We are huge fans of the Jamey Aebersold method books, especially the Play-along CD series. We've spent many hours getting friendly with the classic jazz standards, the fabulous rhythm section audio accompaniments, and have been hugely influenced by the books on "Turnarounds," "ii V7 I," "Nothin' but Blues," and many more. There are terrific treasures there, and if you haven't spent any time over the decades worth of materials at JazzBooks.com, you should.

Get a good glimpse of some of these you can also take with you, download their free sample, the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Handbook (AKA the "Red Book"), a 56 page intense treasure summary of lesson samples, playing concepts, stylistic interpretations, scales, practice tips, blues progressions, and a host of other intriguing and valuable jazz concepts. It's a pretty big file, around 3 megabytes, but we almost guarantee it will be a tease for the many more gems you can get from the JazzBooks library. Resistance will be futile.

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GENERAL INFORMATION.........................................2
Valuable Jazz Information........................................3
SOLOING by Jamey Aebersold................................4
Jazz: The Natural Music............................................5
Suggested Listening-Jazz Artists...........................7
Historically Significant Recordings.........................8
Tips For Learning A New Tune.................................9
Practice Procedures For Memorizing Scales
and Chords To Any Song.....................................9
Practice Procedures-Musical Examples...............10
SONG LIST for Beginners.......................................11
SCALES....................................................................12
Introduction to the SCALE SYLLABUS.................13
SCALE SYLLABUS..................................................14
NOMENCLATURE....................................................15
The Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices..............16
Ten Basic Exercises-TREBLE CLEF.....................17
Ten Basic Exercises-BASS CLEF..........................18
TREBLE CLEF SCALES..........................................19
BASS CLEF SCALES...............................................20
Ear Training..............................................................21
Interval Chart...........................................................22
Basic Keyboard and the Chromatic Scale............23
The Circle of Cycle of Fourths...............................24
Scales/Modes Based on the Major Scale..............24
HOW TO PRACTICE by Jerry Coker......................25
HOW TO PRACTICE by David Liebman.................25
Things That Create Interest When Soloing...........26
Starting A Phrase or Melody...................................26
Jazz ARTICULATIONS.............................................27
Jazz RHYTHMS........................................................29
The BLUES SCALE and Its Use..............................30
F Blues & Bb Blues Progresions:
For TREBLE CLEF C Instruments.....................31
For Bb Instruments.............................................31
For Eb Instruments.............................................32
For BASS CLEF C Instruments..........................32
PLAYING THE BLUES.............................................33
What Does "To Hear" Really Mean?......................34
VARIATIONS ON BLUES.........................................35
Values-Plato Quote-Bill Evans Quote..................36
Bebop Characteristics by David Baker.......37
Short List of Bebop Players...................................38
BEBOP SCALES......................................................38
Transposition Chart.................................................39
Two Interesting Short Stories.................................39
Jamey's JAZZ THEORY ASSIGNMENTS...............41
II/V7/I Progression With Emphasis On The
7th Resolving To The 3rd...................................46
PIANO VOICINGS:
Blues Voicings.....................................................47
Major and Dominant 7th Voicings.....................48
II/V7/I Voicings.....................................................49
Jamey's POINTS TO REMEMBER..........................52

Posted by Ted at June 19, 2010 6:11 AM