Lessons

Front Matter:

• Title page PDF
• Opening Remarks PDF

1 to 8b: Notes and scales and fingering devices on the “D” (4th) string.

• Lesson 1: Notes on the “D” (4th) String PDF
• Lesson 2: Octave Scales on the “D” String PDF
• Lesson 3: Continuous Scale on “D-G-B-E” Strings PDF
• Lesson 4: Fingering Devices: Two Note Grouping: Two Finger Shifts PDF
• Lesson 5: Fingering Devices: Three Note Grouping: Three Finger Shifts with Extension Fingering PDF
• Lesson 6: Fingering Devices: Four Note Grouping: Three Finger Shifts With Extensions and Slides PDF
• Lesson 7: Fingering Devices: Three Note Grouping: Extension Fingering, First, Second, Third and Fourth Finger Slides PDF
• Lesson 8a: Finger Manipulation, Co-ordination, Reading PDF
• Lesson 8b: Finger Manipulation, Co-ordination, Reading (cont’d) PDF

9 to 11e: Combining the “D” and “G” strings with five tone and one octave scales.

• Lesson 9: Five Tone Scales Combining the “D” and “G” Strings PDF
• Lesson 10: Octave Scales Combining the “D” and “G” Strings PDF
• Lesson 11a: Octave Scales Combining the “D-G-B” Strings PDF
• Lesson 11b: Demonstrating the Exceptions: on D-G-B (example: F alphabet) PDF
• Lesson 11c: OCTAVE SCALES ON “D-G-B” Strings in Eighth Notes PDF
• Lesson 11d: Octave Scales on “D-G-B” Strings in Triplet Eighths PDF
• Lesson 11e: Octave Scales on “D-G-B” in Sixteenths PDF

12 to 14: Review of analyzing intervals and the four types of triads.

• Lesson 12a: Intervals in Detail PDF
• Lesson 12b: Practical Intervals PDF
• Lesson 12c: Intervals Inverted PDF
• Lesson 13: Scale Harmony PDF
• Lesson 14: Principal and Secondary Chords PDF

15 to 31b: Triads “D-G-B” strings and unison triads and arpeggios.

• Lesson 15: Triads with Bass Notes on the “D” String PDF
• Lesson 16: Low Position “Altered” Triads on “G-B-E” Strings PDF
• Lesson 17: Unison Triads PDF
• Lesson 18a: Unison Major Triads: Low Root Position PDF
• Lesson 18b: Root Position Arpeggios Based on Major Triads PDF
• Lesson 19a: Unison Minor Triads: Low Root Position PDF
• Lesson 19b: Root Position Arpeggios Based on Minor Triads PDF
• Lesson 20a: Unison Diminished Triads: Low Root Position PDF
• Lesson 20b: Root Position Arps Based on Diminished Triads PDF
• Lesson 21a: Unison Augmented Triads: Low Root Position PDF
• Lesson 21b: Root Position Arps Based on Augmented Triads PDF
• Lesson 22: Unison Major Triads and Arps in First Inversion PDF
• Lesson 23: Unison Minor Triads and Arps in First Inversion PDF
• Lesson 24: Unison Diminished Triads and Arps in First Inversion PDF
• Lesson 25: Unison Augmented Triads and Arps in First Inv. PDF
• Lesson 26: Unison Major Triads and Arpeggios in Second Inversion PDF
• Lesson 27: Unison Minor Triads and Arpeggios in Second Inversion PDF
• Lesson 28: Unison Diminished Triads and Arpeggios in Second Inversion PDF
• Lesson 29: Unison Augmented Triads and Arpeggios in Second Inversion PDF
• Lesson 30a: Root Position Arpeggios PDF
• Lesson 30b: First Inversion Arpeggios, Second Inversion Arpeggios PDF
• Lesson 31a: Extended Arpeggios PDF
• Lesson 31b: Extended Arpeggio Rhythmic Forms PDF

32 to 32b: Chord and scale relationships expanded.

• Lesson 32a: Scale and Chord Relationships Expanded PDF
• Lesson 32b: Scale and Chord Relationships (Cont’d) PDF

33 to 35e: Refining the process of harmonizing a tune with triads.

• Lesson 33: Non-Chordal Tones Revisited and Revised PDF
• Lesson 34: Harmonizing with Triads (Close Investigation and Revision) PDF
• Lesson 35a: Harmonizing Solutions PDF
• Lesson 35b: Tune No. 1 PDF
• Lesson 35c: Tune No. 2 PDF
• Lesson 35d: Tune No. 3 PDF
• Lesson 35e: Rhythmic Solutions PDF

36: Analyzing note “size.”

• Lesson 36: Note Sizes PDF

37a to 38b: Three part Dominant 7th chords.

• Lesson 37a: Three Part “Dominant 7th” Chords PDF
• Lesson 37b: Three Part Dominant Seventh Chords (cont’d) PDF
• Lesson 38a: Low Position Three Part Dominant 7th Chords on G-B-E Strings and on D-G-B Strings PDF
• Lesson 38b: Observations regarding the inversion of the Three Part Dominant 7th Chord PDF

39a to 39d: Other three part 7th chords.

• Lesson 39a: Three Part Maj7, m7 and mMaj7 Chords PDF
• Lesson 39b: “A Mayor” PDF
• Lesson 39c: “Approximately Jazz” (Jazz Rondo in D) PDF
• Lesson 39d: “Approximately Jazz” (Jazz Rondo in D): Harmonized Solution PDF

40a to 40h: Three part 9th, 11th and 13th chords.

• Lesson 40a: Three Part 9th, 11th and 13th chords PDF
• Lesson 40b: Harmonizing with Substitute 9th, 11th and 13th Chords PDF
• Lesson 40c: Minor Key Substitutes PDF
• Lesson 40d: Harmonizing with 3 Part Dominant 7th Chords in a Minor Key PDF
• Lesson 40e: The “Non-descript Waltz” PDF
• Lesson 40f: “The Non-descript Pop Song” PDF
• Lesson 40g: “The Non-descript Pop Song” (solved) PDF
• Lesson 40h: Last Words of Caution Regarding Substitute Triads PDF

Closing Remarks PDF