Do you want to learn how to improvise jazz? Then this is the play-along
for you! Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to
explore the secrets of jazz improv. Now with 2 CDs---one with slower
practice tempos! The first CD includes blues in B-flat and F, four
Dorian minor tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants,
24-measure song, II/V7 in all keys, and Jamey Aebersold playing
exercises from the book (hear the master clinician demonstrate exactly
how it's done). Beginning/Intermediate level.
Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins
(d). The second CD of slower tempos included in this Book & 2 CD set is
available separately for those wishing to upgrade their old single-CD
set they may have previously purchased.
Includes: Scales/Chords * Developing Creativity * Improv Fundamentals
* 12 Blues Scales * Bebop Scales * Pentatonic Scales * Time and Feel
* Melodic Development * II/V7s * Related Scales and Modes *
Practical Exercises * Patterns and Licks * Dominant 7th Tree of Scale
Choices * Nomenclature * Chromaticism * Scale Syllabus * and more!
NOTE FROM JAMEY:
When I first heard So What" on the Kind of Blue record, I didn't think
anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by
and this seemed so tame by comparison. I quickly fell in love with Kind
of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes
and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at
times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn't
see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase. When I
began teaching privately for the first time in Seymour, Indiana I had a
girl flute student who really had a great sound. One day I asked her to
improvise on a D- Dorian scale and off she went. I could tell she was
playing what she heard in her mind and I was so surprised. It really
sounded natural. So, I asked other students to "
