When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined bywhat your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception asan improviser is determined by your technique. If you can't play certain types of ideas, you are simply not going to conceive of them while you are improvising. Even if you could, it wouldn't matter, since you couldn't play them anyway. Thisbook presents serious chops-building technical studies for single note lines andchords. Plus, the examples feature a lot of harmonic content. The material is written in standard notation