Complete Jazz Keyboard Method: Mastering Jazz Keyboard
Mastering Jazz Keyboard
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SKU: AP.17861
Mastering Jazz Keyboard. Keyboard/Piano; Method/Instruction. National Keyboard Workshop Book - Approved Curriculum. Instructional, Method, Jazz and Play Along. Instructional book and examples/accompaniment CD. With leadsheet notation, standard notation and instructional text. 96 pages. Alfred Music #00-17861. Published by Alfred Music (AP.17861).ISBN 9780882849140. UPC: 038081159706. 9x12 inches. English.
The conclusion to this jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings, modal soloing, substitution, reharmonization, modes of the minor scales, diminished and whole-tone scales, walking bass, stride piano technique, non-diatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music, this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist's journey into jazz. The CD includes examples and opportunities to play along.
Song List (90)
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Review
- Modes of the Major Scale
- Extended and Altered Chords
- Substitution
- Making the Changes
- Loafin' Blues
- Chapter 2 - Modal Playing and 4th Voicings
- 4th Voicings
- "So What" Voicings
- George's Concept
- Parallel Voicings
- George's Concept: Parallel So What Voicings
- Modal Soloing
- Lyricism and Pacing
- Chords
- Sidestepping and Resolving
- George's Concept: Sample Solo
- Chapter 3 - Advanced Substitution & Reharmonization
- Cycles
- Rhythm Changes
- Riffin' in Rhythm
- Talk to Me, Brownie
- Remembering Two Giants
- Sample Rhythm Changes Solo
- Coltrane Changes
- It Takes Big Feet
- All Them Thangs Trane Was
- Ted, Can You Dig It?
- Putting These Substitutions to Work
- Chapter 4 - New Scales
- The Jazz Melodic Minor Scale
- Modes of the Melodic Minor
- The Melodic Miners
- Symmetrical Scales: Diminished & Whole Tone
- Condiment Man
- Modes of the Harmonic Minor
- Greene Machine
- The Lydian Diminished Scale and Its Modes
- Lennieage
- Un Portrait de Michel
- Blues For Yusef
- Chapter 5 - Triads & Pentatonic Scales Revisited
- Triads Revisited
- Upper Structures
- Chart: Triad Possibilities For 7th Chord Voicings & The Extended Colors They Imply
- You Neeque: Chord Study with Upper Structures
- Bi-Tonal Triads
- Keith's Inspiration
- Climb That Beanstalk
- Pentatonic Scales Revisited
- Herbie Times Five
- Herbie Times Five: Sample Solo
- Using Multiple Pentatonics in Modal Playing
- George's Concept: Sample Solo with Multiple Pentatonics
- Pentatonics in Modal Playing: "Takin' it Outside"
- George's Concept: Sample Solo with Outside Pentatonics
- Chapter 6 - Solo Playing
- Big Brother Hank
- Walking Bass
- Big Brother Hank: Walking Bass
- Stride
- Big Brother Hank: Stride
- Leaving More Space
- Big Brother Hank: Sample Solo
- Ballads
- An Evening With Kate
- Playing the Melody
- An Evening With Kate: Solo Keyboard
- An Evening With Kate: Sample Solo
- Chapter 7 - Building Intensity
- Octaves
- Tune for Timmons
- Block Chords: Locked Hands Style
- Lock-Up
- Rhythmic Devices
- Bley-Zin
- Clusters
- Cecil's Revolution Blues
- Non-Diatonic Progressions
- Shorter But Hipper
- Playing Over Non-Diatonic Changes
- Voicings
- Shorter But Hipper: Sample Solo
- Chapter 8 - Afterwords
- Maybe
- Maybe: Sample Solo
- Special Situations
- Recordings