Building A Jazz Vocabulary

From the jazz novice to budding professionals this play-along series is designed to help individuals build a melodic harmonic ans rhythmic jazz vocabulary. Eight classic jazz tunes are featured on each play-along CD for students to listen analyze transcribe ans commit to memory. Each tune gives the player the opportunity to hear the jazz language performed by professional musicians as if they were performing at a real gig.

This comprehensive step-by-step guide will get you soloing like a true Jazzer by providing a complete understanding of chords scales and solos based around four popular standards.Whether you are new to Jazz playing or are looking for a way to progress from your current level Sokolow's approach will have plenty to offer you to lift your improvising and help you understand the potential in these great tunes. Each of the four tunes has a different level of difficulty offering a choice of starting points to suit your own experience.Song 1: First position chordsSong 2: Moveable chords and a more developed harmonic vocabularySong 3: Substitutionsand re-harmonisationSong 4: An improvisational chord solo over a given set of changes.Along the way you'll find a generous level of guidance and support. Furthermore an accompanying CD features all the backing tracks and demonstrations you could possibly need.This is the ideal choice to develop your Jazz vocabulary as well as your improvising confidence - no matter what your playing level.

Par ARMACOST TIM. The ultimate guide to playing saxophone, by NY jazz artist Tim Armacost ? for anyone from beginners to professionals. Rooted in practical skills and going far beyond theory, The Jazz Saxophone Book will improve your ability to construct beautiful, flowing solo lines. The book includes access to over 30 videos of the author demonstrating ideas in the book and hundreds of examples of solo phrases by the masters of jazz saxophone. For the beginning improviser, we cover: ? Creative ways to work on sound, time and building a jazz vocabulary ? Connecting your soloing with your internal singing voice ? Foundational jazz harmony - what you need to know! For intermediate players, the book offers: ? In-depth treatment of jazz harmony, with copious examples from the masters of the tradition ? Ideas for becoming a musical storyteller ? Skills needed to show up at a jam session and confi dently perform a tune For more advanced players, the book discusses: ? Using advanced harmony to build and release tension ? Taking jazz vocabulary, harmony and form into the realm of freedom ? How to practice efficiently to become a well-rounded, continually improving soloist / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Méthode / Saxophone

Par MOEHRKE PHILIPP. Gain listening and playing experience using the building blocks of the Jazz vocabulary in the most diverse styles, learn about important improvisational patterns and encounter exercises that give you a solid basis for developing your own improvisations. Alongside “Voicing Concepts” and “Solo Concepts”, this book delivers one of the three important pillars in a thorough approach to the Jazz piano and its practical fundamentals. / Jazz / Recueil / Piano

To become fluent in the language of jazz and music in general musicians must develop equality of all twelve keys.The goal of the Jazz Guitar Chord Thesaurus is not only to provide a reference for learning chord fingerings but to offer a daily practice routine to increase the guitarist's vocabulary of chords. The Jazz Guitar Chord Thesaurus will provide a clear cut path to learning all the inversions of seventh chords by using the two main building blocks of jazz harmony: major and minor ii-V-I chord progressions. The accompanying CD includes backup tracks to 10 jazz standards to allow guitarists to applytheir new chord vocabulary.

With over 40 years of experience as a performer recording artist and instructor Joe Diorio has worked with such jazz luminaries as Sonny Sitt Eddie Harris Ira Sullivan Stan Getz Horace Silver and Anita O'Day. In this DVD Joe discusses and demonstrates his techniques of composing and building solos with motifs along with many unique patterns for major and minor II-V-I progressions. Joe also includes his system for expanding your chord vocabulary to help you develop more contemporary and exotic chord changes. His inspiring solos will give you a rare look at jazz from one of the world's greatest players. DVD special features include: a preview of HerbEllis: Swing Jazz Soloing and comping a preview of Joe Pass: Jazz Lines and a DVD-Rom with the complete video formatted for computer and i-Pod.

Discover an alternative approach to Jazz improvisation to the usual endless scalic runs by taking advantage of the Guitar's triad possibilities with this special tutorial. Part of the world-renowned BerkleePress tutor methods this intuitive approach uses triads - the fundamental building blocks of harmony - as a simple and effective remedy for scale dependency in improvisation. Learn how to recognise and find triadsquickly all over the fretboard and how to connect them using guide tones. The result is a warm and complex vocabulary that is rich in harmony and progression and reminiscent of the Jazz Guitar greats such as WesMontgomery Kenny Burrell George Benson and Pat Martino.