ALL BLUES SOLOING

JAZZ GUITAR

SCALES, LICKS, CONCEPTS & CHORUSES

JIM FERGUSON

Guitar TAB Book with CD

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 & 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