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Table of Contents for Vol.1 Feb-Mar 2022

1. Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

2. Trick 1 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (piano voicings • rootless voicings • upper structures • tritone substitution)

3. Double Harmonic Major
Scales & Modes (scales & modes over the circle of fifths • related modes • source scales)

4. Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

5. The Bermuda Triangle Chord
Chord Symbols • Symmetric Scales (chord symbol notation • circle of fifths • symmetry • scales of limited transposition)

6. Yesterday Reharm
Sheet Music (piano arrangement)

7. Songwriting Techniques
Songwriting & Harmony (chord substitutions • borrowing from minor • extensions • secondary dominants • alternative paths)

8. Trick 2 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (creating an intro for any song • 7sus4 transformations • using the related ii chord)

9. Some Day My Prince Will Come in All Keys
Playing Jazz Standards (learning standards in all keys • thinking harmonically • finding harmonic and melodic patterns)

10. From This Place (Pat Metheny)
Sheet Music (piano arrangment)

11. Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

12. Songwriting Techniques
Advanced Harmony Concepts (tonality • consonance • emergent properties • motivic development)

13. 2-5-1 Upper Structures
Upper Structures (reharmonization • borrowing from minor • 2-5-1 upper structures • locrian • mixolydian)

14. Imagine Reharmonization (The Beatles)
Sheet Music (piano arrangement)

15. Waltz For Debby Bach (a la Bach)
Sheet Music (piano arrangement)

16. Trick 3 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (different ways to create harmonic progressions using the 9th as a target over minor chords)

17. Pat Metheny On Piano
Pat Metheny (composition • harmonic language)

18. Errrol Garner's Misty
Reharmonization (interpolation • modal interchange • extended dominants)

19. All Upper Structure Triads
Upper Structures sheet music (Complete list of upper structure triads • all types of chords • in all keys)

20. The Modes of the Harmonic Minor
Scales & Modes (Harmonic Minor • Modes • Reharmonization • Chords • Sheet Music)

21. Tritone Substitutions
Reharmonization (Quiz & Charts) (The subV7 • Tonal Harmony • Chord-scales • Altered Scale • Lydian b7)

22. Upper Structure Quartals
Workouts & Songs (Upper Structures • Quartal Voicings • Exercises • A Child Is Born • All The Things You Are • Misty)

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Table of Contents for Vol.2 Apr-May 2022

• Love Of My Life Reharm
Sheet Music (Piano arrangement • Reharmonization • Sheet music)

• The Modes of the Melodic Minor
Scales & Modes (Melodic Minor • Modes • Reharmonization • Chords • Sheet Music)

• Over The Rainbow Reharmonization
Sheet Music (piano arrangement)

• Desafinado Piano Solo
Sheet Music (4-note Rootless Voicings • Improvisation • Bossa Nova)

• Trick 10 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (Upper Structures, Voice-Leading, 2-5-1 Reharmonization)

• 2-5-1 Bebop Lick
Bebop Lines (2-5-1 • Licks • V7 Reharmonization • Half Diminished Scale)

• Trick 11 Advanced Perspective
Upper Structures (contemporary sound • Modulation Patterns • Voicings)

• Just The Way You Are (Reharm)
Sheet Music (piano arrangement)

• Turnaround Bebop Line 2
Bebop Lines (Turnaround • Bebop • Licks • 12-Key Workout)

• Bebop Line 3
Bebop Lines (Bebop Progression • Bebop Modulation Patterns • Licks • 12-Key Workout)

• Bebop Line 5
Bebop Lines (Bebop Progression • Licks Variations with Tails • 12-Key Workout)

• Bebop Line 6
Bebop Lines (Bebop Enclosures • Minor Targets • 3-Lick Rotation • 12-Key Workout

Year 2022 (common to all volumes)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Trick 1 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (piano voicings • rootless voicings • upper structures • tritone substitution)

• Double Harmonic Major
Scales & Modes (scales & modes over the circle of fifths • related modes • source scales)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• The Bermuda Triangle Chord
Chord Symbols • Symmetric Scales (chord symbol notation • circle of fifths • symmetry • scales of limited transposition)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• Upper Structure Quartals
Workouts & Songs (Upper Structures • Quartal Voicings • Exercises • A Child Is Born • All The Things You Are • Misty)

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Table of Contents for Vol.3 Jun-Jul 2022

• Jazz Harmony
Harmonic Functions Worksheet (tonality • jazz harmony • worksheet • tonic, dominant & subdominant)

