I'd be very happy to answer any questions. Leaving the majority of the work to the reader. Coker's approach is mainly Roman Numeral based and does not show many songs at all. Where the method is better than Coker's book is that it gives names to the common elements. When you are learning a brick or a join, you can electronically search through the songs to see where it occurs in the repertoire. It contains 238 roadmaps of standards and explains all the bricks and joins. It can be bought as PDF from my website for £12. There is an overview of the approach on my website: .uk Home. There are the podcasts and the there is the Google Group for discussing the method first described by Cork in his book and extended by me in my book. There are lots of free resources as already mentioned. The real benefit is from knowing what the common bricks are in jazz standards and equally important where they occur and how they are used in the song structure. Please don't get hung up on the terminology. ![]() As suggested, thought I would add my two pennyworth!
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