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Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation
Primary Text Book – Black Cover Kindle eBook
Treble Clef Exercise Book – Green Cover Kindle eBook
Bass Clef Exercise Book – Red Cover Kindle eBook
The Practical Jazz Theory for Improvisation series was originally written as a curriculum/text for the National Jazz Workshop. The intent was to provide an overview during the summer sessions while providing a more comprehensive text and exercise solution for student to pursue on their own. The series consists of three separate books – A primary theory text for all instruments, (black cover) and two companion exercise books – treble clef (green cover) and bass clef (red cover). While they are designed to be used in conjunction with each other, each is effective as a stand-alone enhancement to development. The exercise books are especially useful for technique development. These books are available in print version on Amazon.com and Lulu.com. A PDF version is also available on Lulu.com. Click cover art for Lulu.com purchasing options.
Click here for I-Real Pro accompaniment tracks for these books: Practical Jazz Theory Exercise Tracks
A Daily Dose of Scales for ImprovisationTreble Clef – Blue Cover Kindle eBook Bass Clef – Red Cover Kindle eBook A daily scale practice routine for development of jazz improvisational facility. For trumpet and all treble clef instruments. Exercises include: Major Scales, Modes of the Major Scale, Harmonic Minor Scale, Melodic Minor Scale Modes of Melodic Minor, Whole-Half Diminished, Half-Whole Diminished, the Whole Tone Scale, the Major Pentatonic, The Blues Scale and the Dominant Bebop Scale. These books are available in print version on Amazon.com and Lulu.com. A PDF version is also available on Lulu.com. Click cover art for Lulu.com purchasing options.
A Daily Dose of Minor Pentatonics for ImprovisationTreble Clef – Yellow Cover Kindle eBook Bass Clef – Green Cover Kindle eBook The use of pentatonics in improvisation is a long-standing tradition that runs the gamut of musical styles and genres. When played generically as eighth notes, the interval structure implies a chord outline but with enough step wise motion to maintain linear direction. When the scale is started on the downbeat, the minor third intervals create a natural off-beat accent that is inherent to a contemporary swing style. Pentatonics are easily permutated into attractive symmetrical and sequential melodic shapes that in many cases have become recognizable cliches. As a scale that doesn’t distinctly define a specific harmony, multiple harmonic situations can be negotiated with a single well understood pentatonic. The exercises in this text are intended to develop technique, fluency and awareness of melodic possibility with minor pentatonics in all keys. These books are available in print version on Amazon.com and Lulu.com. A PDF version is also available on Lulu.com. Click cover art for Lulu.com purchasing options. Click here for I-Real Pro accompaniment tracks for these books: Minor Pentatonic Practice Tracks 1
A 40 Minute Daily Dose of Maintenance and Development for TrumpetA 40 Minute Daily Dose of Maintenance and Development for trumpet is designed as an advanced daily routine that focuses on preserving and refining abilities attained through study of standard developmental literature. The value of this text lies primarily in the organization and adaptation of well-understood developmental approaches into a manageable daily maintenance routine. As written, it requires a significant level of development to fully accomplish. The ability to play it through as written likely implies a player who has already spent significant time with one or more of great development methods such as Claude Gordon, Stamp, Maggio, Caruso, Reinhardt, etc. That being said, by skipping portions that exceed a student’s ability, this book could be used as a developmental method and precursor to study using any one of the above-mentioned texts. This book is available in print version on Amazon.com and Lulu.com. A PDF version is also available on Lulu.com. Click cover art for Lulu.com purchasing options. Kindle eBook
A Daily Dose of Random Pitch Exercises for Trumpet/TromboneA Daily Dose of Random Pitch Exercises for Trumpet provides progressive supplemental exercises focused on the development of accuracy, pitch, attack and intervals across the range of the instrument from low F# below the staff to high G above the staff. Intended to complement an existing routine or method, the primary methods for approaching the exercises will require ten to twenty minutes per practice session. The progressive nature of the exercises, and the multiple approaches to them, make them appropriate and useful at all developmental levels. The trombone version is a transcription of the trumpet text, transposed for trombone. Both texts are available on Amazon in both print and eBook formats.
Free Stuff
Out Of The Blues Complete Trumpet Parts Click the link above for the complete trumpet parts from the CD “Out Of The Blues – The Jazz Trumpet Ensemble” Please see the Recordings page for more info on the CD.
Dues Etudes – 2018 Revision20 Harmonically progressive etudes playable with the first five tracks of the “Payin’ Dues” Aebersold recording. The tunes are contrafacts on “There Will Never Be Another You” (slow and fast versions), “Stella By Starlight”, “Body and Soul”, and “What Is This Thing Call Love”. This 2018 revision finds these etudes less academic while maintaining the focused harmonic progression through the four sections. I-Real Pro tracks are also available to allow for practicing at slower tempos. Currently for B-Flat instruments, though changing the key in the I-Real Pro app would make them playable as written by any treble clef instrument. Click here for I-Real Pro accompaniment tracks for these etudes: Dues Etudes
II-V-I Long TonesClick here for I-Real Pro accompaniment tracks for these exercises: Long Tones – IImin7 – V7b9 – Imaj9
More to come…
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