TABLE OF CONTENTS

     Acknowledgements iv
     About the Author v
     Foreword vi
     How to use this book vii
     Reading And Theory Basics 10
     How To Read Music 10
     The Grand Staff 11
     The Chromatic Scale 13
     The Major Scale 15
     Key Signatures 16
     Diatonic Intervals 16
     Non-Diatonic Intervals 17
     Diatonic Triads 17
     Seventh Chords  21
     Rhythmic Notation  24
     The Time Signature and Note Values 24
     Rests  26
     Dotted Notes And Rests 28
     Ties 29
     Counting 29
     Understanding Triplets 30
     Relating the Major Scale to the Major Seventh Chord 31
     Major Scales with Fingerings Plus Left Hand Chord Voicings 34
     Hand Position 34
     Practice Method 34
     Left Hand Chord Voicings 35
     A Note About Key Signatures 35
     Swung Eight Notes, Articulation and Phrasing 36
     The Scales 36
     Other Ways To Practice The Major Scale 40
     Patterns And Sequences 40
     Hearing Your Ideas 41
     "Making The Changes" 41
     Examples of Melodic Lines Using the Major Scale 44
    Your Ideas 46
     Major Scale Etude 49
     Further Exploration 54
     Jazz Piano - Suggested Listening 54
     What Next? 55