The Serious Jazz Practice Book, for all instruments

Instructional book and accompaniment CD for all instruments. The Seriuos Jazz Practice Book provides a unique and comprehensive plan for mastering these basic building blocks of jazz, on any instrument.

All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to be complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal task. The Serious Jazz Practice Book provides a unique and comprehensive plan for mastering these basic building blocks of jazz, on any instrument.
-It takes all the diatonic, pentatonic, chromatic, whole-tone and diminished scales and gives you step-by-step exercises that dissect them into hundreds of useable patterns.
-The same is also done for all the chord types and intervals inherent in each scale.
-Many of the exercises are embellished with chromatic notes, giving them that jazz flavor right away.
-The companion CD has Barry demonstrating how to use the exercises to create great solos.
-The end result is a method book that will lead the reader to a deep, internalized understanding of the fundamentals of jazz.

CONTENIDO

Foreword

1. Diatonic Exercises
-The diatonic scale
-Diatonic interval studies
-Diatonic triad studies
-Spread triads
-Quartal triads
-Diatonic interval variations
-Diatonic seventh chords

2. The Pentatonic Scale

3. Arpeggio Studies
-Triads
-Seventh chord arpeggio studies
-Quartal arpeggios
-Diminished and augmented arpeggios

4. The Whole Tone Scale
-Whole tone interval studies
-Whole tone triad studies
-Whole tone variations

5. The Diminished Scale
-Diminished scale studies
-Diminished interval studies
-Diminished triad studies
-Diminished quartal triads
-Diminished seventh chord studies

6. The Chromatic Scale
-Chromatic interval studies
-Chromatic triad studies
-Chromatic diminished triads
-Chromatic pentatonic bits
-Chromatic seventh chord studies
-Chromatic 12-tone studies
-12-Tone interval studies
-12-Tone triad studies
-12-Tone seventh chord studies
-12-Tone circle of 4ths and 5ths studies
-Displaced chromatic scales studies

Appendix