How to Play Bebop. Vol. 3: Techniques for Learning and Utilizing Bebop Tunes

A three-volume series that includes the scales, chords and modes necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music. The first volume includes scales, chords and modes most commonly used in bebop and other musical styles. The second volume covers the bebop language, patterns, formulas and other linking exercises necessary to play bebop music. A great introduction to a style that is most influential in today's music.

CONTENIDO:

1. The contrafact
2. A technique for learning tunes
3. A technique for learning and internalizing a composition using Bebop tunes
4. Using Bebop compositions and arrangements as a means of learning to play Bebop
5. The use of quotation in Bebop solos
6. An approach to developing thematic fluency using the "Piggyback" technique
7. Another approach to learning to improvise on the Blues
8. An approach to improvising on "rhythm" tunes
9. A list of essential Bebop tunes for memorization