100 Modern Jazz Licks for Piano is so much more than a book of licks! It's a doorway into the minds of the most innovative jazz pianists ever recorded...
(Guitar Educational). This book presents 1,001 melodic gems played over dozens of the most important chord progressions heard in jazz. This is the ideal book for beginners seeking a well-organized, easy-to-follow encyclopedia of jazz vocabulary, as well as professionals who want to take their knowledge of the jazz language to new heights.
Learn Jazz Piano Soloing Skills With This Easy Step-by-Step Method Do you want to learn how to improvise jazz piano solos? Would you like to recreate the sounds of the jazz piano greats, but have no idea where to begin? Do you want a simple method to teach you how to solo confidently and even write your own licks? Beginner Jazz Piano Soloing is a simple, easy-to-follow guide, that teaches you the language of jazz in easy steps. This well-conceived method is so effective that even if you are a novice at jazz, by the end you'll be able to confidently improvise a solo. Like any language, jazz has its own vocabulary and expert tutor Nathan Hayward will teach you the right way to learn, memorise and apply it. You'll discover... - Major and Minor Pentatonic and Blues scales - How to blend scales to make new sounds - How to use simple ideas to create an authentic jazz sound - Expand your jazz vocabulary with dozens of licks - How to connect licks to form longer ideas - How to apply rhythmic ideas to get endless variations of the licks you know This book demystifies jazz improvisation as it works through each idea step by step. You'll never feel overwhelmed - instead you'll be encouraged by your rapid progress. By the end you'll have built a musical vocabulary that will help you to solo convincingly over simple jazz chord sequences.
The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.
(Jazz Transcriptions). The ultimate collection for jazz keyboardists to learn 40 Evans classics with exact note-for-note transcriptions. Includes: Alice in Wonderland * Autumn Leaves * Bill's Hit Tune * Blue in Green * Days of Wine and Roses * Emily * Everything Happens to Me * Five * For Nenette * How About You? * How My Heart Sings * I Loves You, Porgy * It Could Happen to You * Just You, Just Me * Letter to Evan * My Foolish Heart * My Funny Valentine * My Romance * Nardis * Night and Day * One for Helen * Peace Piece * Peri's Scope * Quiet Now * Re: Person I Knew * Skating in Central Park * A Sleepin' Bee * Some Other Time * Stella by Starlight * Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) * 34 Skidoo * Time Remembered * The Touch of Your Lips * Turn Out the Stars * Very Early * Waltz for Debby * What Kind of Fool Am I? * Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me) * You Go to My Head * You Must Believe in Spring * and more.
Remi Harris' 100 Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks If you're looking for the most direct pathway to learn incredible gypsy jazz guitar soloing - here it is! "Remi Harris is one of the very finest and most exciting exponents of gypsy jazz guitar ... now he is passing along his knowledge and experience to anyone who wants to play this wonderful music and discover just how incredibly cool it really is!" - Dr Martin Taylor MBE Get ready to master authentic gypsy jazz guitar soloing with over 100 guitar licks that perfectly recreate the feel of the classic sound. - Would you like to play effortless hot club style guitar solos? - Want to build a vocabulary of authentic gypsy jazz guitar licks that work perfectly, every single time? - Do you want to master the language of guitar Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène, and many more? Gypsy Jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or the hot club style) was one of the most ground-breaking and accessible forms of early jazz, and is still incredibly popular today through the "modern manouche" movement. However, it typically doesn't lend itself to the kind of music theory that most guitarists are used to playing. 100 Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks cuts right to the chase with an overview of how gypsy jazz guitarists think when they solo, then dives straight in to teach every concept via 100 iconic licks. You'll be sounding like an authentic gypsy jazz guitar player in no time at all.
The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
Covering a span of time and styles ranging from jazz beginnings to some of the most recent developments, this book collects and analyzes many of the most frequently used jazz, blues, and Latin jazz left-hand piano techniques. Generally, each proposed technique is first introduced by a "model" figure derived from original sources, followed by an explanation of its pattern, and finally by some sample applications using well-known songs, harmonic progressions, or original pieces. For the sake of completeness, most of these left-hand applications are integrated with sample right-hand parts that validate the efficacy and concrete application of the left hand figures. Numerous styles of jazz piano are taught, including: stride piano, Latin stylings, blues, boogie, swing, walking bass, jazz waltz, rootless voicings and many other concepts. Characteristics of jazz legends including Erroll Garner, Jelly Roll Morton, Earl Hines, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Eubie Blake and many others are explored. As with all books in this series, it includes a unique lay-flat binding to help keep the music open on the music stand.
The Complete Piano Technique book is a carefully structured method, developed over several years, to help you build perfect piano technique from the ground up. It covers every aspect of piano playing technique and you will learn essential scales and arpeggios at the same time!