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Jazz Guitar Genius: 7th-Chord Arpeggios: A 36-Day Training Cycle for Pros

Unlock Your Jazz Guitar Potential with “Jazz Guitar Genius: 7th-Chord Arpeggios – A 36-Day Training Cycle for Pros”!

**Note: This book is in standard notation only and does not include TAB.**

Are you ready to take your jazz guitar skills to new heights? Dive into 7th-chord arpeggios with this comprehensive guide based on the widely-accepted CAGED system. Developed by renowned guitarist and educator Dan Cosley, this book is your key to unlocking professional-level proficiency and expanding your musical horizons.

Spanning all 36 Major, Melodic Minor, and Harmonic Minor keys/parent scales, the 7th-chord arpeggios presented in this book are arranged according to Cycle of 4ths root motion, providing a structured and organized approach to your practice routine.

Intermediate players: While the absence of TAB may seem challenging, it presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your reading abilities across the entire fretboard.

Mastering the arpeggio forms is essential for fluently improvising harmonically-specific lines and creating chord voicings. You’ll also gain crucial insight into the transitional voice-leading “moves” and resolutions commonly encountered in various musical genres, from Bach to contemporary jazz.

Learn to view the CAGED system not merely as a set of fingerings but as a tool for efficiently organizing and assimilating the fretboard. Internalize the CAGED forms and then “uncage” or “dissolve” them, creating comfortable fingerings that allow you to express personal musical phrasing.

Integrating the 36-Day Training Cycle into your practice unlocks new dimensions of musicality, technical proficiency, and creative expression.

Advanced and Professional Players: Deepen your knowledge of 7th-chord arpeggios, melodic improvisation, chord construction, and harmonic progression while strengthening your ability to read standard notation across the entire fretboard.

“Jazz Guitar Genius: 7th-Chord Arpeggios” is the ultimate training resource for professional guitarists and intermediate improvisers pursuing the highest levels of knowledge and fluency.

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The Art of Canon: 254 Two-Part Inventions in Five Volumes

(Available versions: for Solo Guitar, Two Guitars or Flute/Violin & Guitar, and Guitar & Cello/Bass or Solo Piano)

Volume 1: 54 Two-Part Inventions in C Major / A Natural Minor
Volume 2: 45 Two-Part Inventions in G Major / E Natural Minor
Volume 3: 57 Two-Part Inventions in D Major / B Natural Minor
Volume 4: 44 Two-Part Inventions in A Major / F^# Natural Minor
Volume 5: 54 Two-Part Inventions in E Major / C^# Natural Minor

The Art of Canon is a collection of two-voice modal counterpoint containing 254 two-part inventions in five keys derived from combining transformations of an original theme.

This five-volume collection of pieces is a rich source of material for sight-reading practice, ensemble playing, teaching, and concert repertoire.

The Art of Canon explores canonic techniques associated with the polyphonic vocal music of the Renaissance (including prolation/mensuration canons, diminution canons, crab canons, mirror canons, etc.) and was written in the spirit (though not in the style) of the immortal masters Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Josquin des Prez.

Performers are encouraged to bring their personality and characterization to the pieces, to discover and elucidate the unique affect of each canon. Tempo, dynamics, expression, accent, and articulations are all areas in which freedom and creativity are encouraged.

Time signatures were omitted because, depending on the desired tempo and spirit of the interpretation, performers may wish to feel the pieces in 2/2, 4/4, or 8/8. Likewise, there are no dynamics included in the scores but will be present in any convincing performance.

Suites and longer compositions may be assembled by combining the canons and exploring the myriad key relations and voice combinations within the five volumes.

Performances should unfold in a lyrical style – sempre cantabile – aiming to evoke a contemplative atmosphere.

-Dan Cosley

Kyoto, 2022

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The Quartal Chord Voicing Book for Guitar: A Complete Guide to Harmony in Fourths

The Quartal Chord Voicing Book for Guitar is a comprehensive text covering the logic behind “quartal” or “fourths” voicings and their application to harmonic progressions, voice-leading, chord-melody, and comping.

This ground-breaking resource investigates/includes:

How “quartal” voicings are formed, and their application to the guitar
Complete overview of four-part and three-part quartal voicings on seven string sets
Similarities and differences between tonal/modal harmony, and tertian(3rds)/quartal(4ths) voicings
Deep exploration of four-part quartal chord forms in all Major, Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, and Harmonic Major keys
Memorization exercises to efficiently assimilate the forms
Special topics include: five and six-part voicings, quartal chord-based linear improvisation, neighbor tone voicings, harmonizing modal melodies
TAB, standard notation, diagrams, and comprehensive charts for practice and reference

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Omni-Bach – Volume 1: Violin Partita No. 1 (BWV 1002) Transposed to 12 Keys for Solo Guitar

The Omni-Bach Series: Introduction

The Omni-Bach series presents complete masterworks by J. S. Bach, transposed into 12 keys. The series fosters a deeper understanding of the foundations of tonal harmony (progressions, cadences, voicings, arpeggios, scales, etc.), and the development of an all-embracing mastery of instrumental technique.

Classical and jazz guitarists will find ample material for arranging, sight-reading, improvisation, and harmony studies.

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Tetrachords for Guitar (also Bass & Flute): A Thesaurus of Four-Note Patterns for Improvisers & Composers

Tetrachords, or four-note patterns, offer various advantages over scalar or modal approaches to improvising and composing melodies through chord changes.

A tetrachord-based linear approach is indispensable for navigating modern improvisational styles due to the general complexity, challenging tempos, and fast-moving harmonic rhythms involved.

