Volume 1 - How To Play Jazz & Improvise - BOOK ONLY

BOOK ONLY

BOOK ONLY

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Product Code: V01BK
Author: Jamey Aebersold
Publisher: Jamey Aebersold Jazz
ISBN-13: 978-1-56224-122-3
Publisher SKU: V01BK
UPC-A: 6 35621 00001 8


Play-A-Long Book ONLY! Beginning/Intermediate. Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. Book includes transposed parts for all instruments.

Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d)

Includes:

  • Scales/Chords
  • Developing Creativity
  • Improv Fundamentals
  • 12 Blues Scales
  • Bebop Scales
  • Pentatonic Scales
  • Time and Feel
  • Melodic Development
  • II/V7s
  • Related Scales and Modes
  • Practical Exercises
  • Patterns and Licks
  • Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices
  • Nomenclature
  • Chromaticism
  • Scale Syllabus
  • and more!


  • NOTE FROM JAMEY
    When I first heard "So What" on the Kind of Blue record I didn’t think anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by and this seemed so tame by comparison. I quickly fell in love with Kind of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn’t see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase. When I began teaching privately for the first time in Seymour, Indiana I had a girl flute student who really had a great sound. One day I asked her to improvise on a D- dorian scale and off she went. I could tell she was playing what she heard in her mind and I was so surprised. It really sounded natural. So, I asked other students to play on a dorian scale and they did fine. That’s how I got started teaching improv. I think others at the time were using the blues as a vehicle but the students I was working with knew nothing about the blues but they could keep their place in the 4 and 8 bar phrases so I went ahead later and used that modal approach on my Volume 1 play-a-long ... and the rest is history.