Introduction
Part One: Rhythmic Freedom
1. Anticipating & Delaying Phrases
Part Two: Melodic Ornamentation
2. A Starting Place—Notes of Approach
3. A Starting Place—Notes of Departure
4. Connecting Melody Notes
Part Three: Melodic Re-Design
5. Replacing, Subtracting, Inverting Melody Notes
6. Tension Notes—The Appoggiatura
7. Projects
Part Four: Improvising Stylistically
8. Embellishing with the Pentatonic Scale
9. Blue & Hot: Basics of Blues & Gospel
Part Five: Extended Melodic Elaboration
10. Achieving Continuity through Sequences
11. Creating New Lines, Echoes
12. Reshaping Phrases, Paragraphs, Whole Pieces
13. Free Improvisation
Appendix 1: Chord Catalogue
Generated by Drs Barry Liesch and John Curtis Browning
Draft, March 15, 2011