The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds, elements, and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions to fingerboard organization to phrasing, essential blues scales, riffs, lick development, and an array of advanced concepts and devices, including substitute scales and extended super arpeggios are covered. Throughout this process 38 solos, over 100 music examples, and hundreds of licks are featured. Written in notation and tablature.

 102 Licks       
 About The Notation, Chord Symbols & Fingerings       
 Bebop - Changes From The Inside       
 Blues Scales, Sounds & Choruses       
 Caged Formations/Fingerboard Organization       
 Diminished Scales And Arpeggios       
 Double-Stops       
 Glossary       
 Guide Tones       
 Home Positions/Home Scales       
 Introduction       
 Lick Development       
 Melodic Minor/Lydian Dominant Scales & Arpeggios       
 Non-Strict Variable Riffs       
 Phrasing       
 Scale Patterns       
 Shape-Related & Parallel Concepts       
 Strict Riffs & Riff Structure       
 Sub Formations       
 Super Arpeggios       
 Swing Specifics       
 Swing/Bop Basics       
 The Additive Approach       
 The Blues Scale       
 The Chromatic Scale       
 The Dorian Mode       
 The Major Pentatonic Scale       
 The Major Scale       
 The Mixolydian Mode       
 Whole-Tone Scales & The Augmented Chord