THE

JAZZ WOODSHED
Practice ideas for the
modern jazz guitarist

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Digital Warmup Ideas Major ii-V Ideas
14243424 exercise 3 Line incorporating triads 32
Harmonic Minor Scale Tritone line using bebop scales 33
Alternating diatonic arpeggios 4 line incorporating triads 34
Melodic Minor Scale 5th-y line w/triads 35
Alternating diatonic arpeggios 5 line incorporating ^7b5 arpeggios 36
Arpeggios w/scale connection 6 Another line incorporating ^7b5 arpeggios 37
Bebop Scale Minor ii-V Ideas
Bebop altered scale 7 Line using all ^7b5 Arpeggios 38
More bebop alt. scale 8 Line using diatonic harm. min. arpeggios 39
Locrian #2 bebop 9 1235 Ideas
Pentatonic Scale 1235 pattern in 4ths 40
Pentatonic pattern 10 4th Ideas
Pentatonics in 4ths 11 4th cycle w/octave displacement 41
Diminished Lines Another 4th cycle 42
4 min7 arpeggios of dim. scale 12 4ths w/chromatic connection 43
Chromatic approaches to min7 arpeggios 13 4th applied to ii-V progression 44
C13(b9) line 14 another 4th ii-V line 45
Whole Tone Scale Drop-2 Chord Ideas
2-Octave augmented triad arps. 15 Ascending/descending min7 chords 46
Alternating augmented triads 16 Asending/descending diatonic chords 47
Triad Ideas Reharm Ideas
F/G triad pairs 17 bVI reharm over Rhythm Changes 48
Broken F/G triad pairs 18 Cyclic reharm over Blues 49
C, E, & Ab triads 19 Joe Henderson Reharm on “Without a Song” 50
Extended Arpeggio Ideas Transcribed Solo LInes
G lydian arpeggios (From 6th string) 20 Freddie Hubbard on “Birdlike” 51
G mel. min. arpeggios (From 6th string) 21
C lydian arpeggios (From 5th string) 22
C mel. min. arpeggios (From 5th string) 23
Major 7b5 Ideas
Bb^7b5 arpeggio 24
Eb^7b5 arpeggio 25
Enclosure Ideas
Bb major scale w/enclosures 26
C min scale w/enclosures 27
C major scale w/enclosures 28
Minor 7 Ideas
5th-y idea in A minor 29
Dominant Ideas
Bb alt. dom. line 30
Dom7#11 harmonic idea 31
 




                  

      
      



                   

      
      


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