This method book is designed to help intermediate to advanced jazz students incorporate classic jazz vocabulary into their original improvisations. Using a series of standard and modern chord progressions, guitarist Davy Mooney provides several short passages that are meant to be played exactly as written within an otherwise improvised solo: students are expected to adapt this written material to their own purposes by improvising into and out of it.In an effort to overcome the disconnect between...

• Chapter 1 - Introduction to Personalizing Jazz Vocabulary
• Chapter 2 - Five and Nine Eighth-Note Resolution Cells
• Chapter 3 - Happenstance
• Chapter 4 - Interstellar
• Chapter 5 - Blues
• Chapter 6 - Henderson-Type Changes
• Chapter 7 - Rhythm Changes
• Chapter 8 - Coltrane-Type Changes
• Chapter 9 - Golson-Type Changes
• Chapter 10 - No One
• Chapter 11 - Monk-Type Changes
• Chapter 12 - Shorter-Type Changes
• Chapter 13 - And Then?