How to Play Jazz and Improvise

How to Play Jazz and Improvise

by Jamey Aebersold
2/5

Do you want to learn how to improvise jazz? Then this is the play-along for you! Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv.

Now with 2 CDs---one with slower practice tempos! The first CD includes blues in B-flat and F, four Dorian minor tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants, 24-measure song, II/V7 in all keys, and Jamey Aebersold playing exercises from the book (hear the master clinician demonstrate exactly how it's done).

Beginning/Intermediate level.

Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d).

The second CD of slower tempos included in this Book & 2 CD set is available separately for those wishing to upgrade their old single-CD set they may have previously purchased.

Includes: Scales/Chords * Developing Creativity * Improv Fundamentals * 12 Blues Scales * Bebop Scales * Pentatonic Scales * Time and Feel * Melodic Development * II/V7s * Related Scales and Modes * Practical Exercises * Patterns and Licks * Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices * Nomenclature * Chromaticism * Scale Syllabus * and more! NOTE FROM JAMEY: When I first heard "So What" on the Kind of Blue record, I didn't think anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by and this seemed so tame by comparison.

I quickly fell in love with Kind of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn't see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase.

When I began teaching privately for the first time in Seymour, Indiana I had a girl flute student who really had a great sound.

One day I asked her to improvise on a D- Dorian scale and off she went.

I could tell she was playing what she heard in her mind and I was so surprised.

It really sounded natural.

So, I asked other students to.

First published
2019
Publishers
Aebersold Jazz· Jamey
Subjects
Music·Music
Language
English

This is essential for the budding jazz musician. Learn how to improvise as early as you can.

ARRIVED QUICKLY. iT WAS AGIFT MUCH APPRECIATED.

This book is one of many Jamey Aebersold book that I bought. But this book helped me to make corrections in my improvising.

Jamey Aebersold

About Jamey Aebersold

Jamey Aebersold (born July 21, 1939 in New Albany, Indiana) is an American jazz saxophonist and music educator. His "Play-A-Long" series of instructional book and CD collections, using the chord-scale system, the first of which was released in 1967, are an internationally renowned resource for jazz education. As of 2009, 126 of these collections have been published by Aebersold, who taught musical improvisation at the University of Louisville for a number of years. He is also an adept pianist, bassist, and banjoist....

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