Mel Bay Publications
Level: Intermediate

Joe Diorio is an accomplished guitarist and composer as well as a respected music educator. In this book he combines his skills to present innovative "intervallic designs" for the guitar.

Written in standard notation and tab, these linear, often 12-tone flavored studies reflect Diorio's jazz roots and compositional mastery. Due to the harmonic ambiguity of these lines, the author recommends an experimental approach in applying these examples in various melodic and harmonic settings.
The companion stereo CD features Diorio's performance of each of the 96 studies in the book.

Contents:

• Introduction from Joe Diorio
• Table of Contents
• II–V Patterns
• Overview of Chord Substitutions
• II-V-I Substitution Examples
• Chord Substitutions for Dm7, G7, Cmaj7 
• Overview of 4th and 5th Shapes 
• 4th and 5th Chord Shapes for Lines and Comping 
• 4th and 5th Shapes for Lines
• Overview of Remaining Lines and Arpeggios 
• II-V-I 
• Evolution Jazz I 
• Cmaj7f5 Lines – In and Out
• 12-Tone Patterns 
• Cm7 
• Altered Dominants 
• More 12-Tone Patterns 
• Evolution Jazz II
• Overview of Original Compositions 
• Monk-ing
• Blues for All Space Cadet