Jazz Scales
Title | Jazz Scales PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Vigneau-Britt |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2017-11-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781976515309 |
Scales, chords, and exercises to help improve jazz improvisation and theory. This book is designed for students who know how to read music and want to improve their knowledge of jazz technique and theory. FAQ: What scales does this book include? All seven modal scales, five of the seven melodic minor modal scales, all whole tone scales, diminished scales, pentatonic and blues scales. Transcribed in every key! The full list is: Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Phrygian, Locrian, Lydian Augmented, Lydian Dominant, Ascending Melodic Minor, Half Diminished, Altered Dominant, Whole Tone, Diminished (Whole Step-Half Step and Half Step-Whole Step), Pentatonic and Blues Scales. Just the scales? Absolutely not! Each scale family includes exercises for practicing the melodies and harmonies produced by that scale. Are there exercises for each scale? Each exercise is written in one key, e.g. F Lydian, C Ionian, etc. You are strongly encouraged to learn the exercises in every key, but transcribing them in every key would require a book forty times longer! I know how to read music, but I'm new to jazz. Is this a good book for me? This is the perfect book for you! The essential melodic and harmonic tools for jazz improvisation are all here. This is a great way to increase your knowledge of jazz improvisation and theory. I am completely new to music. Is this a good book for me? Unfortunately, you need to know how to read music before using this book. Please come back to it when you know the basics and are ready to begin playing jazz!
Jazz Scales for Guitar
Title | Jazz Scales for Guitar PDF eBook |
Author | Corey Christiansen |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2015-10-27 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1610657063 |
This book will teach guitarists how to construct and play the scales and modes used in jazz improvisation. Through the study of these scales, students will expand their musical vocabulary for jazz improvisation. Scales are presented in standard notation, tab, linear diagrams showing the scales intervallic makeup, and fingering patterns. Recordings of the chord progressions and etudes are provided so the student can hear how these scales may be used in real life situations.
The Jazz Theory Book
Title | The Jazz Theory Book PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Levine |
Publisher | "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Pages | 725 |
Release | 2011-01-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1457101459 |
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
Title | Patterns for Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Coker |
Publisher | Alfred Music Publishing |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Improvisation (Music) |
ISBN | 9780769230177 |
Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Title | Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Yusef Lateef |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | |
Genre | Melodic analysis |
ISBN |
Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Title | Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Slonimsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2021-05-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781773238142 |
Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. Think about this book as a melodic reference manual or plot wheel. Looking for new material to add to your playing instruction, improvisations, or composition? This book has more than you'll ever be able to use. Many serious musicians have a copy of this lying around somewhere.
The Augmented Scale in Jazz
Title | The Augmented Scale in Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Weiskopf |
Publisher | Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2015-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781562240318 |
Hip up your playing with the signature sound of modern players. This book contains many exercises / etudes of varying levels, plus 12 solos written over standard chord changes which utilize augmented scales in both familiar and exotic ways. This is the world's most thorough examination and demonstration of the use of augmented scales in modern Jazz improv. An important book for all post-boppers!