Six month home study course with 62 page workbook in tab and notation converted to PDF files with six "Work along" audio CDs converted to MP3 files, all delivered on CD-Rom.

Analyze complex harmonic progressions & songs in major & minor keys. Study the harmonic devices of professional writers, pivot chords & modal interchange. Discover diminished, whole tone & melodic minor scales creating an outside sound. Practice tracks, 109 exercises, 5 work sheets, 7 songs.

LESSON 1 SECONDARY DOMINANTS  Dissonance to consonance, tonal centers, deceptive & resolving cadences, labeling dominants, 2-5-1 progressions & pivot chords. Analyze & transpose songs & harmonic progressions.
LESSON 2 SECONDARY DOMINANTS IN MINOR KEYS  Diagram minor chord progressions, parallel major & minor, modal interchange, IV of IV, diatonic substitutions, modulating to relative minor or major & song analysis.
LESSON 3 DIMINISHED SCALES  Diminished & dominant, diminished scales, 3rds, triads & quadrants within the scale, scales around the cycle of 4ths & diminished sequences.
LESSON 4 WHOLE TONE SCALES  "Outside" sounds over static dominants, sequences within whole tones, augmented triad arpeggios, augmented triads, triads around the cycle & whole tone symmetrics.
LESSON 5 MELODIC MINOR SCALES Three unique soloing situations.  Dominant melodic minor in 5 scale positions resolving shapes in 5 octaves. Connecting positions & sequencing.
LESSON 6 MELODIC MINOR SCALES,cont. Create solos with altered dominant sounds & funky practice tracks. Minor chord and static dominant chords.  Learn "Xlento" & "Cantaloupe Island,” a funky Herbie Hancock tune