Song List:
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Chapter 1: Improvise with the Whole Tone Scale
Examples
The Water Fall
Augmented Chords with Whole-Tone Scales
Chapter 2: Chords and Roman Numerals
Every Chord in Every Key
Dominant 7 - Tonic in Every Key
Chapter 3: The Scale Used as a Fill
Every Major and Minor Scale
Examples of Two-Beat Fills
Chapter 4: Chimes
Harmonic Intervals
Examples of Chimes
Chapter 5: The A B C's of Improvising
A. Notes Remain the Same
B. Notes Step
C. Notes Skip
Chapter 6: Right-Hand Whole Measure Fills
Examples of Whole Measure Fills
Four-beat Fills in Every Key
Three-beat Fills in Every Key
Chapter 7: Left-Hand Patterns in 3/4 Time
Amazing Grace
Brahms Lullaby
Patterns in 3/4 Time in Twelve Keys
Chapter 8: Left-Hand Patterns in 4/4 Time
Shenandoah
Patterns in 4/4 Time in Twelve Keys
Chapter 9: Faster Left-Hand Patterns in 4/4 Time
Patterns in faster 4/4 Time in Twelve Keys
Chapter 10: Special Effects
Broken Chords
Chromatic Patterns
Diminished Scales
Secondary Sub-Dominant Chords
Dominant and Sub-Dominant Arpeggios
Major-Seven Chords Voiced
Turnarounds
Substitution Chords
Dominant to Tonic using the Blues Scale
Review
Chapter 11: Chord Progressions
Right-Hand Add 9 Fill
Chord Progressions in Twelve Major Keys
Right-Hand Patterns in Twelve Keys
Twelve-Bar Blues Patterns
More Right-Hand Patterns in Twelve Keys
Chapter 12: Faster Right-Hand Riffs
The Twelve-Bar Blues Progression (example)
Twenty-four faster fills for the right hand
Chapter 13: Minor Chord Patterns and Progressions
Chord Progression
Improvisation
Twenty-four Minor Right-Hand Patterns in Twelve Keys
Chapter 14: Improv with the Left-Hand (Fills for Roman Numeral Bass Progression)
Four Chord Progressions
Pachelbel's Canon as a progression
O Come All Ye Faithful
Left-Hand Patterns for basic chord progressions in 4/4 Time
Left-Hand Patterns for basic chord progressions in 3/4 Time
Chapter 15: Fills for Both Hands Together
Chapter 16: Pseudo-modulations
Pseudo-modulations in twelve keys
Chapter 17: Happy Endings
Twelve Different Endings in Twelve Keys
Chapter 18: The "Two-Five-One" Progression
The Cycle of Chords
Review of Patterns
Final Assignment