Tetrachords: A Thesaurus of Four-Note Patterns for Improvisers & Composers, a comprehensive 219-page resource, offers clear solutions and stimulates creativity through:

An introduction to using four-note patterns (tetrachords) for melodic improvisation in the style of John Coltrane
A highly-organized 24-day practice plan for mastering 144 of the most common tetrachord permutations, in every key, and across the entire range of the instrument
Four etudes based on John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” and “26-2” chord progressions
Advice on tetrachord-based melodic improvisation, including detailed resources for creating variations in rhythm and contour
The book’s six appendices include comprehensive lists of all of the tetrachords possible within the altered and chromatic scales, as well as suggestions for applying tetrachords to extended harmony and “upper-structures.”
(Please note: this book does not include TAB; it is presented in standard notation only.)

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The Four-Note Chord Compendium: A Permutation-Based Harmony Workbook for Guitarists

The Four-Note Chord Compendium is the first mathematically-complete book on four-part guitar harmony ever published.

Nearly 400 pages in length, it contains 5,535 unique chord forms for analysis and exploration: every possible combination of four notes on the instrument.

Also included: suggestions for fingerings, practice approach, and harmonic analysis.

An all-encompassing encyclopedic text, and an essential part of every guitarist’s reference library, this permutation-based workbook will enable you to:

Explore all of the possibilities for four-part harmony on the guitar
Develop a personal harmonic language through the discovery of unique chord voicings and harmonies
Improve analytical skills
Expand your harmonic palette exponentially
Reinforce your current knowledge base by the comprehensive review of four-note chords and arpeggios

Price: $29.99

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The Three-Note Chord Compendium: A Permutation-Based Harmony Workbook for Guitarists

The Three-Note Chord Compendium is the first mathematically-complete book on three-part guitar harmony ever published.

Over 150 pages in length, it contains 1,820 unique chord forms for analysis and exploration: every possible combination of three notes on the instrument.

Also included: suggestions for fingerings, practice approach, and harmonic analysis.

An all-encompassing encyclopedic text, and an essential part of every guitarist’s reference library, this permutation-based workbook will enable you to:

Explore all of the possibilities for three-part harmony on the guitar
Develop a personal harmonic language through the discovery of unique chord voicings and harmonies
Improve analytical skills
Expand your harmonic palette exponentially
Reinforce your current knowledge base by the comprehensive review of three-note chords and arpeggios

Price: $19.99

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THE DROP VOICING BOOK FOR GUITAR: A Complete Guide to Drop 2, Drop 3, Drop 2&3 and Drop 2&4 Chord Voicings & Inversions

“A superb piece of work, which deserves ample success and lasting impact.” – Ricardo Iznaola

THE DROP VOICING BOOK FOR GUITAR is a comprehensive text covering the logic behind “drop” voicings and their application to harmonic progressions and voice-leading. This ground-breaking resource investigates/includes:

How “drop” voicings are formed, and their application to the guitar
Four types of drop voicings on nine string sets
The art of spacing or voicing chords
Six “core” 6th & 7th chord qualities
How to derive voicings from elemental forms
How to move beyond mere memorization and recitation of shapes and voice-lead harmonic textures spontaneously
Nine comprehensive studies on the Autumn Leaves chord progression
Reductive techniques to tailor density & register to ensemble/context
Using chordal knowledge to improvise harmonically-specific melodies
Harmonizing melodies: “chord-melody” playing
Extended tertian harmony
Substitution & superimposition theory and techniques
Alteration techniques to create an enormous palette of additional chord qualities
Free audio downloads
TAB, standard notation, diagrams, and comprehensive charts for practice and reference

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SOLO GUITAR

Two Pieces by Charlie Mingus

For solo guitar. These scores contain detailed fingerings, were meticulously engraved, and closely reflect the original recordings; horn, bass and piano lines/parts were transcribed directly from the original Ah Um album and interwoven into unique guitar textures.

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat $12 (PDF, 5 pages)

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Fables of Faubus $15 (PDF, 7 pages)

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Echoland

Echoland is a lengthy solo piece for classical guitar that explores the blues by the refraction of cliches through a prism of modern compositional techniques. The result is something like a “Cubist” blues; typical patterns are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form.

Echoland $15 (PDF, 6 pages) Listen on YouTube

10 Textures

Studies in Reading, Technique, and Harmony. Publisher: Les Productions d’OZ

Major & Minor Scales/Modes for Guitar

A three-note-per-string approach to major, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales across the full range of the guitar, and in every key. Suggestions for practice schedule and a comprehensive list of right-hand patterns included. Beautifully notated in a clever format that aids in memorization and leaves room for improvisation.

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Green Sound

For solo classical guitar

GUITAR DUO

12 Duos, K.487/496a by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Transcribed for two guitars, these horn pieces are excellent reading material for teacher/student duos. Advanced players can combine the parts to create effective solo arrangements.

12 Duos K. 487/496a $20 (PDF, 15 pages)

44 Duos for Two Violins (Sz. 98, BB 104) by Béla Bartók

Transcribed for guitar duo by Dan Cosley.

Ensō

For classical guitar duo. Publisher: Les Productions d’OZ

GUITAR TRIO

Two Pieces by Duke Ellington

For classical guitar trio. Incorporating textural & harmonic devices from numerous recorded versions throughout Duke’s career, these arrangements vacillate between a traditional jazz vibe & austere contrapuntal episodes that conjure Bartók.

Satin Doll $12 (PDF, 6 page score & parts.) Listen on YouTube