Edition: Paperback Book & Online Audio, Melody Instruments

Description: 80 Pages

Jazz Improvisation & Pentatonic by Adelhard Roidinger is a comprehensive guide to scales and related chords, offering practical advice on how they may be used in jazz improvisation. The accompanying online audio contains play-along tracks to the exercises as well as compositions of the author.

Contents:

The 4 Basic Scales in Jazz Improvisation
The 8 Basic Pentatonic Scales
The 4 Basic Scales in Jazz Improvisation
Their Modes and Scale Voicings
Pentatonic and Scale Relationships
Basic Exercises on Pentatonics
Advanced Exercises on Pentatonics
Exercises on Scales
Exercises on Hexatonics
Application of Pentatonic Scales to Chord Progressions
Application of Pentatonic Sacles to Modal Harmony
Pentatonics and Scales in Relationship to the Overtone Series
8 Altered Pentatonics
The 4 Basic Scales in Jazz Improvisation
Their Inside Pentatonics
The 4 Basic Scales in Jazz Improvisation
With Altered Seconds, Thirds, Fifths and Sixths
16 Pentatonic Scales and their Exact Inversions
Play-A-Long Compositions
About the Author