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Let's Play Jazz!
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Description
Start improvising today with internationally acclaimed jazz educator Martin Jacobsen’s easy approach to chords and scales and the building blocks of jazz! Moving from few notes to jazz lines and rhythms, you will learn the secrets behind a basic, and more advanced solo chorus. Martin’s work with saxophonists of every level has taken him around the world from Europe to East Asia, teaching hundreds of students the fundamentals of jazz.
Content
Introduction On the craft of Improvisation
Chapter 1 What is jazz improvisation?
Chapter 2 Preparation
Analysing the form and chord Progression
Finding a Chart
Chapter 3 Essential exercises
Bass line exercise
Arpeggios
Scales
Chord-scale Workout
Digital patterns and more
Chapter 4 Basic Improvisation
Long notes and embellishments
Diatonic lines
Chapter 5 Developing an easy solo Chorus
Arpeggios, scales and digital Patterns
Expanding the vocabulary: Melodic and harmonic concepts
Licks on II-V-I progressions
Transcribed licks and how to use them
Harmonic devices (1): Substitution
Harmonic devices (2): Superimposition
Chapter 6 Advanced Improvisations
Analysis
Chapter 7 Playing in other keys
Chapter 8 Learning a new jazz Standard
Appendix: Circle of Fifths
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