We are the music makers,
We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

A. O' Shaugnessy.

IMPROVISATION TECHNIQUE

CHORD CONSTRUCTION
Chord Symbols
Major And Minor Triads
The Major And Minor Sixth
The 7th Chord
Upper Extensions

ALTERED CHORDS
The Augmented Chord
The Lydian Chord
The Minor )7
Altered 9th Chords
The Half Diminished Chord
The Diminished Chord

SCALES: THEIR DERIVATION AND USE
Table Of Modes
Diatonic Seventh Chords
The Ionian Mode
The Jazz Major Scale
The Dorian Mode
Other Possibilities Within The Dorian Mode
The Dorian Scale Over The V7 Chord
The Phrygian Mode
The Lydian Mode
The Mixolydian Mode
The Bebop Scale
The Aeolian Mode
The Locrian Mode

THE BLUES
The 12 Bar Blues
The Blues Scale

BALLAD PLAYING
The Melody
Interpreting The Melody
The Lyrics
Incorporating The Lyrics
Ballad Keys

JAZZ ARTICULATION
Syncopation
Swing Feel
Notation
Bebop And 'Scat' Phrasing
Tonguing Techniques
Single Tonguing
The 'Two And Four'
Double Tonguing
Triple Tonguing
Vibrato
Vibrato Technique 

APPENDIX A: SYMBOLS
APPENDIX B: INTERVALS
APPENDIX C: CYCLES OF FOURTHS/FIFTHS
APPENDIX D: MODES

See 'The Jazz Flute' volume II - Back