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| linear jazz improvisation: Functional Jazz Guitar Ed Byrne, 2010-12-01 Functional Jazz Guitar (Perfect Binding) Learn the skills needed for playing in a jazz group with this fun 255-page method. Practice specific cadence & blues comps; guide-tone & bass lines; rhythms, voicings and licks in major & minor, in all 12 keys - with 185 pages of inter-related sound files. Print and e-book formats available. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Linear Jazz Improvisation Method Ed Byrne, 2008-11-30 This text-only volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the core concepts and techniques of the Linear Jazz Improvisation Method. Using a wealth of examples from the jazz repertory, the book avoids theoretical terminology and focuses on the four essential elements present in every composition: melody, guide-tone lines, root progression, and rhythm. Understanding these building blocks of improvisation, you will be ready to put them into practice throughout your course of study. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony Bert Ligon, 1996 (Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Linear Expressions Pat Martino, 1989-05 (Stylistic Method). Legendary guitarist Pat Martino shares his personal formula for chord conversions with you. This uniquely simple system allows you to think melody, not theory. Amply illustrated with some of Pat's favorite lines. |
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| linear jazz improvisation: Creative Jazz Improvisation Scott D. Reeves, 2001 Designed for professionals and students alike, the material contained in this comprehensive volume can be applied to any instrument as well as classes or ensembles of varied instrumentation. In Creative Jazz Improvisation, readers will find: Detailed information on how to practice, how to improvise in a creative way, and how to teach jazz improvisation A complete explanation of all aspects of jazz theory and forms Practice materials designed to help the reader gain facility with the jazz vocabulary and develop his or her ear Keyboard, ear-training, and theory exercises Lists of important jazz compositions, indexed to the popular Aebersold play-along recordings Eighteen transcriptions of solos by master jazz artists-- analyzed, transposed, and edited for all instruments The third edition expands on previous editions by adding: A new chapter, Whom to Listen To, which lists major innovators, important contributors, and women in jazz Considerable expansion of the chapter on Rhythm and the section on Creative Jazz Improvisation New transcriptions of solos by Max Roach, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans Inspirational quotations by jazz masters, designed to motivate the student and give insight into the workings of the creative mind Author/trombonist/composer Scott Reeves draws on over twenty-one years of experience teaching at institutions such as the City College of New York, the University of Southern Maine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Memphis State University, and Western Washington University to create a book that covers all aspects of jazzimprovisation without superfluous information. Students and teachers alike will appreciate its accessible, well-organized approach to a complex subject. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Thinking in Jazz Paul F. Berliner, 2009-10-05 A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike. |
| linear jazz improvisation: The Jazz of Physics Stephon Alexander, 2016-04-26 A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics, --Amazon.com. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Jazz Theory Resources Bert Ligon, 2001 (Jazz Book). Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring outside the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included. |
| linear jazz improvisation: New Conceptions for Linear and Intervalic Jazz Improvisation Olegario Diaz, 2018-03-21 This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance contemporary jazz style techniques. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases from transcribed solos. These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones in order to achieve perfect coordination.Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages.There are none signature centers, therefore, all these exercises will be written accidental way. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Dave Stryker's Jazz Guitar Improvisation Method Dave Stryker, 2015-11-18 Dave explains his approach to jazz improvisation with musical examples that he himself uses, learned from years of playing with the greats - after learning how to play jazz from listening to players such as Grant Green, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. Explains the minor sub approach using minor scales to play over dominant seventh chords, and then includes several solos over often-played jazz standards, using this approach. Also described are the use of the blues and pentatonic scales as well as be-bop ideas, the melodic minor scale, and whole-tone and diminished scales and patterns. Hanon-type warm up exercises and Dave's own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players, Dave's concise way of explaining his approach will open up the students to developing their own improvisational ideas. Dave plays the examples and solos on the companion audio download including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Jazz Improv Jimmy Amadie, 1990 Jazzimprovisationskursus. |
| linear jazz improvisation: The Jazz Theory Book Mark Levine, 2011-01-12 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. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Forward Motion Hal Galper, 2003 |
