{"product_id":"volume-1-how-to-play-jazz-improvise-with-2-free-audio-cds-book-jamey-aebersold-9781562241223","title":"Volume 1: How To Play Jazz \u0026 Improvise (with 2 Free Audio CDs)","description":"Do you want to learn how to improvise jazz? Then this is the play-along for you! Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. Now with Online Audio Recordings---some with slower practice tempos! The beginning tracks includes blues in B-flat and F, four Dorian minor tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants, 24-measure song, II\/V7 in all keys, and Jamey Aebersold playing exercises from the book (hear the master clinician demonstrate exactly how it's done). Beginning\/Intermediate level.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rhythm Section: Jamey Aebersold (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d). The tracks of slower tempos included in this Book \u0026amp; Online Audio set is available separately for those wishing to upgrade their old single-CD set they may have previously purchased.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Includes: Scales\/Chords * Developing Creativity * Improv Fundamentals * 12 Blues Scales * Bebop Scales * Pentatonic Scales * Time and Feel * Melodic Development * II\/V7s * Related Scales and Modes * Practical Exercises * Patterns and Licks * Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices * Nomenclature * Chromaticism * Scale Syllabus * and more!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e NOTE FROM JAMEY:\u003cbr\u003e When I first heard So What\" on the Kind of Blue record, I didn't think anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by and this seemed so tame by comparison. I quickly fell in love with Kind of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn't see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase. When I began teaching privately for the first time in Seymour, Indiana I had a girl flute student who really had a great sound. One day I asked her to improvise on a D- Dorian scale and off she went. I could tell she was playing what she heard in her mind and I was so surprised. It really sounded natural. So, I asked other students to play on a Dorian scale and they did fine. That's how I got started teaching improv. I think others at the time were using the blues as a vehicle but the students I was working with knew nothing about the blues but they could keep their place in the 4 and 8 bar phrases so I went ahead later and used that modal approach on my Volume 1 play-along . . . and the rest is history.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49918007148817,"sku":"CIN1562241222G","price":11.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007250010385,"sku":"CIN1562241222VG","price":13.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51256792219921,"sku":"NIN9781562241223","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53008659284241,"sku":"GOR010363825","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53012884783377,"sku":"GOR008241303","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1562241222.jpg?v=1750829510","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/volume-1-how-to-play-jazz-improvise-with-2-free-audio-cds-book-jamey-aebersold-9781562241223","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}