Jazz Guitar * Learn To Improvise with CD

by Ed O'Brien

Jazz Guitar • Learn to Improvise with CD published by Santorella Publications is a melodic approach to improvisation written by a respected Boston based author & educator, Ed O’Brien. Learn to Improvise is the first in a series of jazz guitar books designed to familiarize students with fundamental techniques and concepts of jazz improvisation. The process of learning jazz improvisation is a vast area requiring much study and practice. Many books have been written on this expansive topic, but typically cater to a specific era or style; i.e., Swing, Bebop, etc. Jazz Guitar • Learn to Improvise takes a broadminded approach, and provides the student with concepts and examples that can be applied to jazz of any era. The performance CD contains every example, played at a moderate tempo, which allows students to not only read the exercise, but hear it as well. Scales, arpeggios, chord voicings, II/V7 progressions and chromatic voice leading are just a few topics covered. “This is truly a comprehensive approach to melodic improvisation. A must-buy product from Santorella Publications.” Section 1 - Scale Sequences • Relative Keys • Exercises 1-2 • Combining Sequences • Section 2 - Intervallic Sequences • Exercises 3-5 • A Study in 6ths • Chord Voicings • Section 3 - Harmonized Scales • Arpeggio Sequences • A Study in Sequences • Section 4 - II V7 Progression • Examples 1-10 • Minor Key II V7 • Examples 1-8 • Section 5 - Chromatic Approach • Chromatic Etude • Exercises 7-10 • Conclusion • Appendix - Harmonized Major • Minor • Harmonic Minor • Circle of Fifths • 1-58560-070-9,649571002961

48 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2004