Shapes, Patterns & Lines for Jazz Guitar

Jim Ferguson, one of the foremost names in jazz guitar instruction, helps you unleash the improvisational power of fingerboard shapes?utilized by many guitar greats?with this book. Material includes numerous major, minor, and dominant chord-based patterns and superimpositions, along with a host of ideas and concepts to help you assemble them into dynamic solos. Four complete solos on common song forms/progressions are included along with a 28-track CD. Standard notation and TAB.

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1) Shapes & Superimpositions ? An Introduction

Shapes Within Chords
Connecting The Dots
Shape Superimposition

2) Shapes & The Ever-Present - IIm7-V7

One-Bar IIm7-V7 Patterns
Moving To Other String Sets
More Shapes & Positions
Phrase Extension & Modification
The IIm7b5-V7

3) Progression Practice For IIm7-V7s

Circle-Based IIm7-V7s
Chromatic IIm7-V7s
Resolving To Imaj7
Putting It All Together

4) Major-Based Shapes & Patterns

One-Bar Major-Based Phrases
Moving To Other String Sets
Pattern Practice In Whole Steps
Whole-Step Pattern & Chord Progressions

5) Shapes, Patterns & Jazz Standards

?Confirmation Blues?
?Green Porpoise Street?
?Deep Blue Bossa?
?Rhythm Changes?

Notational Symbols
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