Jim Ferguson, one of the foremost names in jazz guitar instruction, helps you unleash the improvisational power of fingerboard shapes—utilized by many guitar greats—with this book. Material includes numerous major, minor, and dominant chord-based patterns and superimpositions, along with a host of ideas and concepts to help you assemble them into dynamic solos. Four complete solos on common song forms/progressions are included along with a 28-track CD. Standard notation and TAB

Contents:

1) Shapes & Superimpositions — An Introduction

• Shapes Within Chords
• Connecting The Dots
• Shape Superimposition

2) Shapes & The Ever-Present - IIm7-V7

• One-Bar IIm7-V7 Patterns
• Moving To Other String Sets
• More Shapes & Positions
• Phrase Extension & Modification
• The IIm7b5-V7

3) Progression Practice For IIm7-V7s

• Circle-Based IIm7-V7s
• Chromatic IIm7-V7s
• Resolving To Imaj7
• Putting It All Together

4) Major-Based Shapes & Patterns

• One-Bar Major-Based Phrases
• Moving To Other String Sets
• Pattern Practice In Whole Steps
• Whole-Step Pattern & Chord Progressions

5) Shapes, Patterns & Jazz Standards

• “Confirmation Blues”
• “Green Porpoise Street”
• “Deep Blue Bossa”
• “Rhythm Changes”

Notational Symbols

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