The first book to teach students to start soloing using rhythms instead of scales and chords. In a step-by-step fashion, Rhythm First! builds up the student's library of rhythmic figures and has them...
What exactly are the steps that lead to ability? In which order should they been taken? What will be required to master each one? These are questions the author has explored in this book, resulting in...
Jazz Improvisation & Pentatonic by Adelhard Roidinger is a comprehensive guide to scales and related chords, offering practical advice on how they may be used in jazz improvisation. The accompanying C...
Many of the great modern players have pentatonics at their command and melodic disposal. The book provides a practical yet creative approach to assimilating pentatonics into your melodic musical reser...
After 25 years of teaching, Dan has made available this wonderful pocket sized resource detailing the materials and techniques needed to play jazz. Includes chapters on chords & chord symbols, voicing...
Im Schwierigkeitsgrad fortschreitende Sammlung von vielen Patterns über die gebräuchlichsten Akkordsequenzen, mit Einblick in das Lydian Chromatic Concept. Die 'Patterns For Jazz' von Jerry Coker gehö...
Topics Covered Include:Basic functional harmony, diatonic substitutes, secondary dominants, passing chords, diminished harmony, tritone substitutes, non-functional approaches to harmonizing melodies i...
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Band 1 des Improvisations-Workshops, mit Erarbeitung von Solos anhand verschiedener Patterns, alle Playalong-Stücke in 2 Tempi, für alle Instrumente. This is the first in a series of books and audio/v...
Modale Patterns in dorisch, melodisch Moll, Ganzton- und gemischten Skalen u.v.m. 128 S.
Simple substitution, diatonic approach, adding dominant and subdominant chords, harmonic displacement, modal interchange, etc. , many examples and exercises
Learn to use and understand advanced jazz harmony! This book reveals the post-bop jazz innovations established by such iconic jazz artists as John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Clare Fischer, Herbie Hancoc...
Jerry presents an easy-to-understand no nonsense approach for quickly analyzing any tune to make it easier to understand, transpose, and improvise over. Thinking in Roman numerals, recognizing the com...
Jazztheorie I, Harmonik und Skalen Abkürzungsverzeichnis Einleitung Grundlagen Harmonische Analysemethoden Harmonische Analyse zur Bestimmung von Basisskalen Besonderheiten bei der Bildung von Skalen...
Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, counterm...
Invaluable text outlining the art of combo playing from master leader, player, and composer, Horace Silver. Includes sections on jazz philosophy, group and solo playing, composing and arranging, the m...
Comparable to a course, the reader will be guided step by step from the grassroots to more advanced and complex ways of writing. Here, it is not intended to simply float some apodictic rules that lack...
The goal of Volume 2 of 'Modal Jazz Composition & Harmony' is to continue the dissemination of information that presents a path of study for the aspiring jazz composer. Where Volume 1 of the book emph...
An incredible presentation of the most practical exercises an aspiring jazz student could want. All are logically interwoven with fine 'real world' examples from jazz to classical. This book is an ess...
500 Jazz Licks aims to assist you on your journey to play jazz fluently. These short phrases and ideas we call licks will help you understand how to navigate the common chords and chord progressions y...
Line Playing - Voice-Leading - Chromaticism - Bebop Scales A clear and practical step-by-step approach to chromaticism, line playing and voice leading. The CD contains 23 play-along tracks (most of th...
Time and rhythm are king! Number one! We are constantly aware of this fact when we are playing or listening to improvised music. All notes seem to sound good when they are played with good time. Even...
Developing a Jazz Language, is the sixth volume of Jerry Bergonzi's series, Inside Improvisation. Learning a language requires listening on many levels to the meanings, the sounds, the intentions, and...
Explores the 'hows, whats, and whys' of practice, performance, technique, and musicianship. Sometimes, it only takes a 'nudge' to move your playing to the next level. 6'x9' paperback. Why do musicians...
Much has been written about the jazz 'language' or the jazz 'vocabulary.' Linguistic references are sensible and proper because, just as we speak in words and phrases derived from the alphabet, so do...
Jerry Coker's new 84 page pocket-sized handbook teaches you not only 'how' to play in all 12 keys, but also 'why' it is essential to play in all 12 keys. This book is dedicated to all musicians who re...
Sure - everybody has an opinion on how to play 'outside'. But until now, no one has made an in-depth exploration of the commonalities and differences in how the greatest jazz players on the planet hav...
This long awaited 104 page book is THE defining treatise on the diminished scale. It explains everything you need to know about this versatile scale and how/where to use it in your solos. Includes 12...
A three volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music. The first volume includes sca...
This proven jazz study course covers every aspect of improvisation. Volume 1 is a method for developing technique, based on George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept.
A complete book of jazz technique studies and exercises for all instrumentalists. This text deals with many technique issues jazz musicians encounter in the real world, including chord scale exercises...