• Symmetric Diminished Voicings
Piano Voicings (Symmetric Diminished (Half Whole) Scale • Symmetry • Piano Voicings • Dominant Chords)

• The 7susQuatch Chord
Music Theory (Building Chords - 7sus4 - Intervals - Overtone Series & Timbre - Upper Structure Quartals)

• Bebop Line #8
Bebop Lines (2 - 5 -1 in minor • 2-lick exercise • 12-Key Workout)

• Bebop Line #9
Bebop Lines (Symmetric diminished • Altered dominants • 12-key workout)

• Secondary Dominants
Music Theory (Secondary Dominants • Harmonic Analysis • Circle of fifths • Leading tones)

• Scales Transformations
Scales Practice (ionian • mixolydian • lydianb7 • half-diminished)

• Scales Transformations 2
Scales Practice (Altered Scale • Melodic Minor)

• Scales Combinations
Scales Practice (Locrian natural 9 + Symmetric Diminished • Modal Interchange)

• Bebop Line No.11
Bebop Lines (12 Key Workout • Consecutive 2-5s)

• Bebop Line No.12
Bebop Lines (Locrian Natural 9 & Half-Whole • 2-Licks • 12-Key Workout)

• Bebop Line No.13
Bebop Lines (Triple Chromatic Trapping • Enclosures)

• Bebop Line No.14
Bebop Lines (Red Garland Style • 6 2 5 1)

• Afternoon In Paris
Bebop Lines (Study Using Bebop Lines Combinations)

• Chord Substitutions
Using the Half-Whole Scale (Symmetric Diminished • Diminished Scale • Chord Substitutions • Reharmonization)

• Circle of Fifths
The V7 - I (Functional Harmony • Circle of Fifths • Worksheet)

• Piano Man Reharm
Sheet Music (Reharmonization • Solo Piano Arrangement)

Year 2022 (common to all volumes)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Trick 1 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (piano voicings • rootless voicings • upper structures • tritone substitution)

• Double Harmonic Major
Scales & Modes (scales & modes over the circle of fifths • related modes • source scales)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• The Bermuda Triangle Chord
Chord Symbols • Symmetric Scales (chord symbol notation • circle of fifths • symmetry • scales of limited transposition)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• Upper Structure Quartals
Workouts & Songs (Upper Structures • Quartal Voicings • Exercises • A Child Is Born • All The Things You Are • Misty)

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Table of Contents for Vol.4 Aug-Sep 2022

• Scale Theory
Scales (finding all scales in music • modes • symmetry • graphing scales onto the circle of fifths)

• The Aeolian Mode
Modal Music (Modality vs. Tonality • Cadential Chords • Modal Tonic Chord • Characteristic Tone)

• Bebop Line No.16
Bebop Lines (Bud Powell • V7/V • Chromatic Enclosures • 12-Key Workout)

• Chords Substitutions
Borrowing From Minor (Reharmonization Techniques • Modal Interchange)

• Does The ii/V Exist?
Songwriting (Questionnaire • Tonal Harmony • Secondary Dominants • Half-Cadence • Deceptive Cadence • Plagal Cadence)

• Bebop Line No.17
Bebop Lines (Enclosures • Minor Key • Altered Scale • Double Time)

• The Plagal Cadence
Tonal Harmony (The Subdominant • Tension & Release • Backward Progressions)

• Bebop Line No.18
Developing Bebop Lines (Adapting licks to new harmonic progressions based on bebop line No.11)

• Montuno 2-3 Clave
Latin Piano (Montuno • Tumbao Bass • Latin Comping)

• Bebop Line No.20
Bebop Lines (Beat Targeting • Exercise)

• Bebop Line No.21
Bebop Lines (Variations • Bill Evans • 12-Key Workout)

• The Impostor Chord
Tonal Harmony (The bVII • Harmonic Analysis • Tonic • Subdominant • Dominant)

• Some Day My Prince Will Come - Beginner
How To Play The Real Book (Lead Sheets • Jazz Standards • Interpreting the Real Book)

• Some Day My Prince Will Come - Intermediate
How To Play The Real Book (Lead Sheets • Jazz Standards • Interpreting the Real Book)

• Some Day My Prince Will Come - Advanced
How To Play The Real Book (Lead Sheets • Jazz Standards • Interpreting the Real Book)

• Some Day My Prince Will Come - Pro Level
How To Play The Real Book (Lead Sheets • Jazz Standards • Interpreting the Real Book)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

