Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble: Alto Saxophone

A comprehensive method for jazz style and improvisation. Book with Audio-Online.

This book will help you get started by introducing the important elements of jazz style and improvisation. You'll also learn basic jazz theory and some highlights of the history of jazz.

The exercises and composition in this book can be played by a full jazz ensemble, or individually with the dowloaded tracks. Listening to good jazz players is an extremely important way to learn, and playing along with the tracks is an excellent way to hear how jazz is played. The full band arrangements in this book include "sample" improvised solos for study and reference.

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CONTENIDO:

Jazz is...
The jazz ensemble
Improvisation
The rhythm section

The bassis of jazz style
-Attacks and releases
-Accenting "2 and 4"
-Playing Doo and Bah
-Playing Dit and Dot
-Swing 8th notes sound different than they look
-Quarter notes
-Jazz articulation review

Syncopation in jazz
Reading swing rhythms
"Jazzin' Up" the melody with syncopation
"Jazzin' Up" the melody by adding rhythms
Swingin' with Jack
Building jazz chords
The Blues progression
Building the dominant scale
Harmony review
Improvisation review
Improvising on the melody
Building the blues scale
Riffs and licks
Jazz expression: bends and scopes
Improvising with questions and answers (call and response)
Theory review: the dominant scale
Bebop uses "wrong" notes
The Bebop lick
Bebop scale
Latin and rock styles
Salsa caliente
Theory review: the minor seventh chord
Building the dorian mode
Blues scale review
Jazz ornamentation and expression