Complete Jazz Keyboard Method: Mastering Jazz Keyboard
Mastering Jazz Keyboard
by Noah Baerman
Piano - Sheet Music

Item Number: 3669795
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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.

  • 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