The CD-ROM: A Supplemental Text, Linked to Audio Examples, plus Sheet Music!
Once you find the key-center sheets on these tunes so practical, you'll probably want to know how to analyze similar tunes yourself so that you can create your own key-sheets for other repertoire. So if you want to learn more jazz theory, the CD-ROM includes an additional text of more than 70 pages in PDF format. In a reader-friendly manner, this interactive supplement shows you how to analyze chord progressions and reduce them to basic key centers for you and your students. Not only can you print out the material, you can interact with it on your computer: it includes almost 70 musical examples, with audio linked to visuals in the supplemental text, prompted by a click of your mouse.

Also included as a self-test are several tunes in typical chord-symbol style that you can analyze yourself and then compare with the answers shown in the nearby key-center answer sheet.

Since the print book is available in five key/clef versions, the CD-ROM for each also includes an appendix of concert-key PDF lead sheets with chord symbols so that non-C instrumentalists can easily compare them with the theory analyses of the PDF text. Among the other appendices included is a Chord Symbol Primer and an annotated list of more than 10 pages discussing over 50 recommended recordings for the 13 tunes examined.

A tremendous bonus also awaits you on the CD-ROM. The good folks at Kjos Music had suggested that I make it possible for musicians to perform their own accompaniment, such as in an improv or ensemble classroom, rather than rely only on the excellent Play-Along CD. So the CD-ROM also includes printable PDF scores and parts for rhythm section (optional guitar, plus piano, bass, and drums). These charts match the form and style of the Play-Along CD and provide the level of notation you'd want for musicians newer to the jazz tradition: voiced chords plus chord symbols for piano, fretboard-guides for guitar, bass lines, and drum grooves. Any one or two of those printable rhythm sets elsewhere would probably cost the price of this entire book!