http://www.justjazz.com/nmaj1.pdf
The adobe reader plugin doesnt display all the text properly on my
machine but if you print it out, everything will be there.
The basic idea behind these excercises is that, in my opinion, players
(at least those I listen to) essentially play in one key for as long
as possible.
In order to make that interesting they use various chromatic approaches.
These excercises must be practiced in time either:
1) By themselves.
2) While playing with the major vampos on Aebersold Major/Minor 12 keys
record.
3) Against a vamp (Band in a Box works) of : one bar of Cmaj7 followed
by one bar of G7sus.
The basic chromatic moves involve playing a half step below the note
you are approaching.
For these excercises, the target notes are all the notes of the major
scale.
The next possibility is playing some combination of a half step below the
target note and a scale step above the target note.
I have other excercises to develop other aspects of chromaticism and to
solve particular technical issues of various instruments but this
is a good starting set.
Enjoy.
reed