Patterns for Jazz stands as a monument among jazz educational materials. Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity to the applic...
For the fearful to the fearless, Approaching the Standards is an innovative, user-friendly approach to jazz improvisation. Designed for the individual or group, each of the three volumes of this play-...
All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exp...
Musikalisches Reaktionsvermögen und Flexibilität geben einer Performance erst den letzten 'Schliff'. Oft ist aber mangelndes Hörverständnis eine Hürde beim Improvisieren und Zusammenspielen. Hier setz...
Do you get a bit fuzzier on what notes and patterns to use when tunes leave the major key? Here's the solution!Minor is Major! will give you hundreds of ways to negotiate your way through chord progre...
This is a primer in jazz theory, intended to prepare the student for the serious study of jazz improvisation, arrangement and composition. The focus is on the harmonic language of jazz, especially the...
For all serious jazz musicians! From Coleman Hawkins to Chris Potter, the evolution of jazz style and harmony is carefully examined and clearly explained in this monumental work centered around iconic...
Jazz has evolved its own harmony apart from other genres of music. In order to improvise and compose in the idiom, a basic understanding of this harmony - how chords move and connect with each other -...
How do we bridge the gap between theory and the music we love? This book aims to establish as close a relationship as possible between theory, the ear and our instrument. 'Jazz Theory - Think Listen P...
This book by Gordon Delamont is a complete examination of the harmonic elements of modern arranging and composing. Adopted by high school and college music theory programs everywhere, it provides stud...
Renowned educator and writer Paris Rutherford has adapted the text he used for over 30 years in teaching university-level arranging at one of the nation's most illustrious jazz schools. For anyone wan...
Many different possibilities for harmonizing the same melody are illustrated and analysed, using techniques by such influential arrangers and composers as Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Oliver Nelso...
This book evolved from 40 years of teaching jazz composition and arranging plus 50 years of personal writing experience in the professional field. It is, therefore, a comprehensive study, covering pre...
...Something Borrowed, Something Blue is a broad survey of the wider principles of harmony, form, adaptation, and developmental technique underlying jazz composition in its various instrumental format...
The goal of this book is to show the student the means to develop latent creative abilities by offering the unfettered environment of the chromatic-modal system and free asymmetric form. The freedom o...
Jazz Session Trainer is the ideal resource for those players who want to hone their improvising skills, improve their chops, and feel at home in a jam session. In addition to a generous dose of scales...
Ausführlicher Improvisations-Kurs für alle Instrumente mit über 50 kurzen Stücken, mit je einem zu transponierenden Solo-Pattern, Jazz Hanon und Voicings. Die Stücke sind Anlehnungen an Standards mit...
More than just another chord/scale publication, this book addresses how melody function and context play a major role in determining the best possible scale to be used in a given situation. Excellent...
Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Instrumentalist is a collection of original pieces by master trombonist/composer J. J. Johnson. Designed as study material and playable by any instrument, these piece...
A valuable resource for learning the basics of jazz from Mike Steinel of the University of North Texas. It covers the basics of jazz, how to build effective solos, a comprehensive practice routine, an...
All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to be complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal task....
Many famous musicians have learned to develop their own unique jazz style using Berklee Professor Emeritus John LaPorta's techniques. First published in 1968 and now thoroughly updated and revised, hi...
A new thesaurus of hip melodic patterns for the contemporary improviser! The Bob Mover Jazz Lexicon is a comprehensive, detailed volume of melodic patterns, useful to not only improvisers and composer...
While nearly all great solos contain a delicate balance of contrast and continuity in the broader sense, (rhythm, range, harmonic interest & variation, dynamics, pacing, etc.) this concept illustrates...
In 'Beyond Time and Changes', acclaimed jazz trombonist, pianist, composer, arranger, teacher and author Hal Crook offers a methodology to guide the advancing improviser through the un-chartered music...
Uncommon Etudes from Common Scales will better equip students and challenge improvisers of all levels with etudes that travel through all keys using common chord types. Also, expand your melodic and c...
Revised Edition 2006 This book should be seen as a method to help the artist to develop his or her own way when trying to improvise chromatically. Through the concepts and examples offered, the improv...
As taught at Berklee College of Music READY, AIM, IMPROVISE! explores the critical areas involved in learning how to improvise, including: music theory, jazz harmony, ear training, jazz execution, jaz...
The jazz ballad provides our greatest opportunity for lyrical expression and represents the surest way to the musical heart. Traditionally, it has been the testing ground for a performer's worth, yet...
Let's Play Rhythm is one of the most versatile book/CD play-alongs available providing three CDs which offer a complete learning experience. You'll hear master musicians demonstrating the lessons in t...
Uncommon Bebop from Common Bebop Practices & Concepts demonstrates how to develop a colourful language for improvisation from common bebop practices and devices. Learn how to alter melodic lines beyon...
