Displaying 1 of 1 2015 Format: Book Author: Davis, Mark, 1969- author. Title: Hal Leonard jazz piano method : the player's guide to authentic stylings / by Mark Davis. Publisher, Date: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Corporation, [2015] ©2015 Description: 96 pages : illustrations, music ; 31 cm Subjects: Piano -- Methods (Jazz) -- Self-instruction. Piano -- Instruction and study. Piano -- Methods -- Self-instruction. Genre: Methods (Music) Other Title: Jazz piano method : the player's guide to authentic stylings Notes: "Audio access included"--Cover. "The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book!"--Back cover. "Glossary": pages 91-93. Staff notation. Contents: Getting started. Practice tips ; Developing your ear ; Recommended listening ; Styles ; Jazz standards ; The form of a tune ; The structure of a typical jazz performance ; The pianist's role in a jazz group -- Essential theory. The chromatic scale ; The whole tone scale ; The major scale ; Intervals ; The cycle ; Swing eighth notes -- Basic chords and voicings. Triads ; Four-note chords ; Shell voicings and concepts of voice leading ; Diatonic chords ; The iim7-V7-Imaj7 progression -- Repertoire. Learning tunes ; Interpreting a lead sheet ; Endings ; Applying voicings -- Beginning improvisation. The blues scale ; Feeling time ; The blues progression ; Improvising with chord tones ; The modes of the major scale ; The Mixolydian mode ; The Dorian mode ; Thinking about scales -- Dominant vocabulary. The dominant bebop scale ; Arpeggios ; Resolution to the third ; Application to the blues ; More dominant ideas ; More about accents ; Rhythmic variations ; Phrasing -- Major vocabulary. Major scale improvisation ; The major bebop scale ; Resolution to the third and fifth ; Arpeggios and other melodic ideas ; Rhythmic variations ; Improvising over common progressions ; Application to "Afternoon in Paris" -- More harmony. Upper extensions ; Altered dominant extensions ; Two-handed voicings ; Harmonizing tunes ; Rootless voicings ; Comping rhythms ; Comping behind a soloist ; Soloing with the chords -- More scales. The harmonic minor scale ; The Jewish or Spanish scale ; Minor II-V-I ; The Locrian mode ; The jazz melodic minor scale ; The altered scale ; The diminished scale ; Improvising with whole tone scales ; Putting it all together -- More repertoire. Variations of common chord progressions ; Jazz blues ; Rhythm changes ; "Autumn leaves." ISBN: 9781480398009 1480398004 Publisher Number: HL00131102 Other Number: 906010844 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 859352 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 786.2165 Davis Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