Year 2022 (common to all volumes)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Trick 1 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (piano voicings • rootless voicings • upper structures • tritone substitution)

• Double Harmonic Major
Scales & Modes (scales & modes over the circle of fifths • related modes • source scales)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• The Bermuda Triangle Chord
Chord Symbols • Symmetric Scales (chord symbol notation • circle of fifths • symmetry • scales of limited transposition)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• Upper Structure Quartals
Workouts & Songs (Upper Structures • Quartal Voicings • Exercises • A Child Is Born • All The Things You Are • Misty)

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Table of Contents for Vol.5 Oct-Nov 2022

• Bebop Line No.22
Bebop Lines (8-Measure Lick • Kenny Barron • 12-Key Workout)

• Sus2 Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (Misty • Tensions • Altered Dominants • Quartals • Practice)

• 10 Killer Runs & Arpeggios
Jazz Improvisation (Runs • Arpeggios • Upper Structures • Quartals • Piano Technique)

• Bebop Line No.23
Bebop Lines (Minor Key • McCoy Tyner • Half-whole Scale • 12-Key Workout)

• Augmented 6th Chords
Tonal Harmony (Italian, Geman & French augmented 6th chords • subV7/V • secondary dominants)

• Jazz Line No.1
Jazz Lines (Stan Getz • All The Things You Are)

• Symmetric Dominant Substitution
Jazz Theory & Voicings (Symmetric Diminished • Dominant Chords • Upper Structures • Reharmonization)

• Sus2 for 2-5s in Minor
Jazz Improvisation (2-5 in Minor • Tensions • sus2 • Stella By Starlight)

• Jazz Line No.2
Jazz Lines (Trading Eights • Developing a line • Stan Getz • All The Things You Are)

• Jazz Line No.3
Jazz Lines (Blues • Developing a line • Stan Getz • Billie s Bounce)

• 12 More Killer Runs & Arpeggios
Jazz Improvisation (Runs • Arpeggios • Upper Structures • Substructures • Piano Technique)

• Soulful Chord Progressions
Reharmonization Techniques (Voicings • Bass-lines • Secondary Dominants • Extended Dominants • SubV7 • Gospel)

Reggae on Piano
Piano Grooves (Comping Patterns • Even Raggae & Shuffle Reggae)

• Big Jazz Chords
Jazz Voicings (Rootless Voicings • Comping Patterns • Voice Leading)

• Jazz Comping
Piano Comping (All 3-note 1-bar words • 7-step exercise to practice jazz piano comping)

Bouns
• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

Year 2022 (common to all volumes)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Trick 1 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (piano voicings • rootless voicings • upper structures • tritone substitution)

• Double Harmonic Major
Scales & Modes (scales & modes over the circle of fifths • related modes • source scales)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• The Bermuda Triangle Chord
Chord Symbols • Symmetric Scales (chord symbol notation • circle of fifths • symmetry • scales of limited transposition)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• Upper Structure Quartals
Workouts & Songs (Upper Structures • Quartal Voicings • Exercises • A Child Is Born • All The Things You Are • Misty)

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Table of Contents for Vol.6 Dec-Jan 2023

• Auld Lang Syne
Sheet Music - Tutorial (sheet music • how to play the real book • voicings • upper structures • lead sheet interpretation)

• Christmas Time Is Here
Sheet Music - Tutorial (sheet music • how to play the real book • voicings • upper structures • lead sheet interpretation)

• Quartal Voicings (Dorian)
Jazz Piano Voicings (quartal harmony • jazz voicings • Dorian scale • 3-step exercise)

• Hemiolas & Anticipations
Piano Comping (Comping Rhythms • The dotted-quarter Hemiola • Anticipations)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Stan Getz • All The Things You Are)

• Pentatonic b1 Voicings
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic b1)

• Practice Session 101
Jazz Improvisation (A Child Is Born • Chord-tones • jazz exercise)

• Raga Jayakauns Voicings
Pentatonic Voicings (Jazz Piano Exercise • Voicings • Minor Pentatonic b5)

• Mixolydian Voicings
Pentatonic Voicings (Pentatonic Voicings • McCoy Tyner • The Mixolydian Mode)

• Original 2-5-1 Voicings
Pentatonic Voicings (Pentatonic Voicings • 2-5-1 Progression)

• Modern Voicings
Piano Voicings (Quartals • sus2 • sus4 • Stella By Starlight • 12-key Exercise)
• Hemiolas 102
Practice Sessions (Hemiolas • Jazz Piano Comping • Stella By Starlight)

