A new aid to learning Jazz Improvisation from the ground up in an easy to follow and easy to learn method. Plenty of exercises and jazz etudes.

The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.

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 application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and scales -- from simple (major) to complex (lydian augmented scales).

(Music Sales America). This book is a condensed, made-for-guitar version of Nicolas Slonimsky's publication Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns the book that musicians as diverse as John Coltrane and Frank Zappa used for ideas and inspiration. Musicians familiar with the original Thesaurus know that it contains a daunting amount of information crammed in its over 230 pages. But there is a definite symmetry and logic in these Slonimsky examples. What appear to be random patterns are actually mathematical combinations of some or all of the twelve notes in music. As the musician/student plays through the examples, the patterns will unfold and become more obvious.

Pentatonic scales! You hear them literally everywhere. From children's songs, folk songs, World music, Pop, Rock, Funk and Jazz music. Pentatonic scales are part of our natural understanding and hearing music.This book will focus mainly on the use of pentatonic scales in jazz music and improvisation. Although pentatonic scales are often associated with modal jazz or even today's smooth jazz. Pentatonic scales are more flexible and more useful than you may think, and I hope to reveal that to you in the following pages.

The AKAI Electronic Wind Instrument, as known as EWI (ee-wee) has been around for about 50 years and many developments have been made over the years. But for many, the ability to play the instrument with as much proficiency as one's main instrument hasn't been so successful. Some give up soon after starting. That's where this book comes in! It is designed to aid the EWI beginner (even advanced) player get over the hurdles of this marvellous instrument and begin to have real fun playing it! Fingering exercises Jazz and modern classical style etudes 180+ pages of material