How to play jazz and improvise

How to play jazz and improvise /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aebersold, Jamey (Performer)
Other Authors: Reid, Rufus (Performer), Higgins, Jonathan (Drummer) (Performer)
Format: Musical Score Book
Language:English
Published: New Albany, IN : Jamey Aebersold, [1992]
Edition:Rev. 6th ed.
Series:New approach to jazz improvisation ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Recorded accompaniments.
Improvisation (Music)
Jazz > Instruction and study.
Item Description:
  • "Play-a-long book & recording set for all instruments."
  • Volume 1.
  • Jamey Aebersold, piano ; Rufus Reid, bass ; Jonathan Higgins, drums.
  • Cover title.
  • Beginning ; intermediate.
Table of Contents:
  • Right brain, left brain
  • A guide for practicing any scale, chord, pattern, or idea
  • How to begin playing with the recording
  • Eighth-note exercises and swing
  • Additional resources
  • Beginning to improvise for the first time
  • Check list
  • Extending your range
  • Developing creativity
  • Starting a phrase or melody
  • Music fundamentals for improvising
  • What does 'to hear' really mean?
  • Practice procedure for memorizing scales and chords
  • Beats 1 and 3 are important
  • Recommended transcribed solo books
  • The bebop scale
  • Ear training
  • Pentatonic scale and its use
  • Chromaticism
  • Playing the blues
  • The blues conclusion
  • The blues scale and its use
  • Seventh chords
  • Time and feeling
  • Melodic development: tension and release
  • Elements which produce tension or relaxation
  • Related scales and modes
  • Points to keep in mind when improvising
  • Articulations
  • Nomenclature
  • Scale syllabus
  • Dominant seventh tree of scale choices
  • The music student's plea
  • Tune learning
  • Song list
  • Essential discography
  • Standard jazz tune list
  • Treble clef scales
  • Bass clef scales
  • Ten basic patterns: treble clef; bass clef
  • 48 seventh chords
  • Circle of fourths.

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