• Improvise Using Motivs
Jazz Improvisation(Motivic Development • Upper Strucutes • 2-5 In Minor • Stella By Starlight)

Year 2022 (common to all volumes)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Trick 1 Advanced Perspective
Piano Trick Advanced Perspective (piano voicings • rootless voicings • upper structures • tritone substitution)

• Double Harmonic Major
Scales & Modes (scales & modes over the circle of fifths • related modes • source scales)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• The Bermuda Triangle Chord
Chord Symbols • Symmetric Scales (chord symbol notation • circle of fifths • symmetry • scales of limited transposition)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• Upper Structure Quartals
Workouts & Songs (Upper Structures • Quartal Voicings • Exercises • A Child Is Born • All The Things You Are • Misty)

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Table of Contents for Vol.7 Feb-Mar 2023

• The Dorian Mode
Dorian Exercises • Jazz Lines • Jazz Improvisation • Scales & Modes

• The Mixolydian Mode
Mixolydian Exercises • Jazz Lines • Jazz Improvisation • Scales & Modes

• The Mixolydian b9 b13
Scales & Modes (Mixolydian b9 b13 • Progressions in minor • Jazz Improvisation • Modes)

• Add9 Upper Structures
Jazz Improvisation (Upper Structures • Add9 Chords • Dominant Chords Improv)

• The Harmony of Jobim
Tonal Harmony (The Girl From Ipanema • Special Dominant Chords • the bVII 7, The ii7 and the subV7b5)

• Exploring Bebop Line No.21-1
Jazz Improvisation (Bebop Lines • Scales • m7 Arpeggios • Mixolydian)

• Confirmation Charlie Parker
Jazz Practice Session (Charlie Parker • Confirmation • Bebop • Jazz Improvisation • Chord-tones • Approaches)

• Giant Steps Coltrane
Jazz Practice Session (7-Step Jazz Exercise • Arpeggios • Approach Notes • Enclosures)

• Bill Evans 7sus4
Jazz Piano Voicings (Voicings • upper structures • 7sus4 • Bill Evans • Transcription)

• Giant Steps Scale Studies
Jazz Studies (Giant Steps • Scale Patterns • Triplets • Hemiolas)

Year 2023 (common to all 2023 vols.)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic)

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Table of Contents for Vol.8 Apr-May 2023

Exploring Bebop Line No.21-2
Bebop Lines • Scales • m7 Arpeggios • Enclosures • Lydian

Easy Jazz Chords 1
All Of You • Rootless Voicings • Chord-tone Substitutions

7-Step Blue Bossa
Bossa Nova • Jazz Improvisation • Chord-tones • Approaches

Smooth Jazz Exercise
Jazz Improvisation • Exercise • Jazz Piano Techniques • Pentatonics • Upper Structures

Exploring Bebop Line No.21-3
Bebop Lines • Scales • m7 Arpeggios • Enclosures • Lydian

Left Hand Voicings
Blue Bossa • Rootless Voicings • Upper Structures

Exploring Bebop Line No.21-4
Bebop Lines • Scale Patters • Melodic Minor • The #9

Exploring Bebop Line No.21-5
Bebop Lines • Line Variations • Scale Substitutions • Shapes

2-Note Voicings
Guide-Tones • Left Hand Voicings • Consecutive 2-5's • 7-Step Exercise

The Joy Of Writing Chord Progressions No.1
Tonal Harmony • Reharmonization Techniques • Sheet Music • Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro

2-Note Rooted Voicings
Guide-Tones • Left Hand Voicings • Consecutive 2-5's • 7-Step Exercise

Year 2023 (common to all 2023 vols.)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic)

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Table of Contents for Vol.9 Jun-Jul 2023

The Joy Of Writing Chord Progressions No.2
Shenandoah (S1E2) (Tonal Harmony • Reharmonization Techniques • Sheet Music • Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro)

Passing Diminished Embellishments (in Major)
Piano Voicings (Voicings • Major Bebop Scale • Passing Diminished)

Passing Diminished Embellishments (in Minor)
Piano Voicings (Voicings • Minor Bebop Scale • Passing Diminished)

Bebop Rhythmic Words 1 & 2
Jazz Improvisation (Rhythm • Improvisation • Walking Bass Line • Bebop)

Essential Jazz Progressions No.1 (Blues - Gospel)
Jazz Harmony (I7 • IV7 • Blue notes • Secondary dominants)

