Constructing Melodic Jazz Improvisation, B Flat Edition, Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Clarinet

A comprehensive new approach for beginning and intermediate level musicians.

Demonstration and play-a-long CD enclosed.

"Constructing Melodic Jazz Improvisation" contains detailed explanations and analysis of the creative and improvisational techniques musicians use to master style, phrasing, solo development and motivic improvisation in an easily to follow step-by-step format. Ten progressively difficult chapters, containing dozens of improvisational exercises, explore jazz improvisation from cretive, melodic and technical perspectives. The book is designed to meet all of the national standards and frameworks for music education and is a comprehensive improvisational curriculum for individual musicians or group.

The book includes a 52-track play-a-long and demonstration CD featuring Paul Schmeling (piano), Whit Browne (bass), James Lattini (drums), Jeff Galindo (trombone), Daniel Ian Smith (alto sax), Trent Austin (trumpet), and Brian Kane (tenor sax).

CONTENIDO:

Introduction. Constructing melodic improvisation

1. Articulation, swing feel, and stylistic inflection
-Articulation in improvisation
-Creating a swing feel in improvisation
-Style inflection in improvisation
-Exercises for continued exploration

2. Introducing the blues
-Why the twelve-bar blues and blues scale?
-Improvisational solo roadmaps, composing etudes, and scales
-Constructiong a blues scale
-The twelve-bar blues form
-Exercises for continued exploration

3. Beginning to improvise
-Beginning to improvise solos
-Melodic contour
-Location in form
-Exercises for continued exploration

4. The basic language of improvisation
-The question
-The answer
-The statement
-Playing rests
-Practicing repetition
-Rhythmic repetition
-Intervallic repetition
-Exact repetition
-Exercises for continued exploration

5. Basic improvisational phrase lengths
-The one-bar phrase
-The two-bar phrase
-The three-bar phrase
-Combining phrase lenghts
-Exercises for continued exploration

6. Developing melodic solos
-Shape and intensity
-Building intensity
-Decreasing intensity
-Practice solo for melodic development
-Creating roadmaps that build intensity
-Exercises for continued exploration

7. Using pickups in improvisational phrasing
-One-bar phrasing with pick-ups
-Two bar phrasing with pick-ups
-Three-bar phrasing with pick-ups
-Combining phrase lenghts
-Exercises for continued exploration

8. Putting it together
-Slow blues roadmap
-Medium blues roadmap
-Fast blues roadmap
-Exercises for continued exploration

9. Improvisational motifs
-The exact motif
-The rhythmic motif
-Intervallic motif
-Transposed motifs
-Shape motifs
-Exercises for continued exploration

10. Transitioning to harmony
-Playing bass lines
-Chord scales
-Beginning the transition
-Exercises for continued exploration

Appendix
-Blues progressions
-Major scales
-Blues scales
-Mixolydian scale
-Dorian scales
-Chord types
-Discography
-About the author
-CD track listing