Publisher: Mel Bay
Level: Intermediate
With notes and TAB

Since the arrival on the jazz scene of John Coltrane, more and more guitarists are looking to incorporate colors into their language which are more dissonant than those generally heard within the realm of jazz guitar.
Kevin Miller is also very adept at transcribing and analyzing the harmonic concepts and articulation techniques used in saxophone solos and making them palatable to guitarists.
Miller brings it all to bear in this book, for dealing with common harmonic situations within the world of jazz such as a stagnant minor chord or II-V-I. These options venture “outside” of the basic harmonic framework, but usually settle back into the core harmonic territory. The information are made accessible through numerous transcriptions of saxophone lines and techniques, Miller provides ways to internalize this material so it can be used “in an organic way while improvising".

1 - i Chord Minor Possibilities
A. Melodic Minor
B. Harmonic Minor
C. Phrygian
D. Octatonic Raga
E. Diminished (Whole-Half)

2 - Playing Off of the “V” Chord
A. Whole-Tone
B. Messiaen Mode Vi
C. Altered Bebop
D. Augmented Dominant

3 - Augmented Major7
4 - Triad/Seventh Chord Pairs
5 - Modal Progressions
6 - II-V-I Coltrane Changes
7 - 12 -Tone Lines
8 - Patterns
9 - Unison Interval Lines
10 - Unlocking the Neck
11 - Sound and Phrasing
12 - Practice Tunes
13 - 12 -Tone Bass Lines
14 - Some Improvisation Exercises
15 - Scale Syllabus

• Private Lessons Series: Coltrane Changes
• Essential Jazz Lines in the Style of John Coltrane
• Outside Sounds and Substitutions for Modern Jazz Guitar