SKU: HL.299481
ISBN 9781540060440. UPC: 888680956516. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Quick -- how many scales do you know? If you answered several, you're not alone. Lots of piano players know several scales, but how many really know what to do with them? With Pianist's Guide to Scales Over Chords, you'll learn how to apply the most used scales in a musical manner. We'll examine how scales and chords are closely linked and how this relationship is key to crafting memorable, intelligent solos. If you're stuck in a pentatonic rut or find yourself always coming back to the same old patterns, this book is for you. The online audio contains 178 tracks, including 15 extended backing tracks for practice! You'll learn: Diatonic Harmony Theory (intervals, scales, chord construction, etc.); Major and Minor Scale Applications; Inversions and Slash Chords; Seventh Chords and Extended Harmony; Modes (construction and applications); Playing over a Standard (Dominant) and Minor 12-Bar Blues; Non-diatonic Harmony and Modal Progressions. 14 scales are covered: Major Scale (Ionian) â?¢ Major Pentatonic â?¢ Minor Scale (Aeolian) â?¢ Minor Pentatonic â?¢ Dorian â?¢ Phrygian â?¢ Lydian â?¢ Mixolydian â?¢ Locrian â?¢ Blues Scale â?¢ Harmonic Minor â?¢ Melodic Minor â?¢ Lydian Dominant â?¢ Super Locrian.
SKU: HL.300636
ISBN 9780876392270. UPC: 888680962944. 9.0x12.0x0.411 inches.
Learn the Berklee approach to guitar chords. This book will help you develop fluency in basic fretboard harmonic knowledge, tone, time feel, facility, and endurance. You will learn to play, use, and understand guitar chords in a variety of styles and musical applications including blues, jazz, pop, and singer-songwriter styles. Develop a toolbox of chordal vocabulary including triads, four-part chords, and guide-tone voicings with tensions. Practice chords around the circle of fourths, in all inversions, and with substitutions, in etudes drills, and other contexts. Accompanying audio tracks let you practice the techniques and perform them with a live band. You will learn to: �?� Become a more expressive and versatile guitarist through developing a wider chord vocabulary of types and voicing options, learning to play with accuracy, tone, and a strong rhythmic feel. �?� Construct, understand, and play common and advanced chord types up, down, and across the fingerboard: triads, seventh chords, power chords, chords with tensions, and others. �?� Develop an intuitive understanding of how chords are built, from simple power chords and triads to four-part chords with altered tensions. �?� Choose chord voicings that make your accompanying parts and improvisations sound smoother �?? with harmonically sophisticated shapes that are easier to play.
SKU: MB.21114M
ISBN 9780786692767. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
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 Daves own fingerings shown in tab are also described. Perfect for intermediate-to-more advanced players, Daves 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 audio including tracks with a rhythm only section for student play-along. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: AP.1-ADV11216
ISBN 9783892210566. UPC: 805095112160. English.
Jazz harmony, as taught at the Berklee College of Music, is based on the so-called chord scale theory. This method---further developed---is now available as a comprehensive textbook for the first time---The Chord Scale Theory & Jazz Harmony by Barrie Nettles and Richard Graf. Emerged from practice and designed for practical use, it provides theoretical knowledge necessary for improvisation, composing, and arranging. Titles: Introduction * Harmonic Structures * Diatonic Harmony * Dominant Chords and Diatonic Function * Minor Key Harmony * Blues * Diminished seventh Chords * Dominant Chords with Special Functions * Modal Interchange * Voicing Specific Chord Symbols and Structures * Modulations * Modal Systems * Nonfunctional Harmony * Introduction to Arranging.
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