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Description

Description

Following on from the best-selling Jazz Method for Clarinet, "Developing Jazz Technique for Clarinet" will help the intermediate player take their jazz skills to a new level. The pieces are written in a variety of styles, including blues, swing, New Orleans, ragtime, jazz waltz, bossa nova, samba, salsa, calypso, reggae and South African. Particular emphasis is given to helping the student improvise over chord sequences, such as the II-V-I progression. Idiomatic effects like vibrato, subtone, glissandi and 'bending' notes are dealt with, and there is a special chapter on overtones. Several new scales are introduced, including the whole tone and diminished scales, and a section dedicated to patterns contains many ideas of practising in all twelve keys. A superb rhythm section provides backing for all the pieces and exercises on the accompanying CD.

Content

Ear-training
Phrasing and articulation
Improvising with modes and scales
Vibrato
Improvising on simple harmonic forms
J. S. Bach as a model for development of the melodic line
Special effects
More special effects
II-V-I in major and minor
More on the blues; transposition and melodic displacement
Diminished scales
Whole tone scales
2/4 time: Ragtime and Samba
The blues part III and 'Rhythm Changes'
Major scale patterns
Minor scale patterns
Pentatonic scales
Neighbour notes
A basic repertoire of tunes
Bibliography
Discography
Table of chord symbols
Table of modes
Trill fingerings
Notes
Chord progression for tunes (insert)

Sound Clips

Other editions

ED 12440 = Vol. 1