| linear jazz improvisation: Ready, Aim, Improvise! Hal Crook, 2021-08 As taught at Berklee College of Music Ready, Aim, Improvise!, Book 1: Preparation and Jazz Vocabulary by Hal Crook explores the critical areas involved in learning how to improvise, including: music theory, jazz harmony, ear training, jazz execution, jazz vocabulary, practicing, self-critiquing, career planning, and much more. Ready, Aim, Improvise! is filled with musical examples, exercises, and practice routines that help make the learning process easy and enjoyable. Two enclosed play-along CDs feature modal, key-area, and modulating chord progressions performed at a slow, manageable tempo. Ready, Aim, Improvise! is a clear, comprehensive study of the most important steps in a jazz musicians education. Don't be surprised if it gets you practicing more and playing better in no time at all! So get Ready . . . Aim . . . Improvise! |
| linear jazz improvisation: Chord-Scale Theory and Linear Harmony for Guitar Jonathan Pac Cantin, 2010-12-01 Chord-Scale Theory and Linear Harmony for Guitar: Creative Tools for Improvisation and Composition in Contemporary Music is a guide to music theory as it relates to the guitar fretboard. It covers topics such as intervals, scales and modes, chords and voicings, progressions, and melodic devices and how they are commonly used in contemporary Western music. It thoroughly explains basic harmony as well as the complex harmonies used in jazz. It contains examples in standard notation, guitar TAB, fretboard diagrams, and charts. Great for intermediate and advanced guitarists looking to expand their horizons and musical creativity. |
| linear jazz improvisation: The Goldman Method Jason Goldman, 2012-06-01 |
| linear jazz improvisation: Perpetual Frontier Joe Morris, 2012 |
| linear jazz improvisation: John Coltrane Michael Brecker Legacy Olegario Diaz, 2015-12-21 My 3rd book on music, post bop jazz improvisation for all instruments by Olegario Diaz. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Twelve Tunes Eddie Lewis, 2008 Have you ever tried to improvise? There is so much frustration in the beginning years of improvisation that many players assume they just can't do it. They assume jazz improvisation isn't their thing. Do you feel this way? Is improvising something you want to be good at, but it is just too difficult to get started? The tunes in Twelve Tunes were composed for musicians who already have an intermediate technical ability on their instrument, but are new to the world of jazz improvisation. Using this book, you can sound good improvising within minutes. Simply follow the directions on the first four pages of the book, which will explain why these twelve tunes are different from standard jazz compositions and why it is so easy to sound good when you play them. This is only the first step in your progress as a jazz improviser. Unfortunately, it is a step often passed over in most jazz improvisation methods. Other methods tend to have a sink or swim approach with the beginners - either you have what it takes or you don't - and this can be very discouraging. With Twelve Tunes: for Linear Diatonic Improvisation, you have the opportunity to sound good now and get your foot in the proverbial jazz improvisation door. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Robert Hodson, 2007-01-18 Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised lines of the soloist and their underlying harmonic progressions. This approach overlooks the basic fact that when you listen to jazz, you almost never hear a single line, but rather a musical fabric woven by several musicians in real time. While it is often pragmatic to single out an individual solo line, it is important to remember that an improvised solo is but one thread in that fabric; and it is a thread supported by, responded to, and responsive of the parts being played by the other musicians in the group. Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance explores the process of player interaction in jazz, and the role this interaction plays in creating improvised music, including: jazz improvisation through theory and analysis musical roles, behaviours and relationships harmony, interaction and performance Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance will appeal to students of jazz history, composition, and performance, as well as to the general jazz audience. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Jazzology Robert Rawlins, Nor Eddine Bahha, 2005-07-01 (Jazz Instruction). A one-of-a-kind book encompassing a wide scope of jazz topics, for beginners and pros of any instrument. A three-pronged approach was envisioned with the creation of this comprehensive resource: as an encyclopedia for ready reference, as a thorough methodology for the student, and as a workbook for the classroom, complete with ample exercises and conceptual discussion. Includes the basics of intervals, jazz harmony, scales and modes, ii-V-I cadences. For harmony, it covers: harmonic analysis, piano voicings and voice leading; modulations and modal interchange, and reharmonization. For performance, it takes players through: jazz piano comping, jazz tune forms, arranging techniques, improvisation, traditional jazz fundamentals, practice techniques, and much more! |
| linear jazz improvisation: Chris Potter Jazz Styles Olegario Diaz, 2016-09-30 This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques. The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Chris Potter. These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination. Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages. There are none signature centers, so all these exercises will be worked accidentally. This project is an extension of my last three methods of improvisation: * Improvise Now *220 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz lines phrases *Herbie Hancock lines voicings and rhythms from transcriptions. *John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy |
