Alfred's essentials of jazz theory: complete : lessons, ear training, workbook

Book 1. Basic elements (melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, form) ; Swing feel & swing eighth notes ; Swing groove ; Jazz melody & improvisation

syncopation, bebop style ; Jazz melody & improvisation

lick, line and melodic soloing ; Major triad, major scale, consonance ; Major seventh chords, chord changes ; Tonic function, scalar melody, passing & neighboring tones ; Dissonant 4th and resolution ; Subdominant major seventh chords ; Voice leading tonic & subdominant major seventh chords ; Modes, Lydian scale ; Hierarchy of 3rds and 7ths ; Major 9th chords ; Major 6/9 chords ; Major pentatonic scale ; Jazz language

grace notes, scoops & turns ; Dominant 7th and 9th chords ; Dominant function ; Resolution of V⁷ chords, tendency tones and tritone ; V⁷-IMaj⁷ common tones and voice leading ; Dominant scale (Mixolydian), bebop dominant scale ; "Bluesy" dominant chords ; Blue notes ; 12-bar blues progression, blues scale

Book 2. Counterpoint

bass and melody ; Walking bass lines ; Walking bass lines in the circle of fifths, two-note voicings ; Comping & comp rhythms, voice leading ; Brazilian bass lines & comping patterns ; Minor 7th and 9th chords & inversions ; Supertonic function

iimi⁷ and iimi⁹ chords ; Resolution of iim⁷ to V⁷ ; The ii-V-I turnaround progression ; Jazz language

combined scale/arpeggio & "the ii-V lick" ; Jazz language

triplet arpeggio & "the bebop dominant lick"

Dominant 13th chords & ii-V-I voicings ; Passing minor major 7th chord & progression ; Tonicisation of the IV chord ; The ii-V turnaround to IV ; Melody for the turnaround to IV ; II dominant seventh chords ; II⁹ chords, Lydian dominant scale, I augmented chord extension ; Diminished 7th chords & diminished scales ; The vii diminished 7th chord, #iv diminished 7th chord, diminished 7th melody ; The turnback progression & the VI⁷ chord ; AABA standard song form

"Take the A train" progression ; Jazz language

chromatic leading & passing tones, bebop scales ; Jazz language

auxiliary "enclosure" tones ; The jazz blues progression, finding the chromatics

Book 3. Jazz language

melodic soloing & melodic sequence ; Afro-Cuban jazz: clave & tumbau ; Afro-Cuban jazz: Cascara & Montuno ; Drop-two voicings ; Minor 11th chords & sus. chords ; Minor tonic chord, jazz minor scale ; Minor ii-V turnaround, half-diminished chord & V⁷(♭⁹) chord ; Resolutions and voice leading ; Jazz language

scales for the half-diminished chord ; Jazz language

harmonic-minor scale & lick for V⁷(♭⁹) ; Turnaround to iv in minor keys ; Minor turnback, VI⁷-V⁷(♭⁹)-i cadence ; Blues scale in minor keys, minor pentatonic & pentatonic/blues scales ; Turnarounds to III, VI and VII in minor keys ; Minor 12-bar blues progression ; Minor turnarounds in major keys

to ii and vi ; Minor turnaround in major keys

to iii, deceptive cadence (backdoor cadence) ; Altered Dominant chords ; Jazz language

diminished scale for dominant chords & altered dominant cell ; Jazz language

altered dominant lick and scale ; Step-down progression ; IV-I (plagal) progressions, backdoor progressions ; I-VI progressions ; ABAC standard song form ; Slash chords.