Beginning Jazz Improvisation

by M. Daniel Yoder

Book Overview

This guide uses the pentatonic scale as the basis for developing the thought processes involved in improvisation, providing a system of improvising that is both easy to teach and learn. Consisting of four units, the text teaches the pentatonics and blue pentatonics; shows the application of these scales to the various chord types; explores how the pentatonics apply to chord changes containing several different chord type; and examines more advanced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133600661
• ISBN13: 9780133600667
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 173 Pages