Building on the fundamentals featured in Book One, Book Two will introduce a
whole new world of melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic possibilities.

Chapter One • Major Triads & Major-Seven Chords
The Cycle of Fifths • Improvising Techniques featured in Book One • Improvisation Workshop: Including Phrases that Flow Directly from One Scale into the Next

Chapter Two • Dominant-Seven Chords
12/8 Time • The Blues Scale • Improvisation Workshop: Two Important Rhythms

Chapter Three • Minor Triads & Minor-Seven Chords
From Book One: Learning Phrases by Ear • Improvisation Workshop: Incorporating Phrases from the Recorded Improvisations / Incorporating Phrases You've Composed

Chapter Four • Diminished Triads & Half-Diminished Chords
The Major Pentatonic (plus b3) Scale • Improvisation Workshop: Experimenting with Articulation

Chapter Five • Diminished-Seven Chords

Chapter Six • Suspended-Seven Chords
Chord Families

Chapter Seven • Dominant-Seven-Sharp-Five Chords
Minor Tonality • The Natural Minor Scale

Chapter Eight • Dominant-Nine Chords
Twelve-Bar Blues • Grace Notes

Chapter Nine • Dominant-Thirteen-Flat-Nine Chords
Looking Ahead to Book Three

Appendix
Scales Featured in Book Two's Improvisations

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