This collection of etudes, written during the 1970's, was composed as a result of Jimmy Wyble's explorations into the musical worlds of counterpoint, harmony and chord melody improvisation for the jazz guitar. The right and left hand fingerings presented in this book were also developed as techniques needed to improvise jazz in two lines. Jimmy uses very standard jazz guitar chord shapes in these etudes; however, these shapes move through the harmony in lines rather than block chord structures. This broken chord technique creates a unique contrapuntal sound that separates Jimmy from the rest of the fingerstyle jazz guitar world. It is hoped that jazz and classical guitarists playing and working through these etudes will see many familiar chord shapes moving in new ways and creating new sounds. These new harmoni c sounds combined with beautiful melodies will inspire any quitarist to new levels of musical creativity. Written in notation and tablature. Access to online audio available for download.

The Art of Two-Line Improvisation

Etude Eight       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Eighteen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Eleven       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Fifteen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Fourteen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Nine       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Nineteen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Seven       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Seventeen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Sixteen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Ten       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Thirteen       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twelve       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twenty       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twenty-Five       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twenty-Four       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twenty-One       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twenty-Three       Jimmy Wyble
Etude Twenty-Two       Jimmy Wyble
Improvisation Part One       Jimmy Wyble
Improvisation Part Two       Jimmy Wyble