Patterns for Jazz
Author : Jerry Coker
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Improvisation (Music)
ISBN : 9780769230177
Patterns for Jazz: A Theory Text for Jazz Composition and Improvisation
Author : Jerry Coker
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457493836
Book Description
Patterns for Jazz stands as a monument among jazz educational materials. Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity to the application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and scales -- from simple (major) to complex (lydian augmented scales).
Patterns for Improvisation
Author : Oliver Nelson
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2016-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781562243043
Book Description
One of the world's most popular patterns books, many jazz greats have fond memories of practicing from this great resource! It features an exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels. Comments and suggestions are included by the author---a legendary composer, arranger, conductor, and instrumentalist. This is a very popular book because it helps spell out some of the basic building blocks of the jazz language. It is regarded by many jazz teachers as one of the essential texts for their students.
250 Jazz Patterns (Bass Clef Edition)
Author : Evan Tate
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2019-05-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781794340947
Book Description
A new aid to learning Jazz Improvisation from the ground up in an easy to follow and easy to learn method. Plenty of exercises and jazz etudes.
The Jazz Theory Book
Author : Mark Levine
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457101459
Book Description
The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Author : Yusef Lateef
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release :
Category : Melodic analysis
ISBN :
Book Description
Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation
Author : Ramon Ricker
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1999-11-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457494109
Book Description
More than a pattern book, this lays out the theory behind the use of pentatonic scales in jazz, and follows with transcribed solos and exercises. Still a favorite after 14 years, this book has become a standard in the field.
How to Practice Jazz
Author : Jerry Coker
Publisher : Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781562240011
Book Description
An essential book for every jazz musician wishing to organize their practice time and priorities. Ever feel like you have a million things to practice, but you don't know where to start? Jerry condenses his decades in jazz education into a usable, practical book that highlights some of the best ways of dividing your practice time so that you can focus on the essentials, instead of just running over the same scales and tunes with no real direction. Includes a list of most of the Jazz play-along recordings available (by track) and analysis of each. Paperback.
Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Author : Nicolas Slonimsky
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2021-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781773238142
Book Description
Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. Think about this book as a melodic reference manual or plot wheel. Looking for new material to add to your playing instruction, improvisations, or composition? This book has more than you'll ever be able to use. Many serious musicians have a copy of this lying around somewhere.
Intermediate Jazz Improvisation
Author : George Bouchard
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Improvisation (Music)
ISBN :
Book Description
" ... Written to organize, codify, and demonstrate useful information which has proven to be helpful in learning to play improvised solos in the jazz idiom ... [for] the prepared player with some experience, who is looking for a deeper and more complete understanding of chord progressions and tune structures ... intended to provide information and insight to the serious player for the purpose of helping him of her develop more consistency in accomplishing the ability to play interesting, convincing jazz solos."--Preface
