Complete Book of Jazz Guitar Lines & Phrases

An important addition to the improvising jazz guitarist's library, this thoughtful blend of text and musical examples focuses on the vocabulary of modern jazz and some of the applications of modern harmony. With examples written in standard notation and tablature, Jacobs offers instruction on bebop style phrases, playing fourths, inside-outside playing, pentatonic, whole-tone and symmetrical scales, slash chords, polychords, hip lines, fingerings and much more. The companion CD presents the material in the text played with chord accompaniment.

Table of Contents

About the Author Sid Jacobs
Preface
Introduction
The Craft
More Diatonic Sequences
Smokin' A Half Note (Etude)
Idioms
Idiomatic ii or ii-V Shapes
Idiomatic V-I Resolution Shapes
Idiomatic I Major Shapes
Sample II or II-V Shapes
Sample II-V-I Lines
Some Additional Notes on the Idioms
Some Miscellaneous Bebop Style Phrases
Major 7th Lines
Miscellaneous Phrases Over Common Progressions
Another Blues in F (Etude)
May the Fourths Be With You
Triads (Fourth Triads)
The Pentatonic Scale & Fourths
Some Pentatonic Fourth Shapes
Fourths Contours and Permutations
Pentatonic Scales
Pentatonics Inside Out
The Madness -- The Method
Ideas & Examples Combining Pentatonic Sounds
Diatonic Fourths & Fifths
Fourths & Intervallic Sequences
Piccardy Fourths (Etude)
Quartal Harmony
Symmetrical Scales
The "Magic Scale" (Augmented)
Major Triads from the Augmented Scale
Minor Triads from the Augmented ("Magic") Scale
Some Augmented Scale Harmonies
The Diminished Scale
Some Diminished Scale Melodic Patterns
Diminished Scale Harmony
Whole Tone Scale
Whole Tone Scale Fingerings
Some Whole Tone Lines
The Chromatic Scale
Octave Displacement
Polychords & Slash Chords
Blues 4 Poly (Etude)
Kernels of Tomorrow (Etude)
Final Notes
Acknowledgments