Bebop Rhythmic Words 3 & 4
Jazz Improvisation (Rhythm • Improvisation • Walking Bass Line • Bebop)

Jazz Turnaround Advanced Reharmonization
Jazz Harmony (Turnaround • Reharmonization • subV7 • Upper Structures)

Jazz Mastery No.1
Jazz Harmony (Secondary Dominants • Targeting the vi chord)

Bebop Rhythmic Words 5 & 6
Jazz Improvisation (Rhythm • Improvisation • Walking Bass Line • Bebop • Compound Lines)

Improvising Over 1 Chord
Jazz Improvisation (Lydian, Upper Structures, Improvisation, Outside Chords)

Beginner Jazz Chords No.1
Jazz Chords (Major and Minor Triads, all 7th chord types, root position)

Jazz Mastery No.2
Jazz Harmony (Secondary Dominants • Targeting the IV chord)

9th Chords Walkthrough
Piano Chords (beginner chords • 9th chords • closed voicings)

Year 2023 (common to all 2023 vols.)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic)

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Table of Contents for Vol.10 Aug-Sep 2023

Doxy Solo using 10 Rhythmic Words
Rhythm • Bebop • Improvisation • Sheet Music

12 More(2) Killer Runs & Arpeggios
Arpeggios • Runs • Technique • Upper Structures

Jazz Chords Are Easy
Tensions • The II Chord • Jazz Chords

Moon River
Reharmonization • Piano Arrangement

My Favorite Things Rootless Voicings
Rootless Voicings • Piano Comping • Left Hand Voicings

Chick Corea Runs & Arpeggios
Runs & Arpeggios • Jazz Harmonic Concepts • Upper Structures

Like Someone In Love
Jazz Standards • Reharmonization • Sheet Music

Mixolydian Practice Session
Mixolydian • Modes • Bebop Scale • Target Notes

Beethoven Modulation
Pivot Chord Modulation • Tonal Harmony • Diminished Chords • Quiz

Year 2023 (common to all 2023 vols.)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic)

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Table of Contents for Vol.11 Oct-Nov 2023

The Christmas Song Reharmonization
Jazz Standards • Reharmonization • Piano Arrangement

Kenny Barron Bebop Line
Jazz Improvisation • Exercise • Practice • Bebop Lines • Enclosures

10-Step Jazz Shapes
Exercise • Practice • Herbie Hancock • Enclosures

Jazz Piano Fingerings
Jazz lines • piano fingerings • 12-key exercise

The Great Pumpkin Waltz
Piano Score • Sheet Music • Voicings

Fly Me To The Moon
Bebop Rhythms • Piano Solo • Jazz Standards

Scale Patterns No.1
12-Key Exercise • Scale Patterns • Improvisation

3 Great Upper Structure Triad Combinations
Upper Structures • subV7 • 2-5-1 • Jazz Piano Exercise

Year 2023 (common to all 2023 vols.)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic)

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Table of Contents for Vol.12 Dec-Jan 2024

12 Advanced Piano Voicings
Upper Structures • Arrangement • Jazz Piano

Advanced Piano Voicings for Cadences
Upper Structures • Cadences in Major and Minor • Voicings

I'll Be Home For Christmas
Piano Reharmonization • Jazz Piano Arrangement

Advanced Jazz Line 1
Chick Corea • Pentatonics • Altered Scale • Enclosures • Practice Session

The Pentatonic Rabbit Hole
Minor Pentatonic • Altered Hexatonic • Substructures • 12-Key Exercises

James (Pat Metheny)
Piano Arrangement • Pat Metheny

Have You Heard (Pat Metheny)
Sheet Music • Piano Arrangement • Pat Metheny

Year 2023 (common to all 2023 vols.)
• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

• 7-Step Improvisation Exercise
Improvisation (My Foolish Heart • Chord-Tones • Approach Notes • Inversions • Enclosures • Practice)

• 3-Steps Target Notes
Jazz Improvisation (target notes • chord-tones • guide-tone lines • tensions)

• Pentatonic Voicings 1
Piano Voicings (Jazz piano exercise • voicings • minor pentatonic)

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Table of Contents for Vol.13 Feb-Mar 2024

From Classical To Jazz Part 3
Circle of 5ths • Secondary Dominants • the V7 of vi

Syncopation Study
Rhythm • Syncopation • Hands Independence

Thinking Ahead No.2
Useful Tensions by Chord Type • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

