major Scale Summary
Summary of Chord Progression Types
Improv on Triad Chord Progression
Improv on Seventh Chord Progression
Improv by Comping Rhythm Family
Quizzes

©1998-2024 Jim Gleason. All Rights Reserved.

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