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Making Melodic Minor More... well, Melodic

Two, blue

Melodic Minor Study

Shell Voicings (when less is more)
Mining the Melody (As published in Just Jazz Guitar, August 2006)
Relaxin' at Circa
Putting Things Together
Thoughts on Bop Comping
Shape Strategies for Rhythm Changes
Tetrachordal Trickery
Playing With Time
How I Did It
Weird Blues
The hard stuff
Pentatonic scale harmony
A lesson from Lester
Fun with patterns
Rhythm changes (part 1 + 2)
Chord-on-chord thinking
Chord-on-chord thinking, part deux
Playing Over Static Harmony
Bop-style Comping
"Inside" Voicings: Life between the E's
Finding New Voicings Through Inversion
Diminished Capacities (and Stupid Guitar Tricks)
Using Pentatonic Scales to Play on Turnarounds
Guitar vs. Horn
Working on Time
"Street-Smart" Altered Dominant Lines
ii-V7 Lines Using Altered Dominant Sounds
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