Gusty Garden Jazz Reharm
Game Music Arrangements • Jazz Ballad • Piano Score

When I Fall In Love
Piano Solo Arrangement

Piano Montuno No.1
Montuno • Exercises • Call & Response

Thinking Ahead No.3
Chromatic Approach A-BB-A • Blues for Alice

Stella By Starlight
Piano Solo Arrangement

Thinking Ahead No.4
Chromatic Enclosure BB-AA • Blues for Alice

Vivaldi Winter
Mordents & Tremolos Study • Piano Arrangement

Thinking Ahead No.5
Preparing Chromatic Enclosure BB2-AA-B

Everything Happens To Me
Piano Arrangement

Year 2024 (common to all 2024 vols.)
• Mastering Blues Improvisation
12-bar Blues • Wynton Kelly • Improv. Exercise

• Intro To Jazz Analysis
Harmonic analysis • Arrows & Brackets Analysis • Memorize & play songs in any key

• Thinking Ahead No.1
Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

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Table of Contents for Vol.14 Apr-May 2024

Learning Tunes No.1
Jazz Harmony (Preparing Stella By Starlight • Memorize & play songs in any key)

Thinking Ahead No.6
Jazz Improvisation (Preparing Chromatic Enclosure BB2-AA-B Part 2)

Learning Tunes No.2
Jazz Harmony (Starting Stella By Starlight • Memorize & play songs in any key)

Learning Tunes No.3
Jazz Harmony (Stella By Starlight • Memorize & play songs in any key)

Thinking Ahead No.7
Jazz Improvisation (Blues For Alice • Enclosure BB2-AA-B)

Thinking Ahead No.8
Jazz Improvisation (Blues For Alice • Word No.4)

Thinking Ahead No.9
Jazz Improvisation (Blues For Alice • Word No.2 & 9 • Multiple Enclosures)

Learning Tunes No.4
Jazz Harmony (Stella By Starlight • Brackets & Arrow • First 8 measures full analysis)

Thinking Ahead No.10
Jazz Improvisation (Doxy • All techniques and rhythms)

Learning Tunes No.5
Jazz Harmony (Stella By Starlight • Measures 9-17 • Backdoor to the V • Targeting iii)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.1
Jazz Improvisation (Solo over Doxy • Multiple Improvisation Techniques)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.2
Jazz Improvisation (Solo over Doxy • The major pentatonic)


Year 2024 (common to all 2024 vols.)
• Mastering Blues Improvisation
12-bar Blues • Wynton Kelly • Improv. Exercise

• Intro To Jazz Analysis
Harmonic analysis • Arrows & Brackets Analysis • Memorize & play songs in any key

• Thinking Ahead No.1
Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

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Table of Contents for Vol.15 Jun-Jul 2024

Compound Lines & Syncopation
Piano Techniques (Compound Lines • Syncopation • Bill Joel • Summer, Highland Falls)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.3
Jazz Improvisation (Mack The Knife Solo • Double Time • Triplets)

Montuno Any Song
Latin Piano (Satin Doll • Piano Montuno • Guide-Tone Lines)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.4
Jazz Improvisation (Black Nile • Mack The Knife • Motivic Development)

What Is Your Musical IQ?
Musical IQ Test (Rhythm, Ear Training, Harmony)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.5
Jazz Improvisation (Black Nile • Motivic Development • Left Hand Quartal Voicings)

Learning Tunes No.6
Jazz Harmony (Stella By Starlight • Measures 17-24 • Extended Dominants • Interpolation)

Body And Soul Pentatonic Voicings
Jazz Piano Voicings (Pentatonic Voicings • Harmonizing Melodies • Quartal Voicings)

Video Game Music No.1
Game Scoring (Composition • Ionian Voicings • Inner Clusters • Chromatic Mediant Modulations)

Video Game Music No.2
Game Scoring (Composition • Chromatic Mediant Progressions • Tritone System • Rhythmic Displacement)

Video Game Music No.3
Game Scoring (Line Cliches • Motivic Development • Upper Structures • Tritone Substitutions)

Video Game Music No.4
Game Scoring (Line Cliches • Motivic Development • Upper Structures • Tritone Substitutions)

Jazz Analysis Exercise
Jazz Harmony (Tonal Harmony • Jazz Harmonic Analysis • Bye Bye Blackbird)

Video Game Music No.5
Game Scoring (Modal Music • Aeolian • Dorian • Cadential Chords • Passing Chords • Borrowing)


Year 2024 (common to all 2024 vols.)
• Mastering Blues Improvisation
12-bar Blues • Wynton Kelly • Improv. Exercise

