Arpeggios

• Major7/9 arpeggios through cycle 5
• Afternoon In Paris
• Giant Steps
• God Bless the Child
• Three Flowers
• IMaj7 IIm7 V7 Key of C Position II
• IMaj9 IIm9 V9 through Cycle of Fifths
• IMaj7 IIm7 V7 Fingering Type II through Cycle of Fifths

Scale studies

• Scale exercise 1-2-3-7-6-5-4-3 in all keys
• Warmup - scale sequences, key of Bb, fifth position
• Warmup - scale-step above, half-step below each scale degreee
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Scale Exercise 1-2-3 2-3-4 Position VII
• Scale Exercise Real Melodic Minor 1-2-3 2-3-4 Position VII

Arpeggios and Scales

• Blue Bossa
• Tune Up - exercise 1
  • MIDI file
• Tune Up - exercise 2

Walking Bass with Chords

• Walking Bass Exercises
• All the Things You Are Updated with sound clip
• Polkadots and Moonbeams Includes sound clips
• Lullaby of Birdland
  • MP3
• Easy Living

Comping

• You Go To My Head - intro
• • MP3

• Chord Warmup - min7b5

• Chord Warmup - Eb major voicings
  • MP3

• Chord Warmup - G major voicings II-V-I-VI-II-V-I
  • MP3

• Peace - accompaniment with bass line
• Peace - comping voicings
  • MP3
• James
• Swing Rhythms
• Latin Rhythms (Bossa)
• Recordame - rhythm "kicks"
• Freedom March - rhythm "kicks"
• Israel
  • MIDI file
• Easy Living - "Freddie Green Style"
• A Foggy Day - four bar drop2 exercise
  • MP3
• Afternoon In Paris - drop 2 voicings (1st 8 bars)
• Lady Bird - 3-note voicings
• Blues comping with 3-note voicings
• Here's That Rainy Day - 3-note voicings
• 3-note voicing exercises
• Body and Soul - drop-2 and drop-3 voicings
• Whisper Not - 3-note voicings example, includes melody and bass line
  • MIDI file
• Autumn Leaves - comping "kicks"
  • MP3
• Autumn Leaves - comping with 3-note voicings
  • MP3
• Little Waltz
• Bright Size Life
• Falling Grace - 4-note voicings
• Lucky Southern
• Comping rhythms - anticipations and delays
• Forest Flower - voicings including seconds
• 12-4 2-4 Duplicities
• How My Heart Sings (changing meter, polyrhythms)
• Skating in Central Park
• Voicings based on intervals
• Smile - comping voicings
  • MP3
• Wonderful World - accompaniment - pick & fingers
  • MP3
  • Notated voicings
• Nostalgia in Times Square - comping with bass line
  • MP3
• Isfahan - voicings
  • MP3

Bossa Nova Comping

• Wave
  • Other voicings for the bridge
• How Insensitive
• Blue Bossa - three-note chords

Beguine Comping

• Once I Loved
• Yellow Days

Funk Rhythms

• Tough Talk
• Lady Bird (as a funk tune)

Chord-melody

• If You Never Come To Me - Trio-style head arrangement
  • MP3 (home studio, with Notion bass)
  • MP3 (with trio on a gig)
• Have You Met Miss Jones? - Trio-style head arrangement
• This Nearly Was Mine - chord solo

Triad Studies

• Diatonic Triads and Tonal Centers
• 3-note Voicings - Cycle 5 and Diatonic
• Progression Using Diatonic and Passing Diminished Triads
• I vi ii V Progression Using Triads
• Substitutions in Triads
• Applying Triads to Comping (article at JazzGuitarLife.com)
• Progression Using Triads and Substitutions
• Upper Structure Triads for Comping
• Upper Structure Triads for Melodic Figures - Introduction
• Upper Structure Triads for Melodic Figures

Interval Studies

• Giant Steps

Trills

• Trill Exercise

Motif Studies

• Dindi
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Motivic Development Techniques

Guide Tone Line Studies

• Autumn Leaves

Scints -- Scales in Intervals

• Scints

Duets

• Original Compositions
  • Reading Studies (composed by Steve Carter)
  • Presence Chambers (composed by Steve Carter)
  • Wandering Gnome (composed by Steve Carter)
    • MP3 file
  • Fragments (composed by Steve Carter - solo guitar piece)
    • MP3 file
• Standard Tunes
  • Cute - Chord melody & walking bass
  • A Child Is Born
  • In Your Quiet Place

Guitar Ensemble Arrangements

• Interface - short piece for 4 guitars, composed by Steve Carter (Score - revised Jan 2007)
  • MP3 file
  • Guitar 1
  • Guitar 2
  • Guitar 3
  • Guitar 4
• Pursuit of Image : Image of Pursuit - short piece for 3 guitars, composed by Steve Carter (Score - revised Jan 2007)
  • MP3 file
  • Guitar 1
  • Guitar 2
  • Guitar 3
• Arrangements for five guitars, rhythm, bass, and drums.

Other

• Excursions
• Melodic Expression
• Phrasing
• Afternoon In Paris - phrasing
  • MP3
• Polyrhythms Chart
• Sight Reading article at ibreathemusic.com
• Music book list
• Sight reading book list
• Improvisation: What you need to know. What you can use.
• What to listen for in your practicing
• List tunes using selected chord types.
• List tunes using a selected mode.
• Scale/Mode Syllabus
• Berklee Chord Lab exam from 1983
• Mental Calisthenics
• Analysis of Bill Leavitt's Chord Etudes - including comping tips
  • Chord Etude #4
  • Chord Etude #5
  • Chord Etude #6
  • Chord Etude #7