Jazz Pentatonics
Advanced Improvising Concepts for Guitar
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Guitar (All) - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: MB.20416BCD

Advanced Improvising Concepts for Guitar. Composed by Bruce Saunders. Saddle-stitched, Improvisation. Private Lessons Series. Jazz. Book/CD Set. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.20416BCD).

ISBN 9780786671670. UPC: 796279095532. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

Jazz Pentatonics is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and a CD is included in which the more difficult exercises are played at a slower as well as faster tempo. The CD was recorded with live drums, acoustic bass and guitar. All the exercises are included on the CD as well as play-along tracks that enable the student to play with a rhythm section. The book covers the minor 7, dominant 7, minor 7(b5) and major (b6) pentatonics and gives the student many etudes and exercises from which to draw improvisational ideas.

  • Chapter one: minor seventh pentatonic scale
  • Five perpendicular fingering exercises
  • Lateral fingerings
  • Harmonic uses of minor seventh pentatonic
  • Exercises, Study No. 1
  • Melodic voice leading introduction
  • Study No. 2
  • Practice starting notes
  • Chapter two: minor seventh flat five pentatonic scale
  • Harmonic uses of minor seventh flat five pentatonic
  • Five perpendicular fingerings
  • Minor ii-V-I patterns
  • Study No. 3
  • Ex. 15, delayed application of pentatonic
  • Ex. 16 Phyrgian chord use
  • Chapter three: dominant seventh pentatonic scale
  • Harmonic uses of dominant seventh pentatonic
  • Combination lateral/perpendicular fingerings
  • Ex. 18 & 19/major ii-V-I sequences
  • Study No. 4/F major blues
  • Study No. 5/C minor blues
  • Study No. 6/Solarize changes study
  • Chapter four: major flat sixth pentatonic scale scale
  • Harmonic uses of major flat sixth pentatonic
  • Ex. 20 & 21/ii-V-I sequence using skips
  • Study No. 7/Love changes with skips
  • Appendix: practice tracks & answer key
  • Practice track No. 1 Leaves key of G, minor seventh suggestions
  • Practice track No. 2 Leaves key of Bb, minor seventh suggestions
  • Practice track No. 3 Love changes, mixed pentatonic suggestions
  • Practice track No. 4 Solarize changes, mixed pentatonic suggestions
  • Practice track No. 5 F blues key of Bb, mixed pentatonic suggestions
  • Pracitce track No. 6 Yesterdaze, mixed pentatonic suggestions
  • Answer key for page 18
  • Answer key for page 19