• Intro To Jazz Analysis
Harmonic analysis • Arrows & Brackets Analysis • Memorize & play songs in any key

• Thinking Ahead No.1
Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

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Table of Contents for Vol.16 Aug-Sep 2024

Video Game Music No.6
Game Scoring (The i - bVI - bIII - bVII progression)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.6
Jazz Improvisation (Kenny Barron • Left Hand Comping • On the sunny side of the street)

Jazz Analysis Exercise 2
Jazz Harmony (Tonal Harmony • Jazz Harmonic Analysis • All The Things You Are)

Thinking Ahead 2 No.7
Jazz Improvisation (Kenny Barron Transformations • On the sunny side of the street)

Video Game Music No.7
Game Scoring (Lydian b7 • Mixolydian • Metric Modulation)

Beautiful Jazz Piano Voicings
Piano Voicings (The Whole Tone Scale • Inner Lines • Embellishments)

Beautiful Jazz Piano Voicings No.2
Piano Voicings (Upper Structure Quartals • Backdoor Progression)

Beautiful Jazz Piano Voicings No.3
Piano Voicings (2-5-1 in Minor • Upper Structures)

Beautiful Jazz Piano Voicings No.4
Piano Voicings (Advanced Voicings • Upper Structures Triad Pairs)

7-Step Cha Cha
Latin Piano (Cha Cha • Latin Grooves • Syncopation)

7-Step Merengue
Latin Piano (Merengue • Latin Grooves • Syncopation)

12-Step Montuno + Tumbao
Latin Piano (Montuno • 2-3 Clave • Latin Grooves • Syncopation)

The Days Of Wine And Roses
Sheet Music (Piano Arrangement • Reharmonization)


Year 2024 (common to all 2024 vols.)
• Mastering Blues Improvisation
12-bar Blues • Wynton Kelly • Improv. Exercise

• Intro To Jazz Analysis
Harmonic analysis • Arrows & Brackets Analysis • Memorize & play songs in any key

• Thinking Ahead No.1
Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

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Table of Contents for Vol.17 Oct-Nov 2024

8-Step Bossa Nova
Latin Piano (Bossa Nova • Latin Grooves • Syncopation)

7-Step Bebop No.3
Jazz Lines (Kenny Barron • 7-Step Exercise)

One Note Samba
Sheet Music (Piano Arrangement • Piano Solo • Backing Tracks)

10-Step Funk
Piano Grooves (Funk • Grooves • Syncopation • Backing Tracks)

You Dont Know What Love Is
Sheet Music (Piano Arrangement • Jazz Syandards)

10 Min. Jazz Piano Practice Routine
Jazz Piano (Practice Routine • 2-5 in Minor • Voicings • Chordscales)

8-Step Latin Jazz Piano
Latin Jazz Piano (Michel Camilo • Caribe • Syncopation • Backing Tracks)

10-Step Caribe Montuno
Latin Jazz Piano (Michel Camilo • Caribe • Montuno • Backing Tracks)

20 Blues Licks
Jazz Piano (Blues Licks • Moanin • Call and Response)

Voicings That Defy The Rules
Piano Voicings (Advanced Voicings • Upper Structures • Arrangement)

5 Minute Jazz Study
Jazz Piano (2-5-1 in Minor • Fundamentals • Five Minutes)

Video Game Music No.8
Game Scoring (Pentatonic Upper Structures • Pentatonic Substructures)

Video Game Music No.9
Game Scoring (Ostinatos • Hemiolas • Hiding the barline)

Video Game Music No.10
Game Scoring (Motivic Development • Metric Modulation)

Jazz Piano Basics. 2-5-1 in Major
Jazz Piano (2-5-1 in Major • 5 min. Workout • Rootless Voicings)

Bebop Basics 6-Steps Exercise
Jazz Piano (Bebop Lines • 2-5 Bebop • 12-Key Workout)

Beautiful Love
Sheet Music (Piano Arrangement • Piano Solo • Backing Tracks)


Year 2024 (common to all 2024 vols.)
• Mastering Blues Improvisation
12-bar Blues • Wynton Kelly • Improv. Exercise

• Intro To Jazz Analysis
Harmonic analysis • Arrows & Brackets Analysis • Memorize & play songs in any key

• Thinking Ahead No.1
Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

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Table of Contents for Vol.18 Dec-Jan 2025

Piano Improvisation Using Harmony
Sheet Music (Chord Progressions • Harmonic Paths • Sheet Music)