One of the most popular tunes of all time is Take Five. Musicians know that it's the 5/4 time that makes it swing. Since Dave Brubeck, more and more musicians have devoted themselves to playing in odd...
Hip up your playing with the signature sound of modern players. Contains many exercises/etudes of varying levels and 12 solos written over standard chord changes which utilize augmented scales in both...
A concise description of David's approach to playing over the stated tonality using chromaticism, polychords, derived chords, and non-diatonic scales. Includes a CD of David playing examples over sele...
John Coltrane's landmark composition Giant Steps used a new harmonic formula. This book examines it in detail as well as Countdown! Also, contains many practice exercises and solo examples plus, how t...
Legendary jazz educator Jerry Coker's newest contribution to jazz enlightenment, 'Clear Solutions For Improvisers' identifies all of the most common problems Jerry has encountered in his many students...
Large, spiral bound book based on the tonal concept of 'tension and release' that will provide students, teachers and pros with important principles of improvising melodic ideas, culminating in a crea...
Foreword by Stan Kenton and Gunther Schuller. An excellent treatise on the subject of Improvising Jazz. Can serve as a text book as well as a self teaching device. Covers all the improvisor's basic to...
A Study Guide for Developing Soloists - Newly revised format features a 274 page Book, two audio play-a-long/demonstration CDs, and a third CD with 168 printable pdf pages of transcribed solos (from t...
For all instruments. Motives - also referred to as motifs, licks, or clichés - are the building blocks of a good jazz vocabulary. This book shows how motives may be developed using simple five-note ma...
For All Instruments! By Ben Markley. Learn how to create your own etudes in the style of your favorite players! Doing so reveals their favorite phrases and stylistic tendencies, allowing you to better...
One of the world's most popular patterns books, many jazz greats have fond memories of practicing from this book! An exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels....
This book is Jerry's newest contribution to the tool box of all serious musicians looking for new ways to expand their creative range. An easy read, Jerry presents a variety of ideas and material incl...
An excellent book designed to assist musicians with their performance of contemporary (post be-bop) jazz. It focuses on utilizing fourths, pentatonics, modes, bitonals and other contemporary materials...
Im zweiten Teilband geht es um die Erschließung von Improvisationsmöglichkeiten. Erstmals wird ein Konzept entwickelt, aus dem heraus sich ein praktischer Zugang zu allen gängigen Möglichkeiten der Ja...
Includes: Lead sheets to ten tunes including two by Charlie Parker and one each by Mongo Santamaria and Zè Luis Olivera. A great play-along CD. Graduated difficulty of charts and solos. Transcriptions...
Celebrated Jazz Vibraphone and Marimba player Arthur Lipner has devised a set of books that will be terrific for introducing players with a desire to improvise in a group to the basic musical requirem...
Jazz Improvisation is for students who wish to hone their improvisation skills, and is applicable to all treble clef instruments. Designed to also improve single line sight reading and an awareness of...
This classic spiral-bound book, with a wealth of patterns, licks, and ideas, has been popular among jazz players for a long time. Page after page of material. Often referred to as a "jazz" version of...
This text presents all of the materials commonly used by the jazz musician in a logical order dictated both by complexity and need. The book is not intended to be either an arranging or improvisation...
This uniquely organized method devotes a thorough chapter to each of the prevailing tune-types of jazz---standard, bebop, modal, blues, contemporary, ballad and free form---listing and discussing thei...
Andy Jaffe's Jazz Harmony, one of the most definitive texts on the subject, goes into its third edition in 2009. Over the years the book has proven equally useful for students of all backgrounds, whet...
Using many audio examples, this comprehensive and practical textbook provides an understanding of the musical periods and styles from the late Middle Ages to the present age. Ideal as reference work o...
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43 jazz solo transcriptions as played by the legendary John Coltrane, including: Blue Train (Blue Trane) - Countdown - Cousin Mary - Giant Steps - Impressions - Lazy Bird - Lush Life - Mr. P. C. - Mom...
A unique guide on how to deepen your practice routine from one of the masters of contemporary jazz. 365 Days of Practice is the result of a project by Rick Margitza in which he posted an idea online e...
For all instrumentalists -- single - line writing, not full piano score. Over 150 pages of Chick's finest solos.
Hexatonic scales are six note scales. This book presents a practical method for the construction of hexatonic scales that are useful for both the improviser and composer. Many modern piano players use...
The Jazz Workbook Vol.1 is a first of its kind book. This book teaches the single note instrumentalist (including guitarist) how to hear and play thru chord changes. This is the essential element of j...
Der amerikanische Posaunist Bob Brookmeyer war im Laufe seiner Karriere in fast allen musikalischen Szenen zu Hause. Er arbeitete mit Dizzy Gillespie ebenso wie mit Gerry Mulligan oder George Evans. E...
Vinson Hill takes you on a spectacularly entertaining journey through jazz and the Blues, a layman's approach to this truly unique and original American art form. Filled with history, instruction and...
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