| linear jazz improvisation: Berklee Jazz Piano Ray Santisi, 2009-01-01 (Berklee Guide). Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music and mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousands of others reveals the pedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels, Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep, practical understanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated on the accompanying online audio, where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and original compositions, and how you can do the same. You will learn: * Jazz chords and their characteristic tension substitutions, in many voicings and configurations * Modes and scales common in jazz * Techniques for comping, developing bass lines, harmonizing melodies, melodizing harmonies, and improvisation * Practice techniques for committing these concepts to your muscle memory * Variations for solo and ensemble playing * Advanced concepts, such as rhythmic displacement, approach-chord harmonization, and jazz counterpoint |
| linear jazz improvisation: The Jazz Piano Book Mark Levine, 2011-01-12 The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc. |
| linear jazz improvisation: State of The Art Postbop Intervalic Jazz Improvisation Exercises and Lines Phrases Olegario Diaz, 2018-08-21 This book is a summary of both exercises and improvisation lines designed to enhance Intervalic Improvisation. The book covers scales, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz line phrases from transcribed solos. These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones in order to achieve perfect coordination. Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale wise, arpeggios and chromatic passages. There are none signature centers, therefore, all these exercises will be written accidental way. This project is an extension of a 6 chapter collection on improvisation by the same author: * Improvise Now * 240 Chromatic Exercises + 1165 Jazz Lines Phrases * Herbie Hancock. The Blue Note Years * John Coltrane & Michael Brecker Legacy * Chris Potter Jazz Styles * Bidirectional Contemporary Jazz Improvisation * New Conception for Linear & Intervalic Jazz Improvisation |
| linear jazz improvisation: Listening to Jazz Jerry Coker, 1978 |
| linear jazz improvisation: Contemporary Latin JAzz Guitar Neff Irizarry, 2nd, 2021-11-20 A complete guide to playing Latin music on guitar |
| linear jazz improvisation: THE LANGUAGE OF JAZZ Antonio Parker, 2017-10-22 Book 9 Minor-Major 7th Phrases (New Edition) |
| linear jazz improvisation: Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony , 1996-05-01 (Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Simplified Guide to Jazz Improvisation: Linear and Non-Linear Terry Janow, 2020-08-22 An advanced educational workbook for those wanting to learn about jazz Improvisation. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Three-note Voicings and Beyond Randy Vincent, 2011-01-11 This book provides discussion and exercises for the use of three-note voicings in jazz guitar. The book also includes some four and five-note voicings. Includes chapters on shell voicings, walking guitar, triad pairs, quartal and secundal harmony, and more. With an introduction. |
| linear jazz improvisation: The Augmented Scale in Jazz Walt Weiskopf, Ramon Ricker, 2015-04 Hip up your playing with the signature sound of modern players. This book contains many exercises / etudes of varying levels, plus 12 solos written over standard chord changes which utilize augmented scales in both familiar and exotic ways. This is the world's most thorough examination and demonstration of the use of augmented scales in modern Jazz improv. An important book for all post-boppers! |
| linear jazz improvisation: New Concepts in Linear Improvisation Ramon Ricker, 1977 |
| linear jazz improvisation: Piano Essentials Ross Ramsay, 2005-08 (Berklee Press). Learn piano basics, as required of every piano major at Berklee College of Music. The exercises featured in this book will help you improve your sight-reading skills, and memorize new material in less time and with more confidence. Scales, chords, arpeggios, and cadences will improve your tone, dynamic range, and sense of rhythm. You will become more comfortable with fingerings, develop speed and agility on the keyboard, and will build a foundation for further study. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Contrapuntal Improvisation Serge Pierro, 2020-10 The first book to teach the necessary mechanisms in an organized format that will be used for improvising two lines at once on the guitar (bass lines and melody lines). The material covered in the method includes: All of the diatonic seventh arpeggios in both ascending and descending forms, organized by the root in the bass, third in the bass and the fifth in the bass. Scale fragments with both static and moving bass lines. Basic rhythms with moving lines and syncopation. Each of these sections is further broken down into individual chapters focusing on a specific aspect of the topic. The material is geared towards both the intermediate and advanced guitarist. Topics such as fingerings, finger stretches and finger independence are also discussed. Having taught professionally for 35+ years, the author has the experience and curriculum to help takes students to the next level. The book is suitable for guitarists interested in players such as Ted Greene, Chet Atkins, Howard Morgen, George Van Eps, Jimmy Wyble and Charlie Christian. Classical guitarists looking to build a foundation on learning how to improvise multiple lines, will find the material suitable for their technique. Although improvisation is the focus of the book, the material can also be used for composition and song writing. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Patterns for Improvisation Oliver Nelson, 2016-02 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. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs Jamey Aebersold, 2015-02 Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training is a no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. It starts very simply, with intervals and gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers are listed in the book, and contains transposed parts for C, B-flat, and E-flat instruments to allow playing along. Beginning to advanced levels. |
| linear jazz improvisation: Harmony with Lego Bricks Conrad Cork, 1990 |
| linear jazz improvisation: New Concepts in Linear Improvisation Ramon Ricker, 1977 |
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