Vol.1 How to play Jazz

Beginning/Intermediate. Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. CD includes blues in Bb and F, four dorian minor tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants, 24-measure song, II/V7 in all keys. Book includes transposed parts for all instruments. The CD includes Jamey playing exercises from the book. Hear the master clinician show you exactly how it's done!

Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d)

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 play on a dorian scale and they did fine. That’s how I got started teaching improv. I think others at the time were using the blues as a vehicle but the students I was working with knew nothing about the blues but they could keep their place in the 4 and 8 bar phrases so I went ahead later and used that modal approach on my Volume 1 play-a-long ... and the rest is history.