- Hello and welcome...
- Chord Symbols and Bass Note Notation
- Your Instrument
...and what you have to think about when playing
- A Small Warm Up: Breathing Exercises
- The Beguine Accompaniment
- New Notation Symbols
The Sign to Rest: the Fermata
The Symbol for Breathing: the Breath Mark
- Chromaticism
- A New Articulation: Martellato
Scale Fluency – Legato and Martellato
- Exercise: Double Stops (Sixths)
- Workshop Piece No. 1 – Roxy’s Waltz
1. “One, Two, Three...”: There’s a Count Off
2. The Chord Sequence
3. The Melody
4. Chord Shenanigans
The One Bar Repeat Sign
5. Roxy’s Waltz – the Entire Form
- A Chapter on Harmony: Triads Built on the Steps of the Scale
- A New Ornamentation: the Upper Mordent
- Unfamiliar Sounds: Scales from Eastern Europe
Finger Training: Slurring Double Stops (Thirds)
- The “Drum Accompaniment”
- New Rhythms: Odd Meters
Changing Dynamics: Suddenly or Gradually?
- Workshop Piece No. 2 – Chanana’s Rhythm
- Anticipated Accents
- Rhythm Exercise: Tapping and Clapping!
- Melody vs. Rock Bass: New Rhythm Exercises
- Finger Training: Double Stops
Rolling Arpeggios
- Eighth Note Triplets...
- New Exercises for the Bellows
“Bellows Shake”
- The Dynamic Colon: the “Forte-Piano” with Crescendo
- A New Articulation: Portato
More Vivid Playing
- The Hora Rhythm
- Finger Training: Slurring Triads
- Voicing Exercise
- Workshop Piece No. 3 – 6:30 Blues
1. The Chord Sequence: the Blues Form
2. The Blues Rhythm
Simplified Notation of the Blues Rhythm
Chorus 1: Rhythmic Motif
Chorus 2: Melody Motif
Dirty Tricks: Tremolo and Roll
Chorus 3
- Four Note Chords: a New World
Expanded Notation for the Bass
- From Impressionism to Jazz Harmony
Major Chord with a Major Seventh: the Major 7 Chord
Minor Chord with a Minor Seventh: the Minor 7 Chord
- A New Sound Option – Vibrato
Quarter Note Triplets
- Four Note Chord Extension: the Ninth
The Major 7/9 Chord
The Minor 7/9 Chord
- A Chapter on Harmony: Four Note Chords Built on the Steps of the Scale
- Overview of the Five Most Important Four Note Chord Types
Typical Chord Progression – the “II – V – I” Progression
Tension Factor: the Circle Progression
- “3 Against 2”
Rhythm Exercise for Los Dos Cactùssos
- Finger Training: Four Note Chords
- Rhythm Exercises for Hola, que tal!
- A Preferred Collection of Notes for Improvisation – the Blues Scale
A Blues Scale Solo for Hola, que tal!
- Four Note Chord Inversions
Connecting Inversions
- Workshop Piece No. 4 – Merry Go Round
1. The Structure of the Piece
2. The Chords
Rhythm: a Simple “Swing” Accompaniment
3. The Melody
Swing Feeling: the Thing Is How Much “Swing”
Chorus 1: Chords in Rhythm
Chorus 2: from the Chord to the Melody
- “3 - 3 - 2” – the Rumba Rhythm
- The Half Diminished Chord
- The Bossa Nova Rhythm
- New Chord – Cm6
- Workshop Piece No. 5 – Tribute to Astor
The Structure of the Piece
Cue Notes
- A New Rhythmic Element: N-Tuplets
- Rhythm Exercise for Ipanema Boy
- Timelessly Sad Sounds – the “Doina”
Appendix:
- Fingering Diagrams for the Most Important Jazz Chords
Fingerings Built on the Root Note (based on E)
Fingerings Built on the Counter Bass (based on E)
Further Chord Fingerings
- Style Dictionary and Mini Discography
- List of Song Titles/CD Index Numbers
- The Bass Buttons – Overview