Fast Bebop Lines
Jazz Exercise (Rhythm Changes • Bebop • Chromatic Enclosures • Workout)

Fast Bebop No.2
Jazz Exercise (Rhythm Changes • Bebop • Chromatic Enclosures • Workout)

Boogie Blues Walking Bass Line
Piano Exercise (Walking Bass Line • Blues • Boogie • Workout)

Hank Jones Line 1
Jazz Improvisation (Jazz Lines • Jazz Scales • Reharms)

Hank Jones Line 2
Jazz Improvisation (Jazz Lines • See-saw Arpeggios • Reharms)

Let It Snow
Sheet Music (Piano Arrangement • Christmas Music • Reharmonization)

Hank Jones Line 3
Jazz Improvisation (Enclosures • Bebop Lines)

Hank Jones Line 4
Jazz Improvisation (Angular Lines • Neighboring Tones • Enclosures)

Wynton Kelly Blues Line 1
Jazz Improvisation (Blues Scale • The I-6 • Approach Tones)

Wynton Kelly Blues Line 2
Jazz Improvisation (Blues Scale • 3-note Voicings • The 13th on Dom Chords)

Wynton Kelly Blues Line 3
Jazz Improvisation (Outlining Chords • 3-note voicings)

Wynton Kelly Swing Line 1
Jazz Improvisation (2-5 Lines • Kelly Reharms)

Wynton Kelly Swing Line 2
Jazz Improvisation (Line Cliches & Reharms)

Wynton Kelly Swing Line 3
Jazz Improvisation (Arpeggios Enclosures & Trapping)

Wynton Kelly Bebop Line 1
Jazz Improvisation (Sequence • Diatonic Line)

Wynton Kelly Bebop Line 2
Jazz Improvisation (The vio7 In Bebop)


Year 2024 (common to all 2024 vols.)
• Mastering Blues Improvisation
12-bar Blues • Wynton Kelly • Improv. Exercise

• Intro To Jazz Analysis
Harmonic analysis • Arrows & Brackets Analysis • Memorize & play songs in any key

• Thinking Ahead No.1
Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice

• Tonal Harmony Complete Map
Mapping Tonal Harmony (Map) (tonal harmony • harmonic functions • cadences • how harmony is organized • how to use the map)

• Misty: Harmonic Analysis
The Harmony In Misty (jazz harmony • harmonic analysis • tonality • Berklee's method using arrows & brackets)

• Functional Harmony
Deluxe Tonal Map (tonal harmony • concepts in tonality • arrows & brackets analysis • inversions)

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Table of Contents for Vol.19 Feb-Mar 2025

Wynton Kelly Bebop Line 3
Jazz Improvisation (Favorite Licks & Approach Triads)

Misty
Jazz Piano Sheet Music (How to play from a lead sheet)

Here's That Rainy Day
Jazz Piano Sheet Music (How to play from a lead sheet)

Christina
Jazz Piano Sheet Music (How to play from a lead sheet)

Turn Out The Stars
Jazz Piano Sheet Music (How to play from a lead sheet • Advanced Chord Voicings)

Mastering Chord Voicings
Jazz Piano Voicings (2-5-1 in minor • Reharmonization • Upper Structures • Bill Evans)

I Thought About You
Sheet Music (Line Cliches • Reharms • How To Play From A Lead Sheet)

Mastering Bill Evans Voicings 2
Jazz Piano Voicings (Bill Evans • Voicings • Enclosures)

Mastering Bill Evans Voicings 3
Jazz Piano Voicings (Bill Evans • Voicings • Shell Voicings & Tensions)

Pentatonic Lines 1, 2, 3
Jazz Improvisation (Pentatonic Lines • Exercises)

Mastering Bill Evans Voicings 4
Jazz Piano Voicings (Rootless • Upper Structures)

Pentatonic Lines 6, 7, 9
Jazz Improvisation (Pentatonic Lines • Altered Dominants)


Year 2025 (common to all 2025 vols.)
20 Blues Licks
Jazz Piano (Blues Licks • Moanin • Call and Response)

Video Game Music No.1
Game Scoring (Composition • Ionian Voicings • Inner Clusters • Chromatic Mediant Modulations)

Thinking Ahead No.1
Jazz Improvisation (Target Notes • Chromatic Approach • 7th Chords Arpeggios • Blues for Alice)

Hank Jones Line 1
Jazz Improvisation (Jazz Lines • Jazz Scales • Reharms)

Misty
Jazz Piano Sheet Music (How to play from a lead sheet)

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