This Standard Notation book (no TAB) shows guitarists how to transform basic jazz improv techniques into bebop figures in Bird's famous 'with strings' style by making chromatic and rhythmic alterations.

Includes many musical examples, most in the user-friendly key of G major, to accommodate players not well versed in jazz flat keys

• Rhythm and Forward Motion
• Delay and Anticipation Devices
• Neighbour Tone Note Usage
• Neighbour Tones
• Enclosing Figures
• Changing Tones
• Connector Figures
• Mordents
• Digital Patterns
• Suspension Figures
• Scales, Scale Fragments and Chromatic Lines
• Dorian Mode
• Pentatonic Scale
• Diminished Scale
• Chromatic Lines
• 7^th Chords
• Circles, Turns and Tags
• Turns
• Tags
• Tonic Lines
• Chord Outlines and Basic Chord Changes