| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: book on scale theory | |
| mcjazz! -- 03/12/2005, 13:26:27 -- #11881 | |
| Can I get pointed in the direction of a good scale theory book. I'm getting info here and there in various books on what scales to play over progressions and I know opinions can differ etc.I'm looking for a structured book that goes from the very basics and is concise and easily understood. | |
| Scot -- 03/13/2005, 11:54:16 -- #11894 | |
| Funny you mention that. I'm currently reviewing some books by Roberta Picket out of NY. There are seven books in the series which is called Jazz Piano Vocabulary. Each book is called something like Major Scales, Minor Scales, Mixolydian Mode, Locrian mode, etc. I find the books to be very dry and unfortunately uninteresting so I'm having a really hard time getting through them. HOWEVER: they contain great information and it sounds like they would be just the thing for you because they cover everything in the scale arena that a disciplined beginner needs. | |
| mcjazz! -- 03/14/2005, 13:21:52 -- #11922 | |
| Thanks Scot w p. I will look into it, even if they are dry and uninteresting as you say! There's so much to learn!! | |
| Jazz+ -- 03/22/2005, 02:57:03 -- #12120 | |
| "lutonomy" gave a good explanation of the Kenny Barron walking bass method: by "lutonomy" -- 03/07/2005, 00:01:00 -- #11720 "A former teacher studied several years with Kenny Barron and I remember him showing me a long time ago how Kenny taught him to walk with his LH. It's suprisingly simple, but takes a while to master completely. Basically, he said for changes that last 1 bar, practice the pattern of R-5-R-LT, with LT being a leading tone to the next change (and the two roots on beats 1 and 3 being different octaves). If the change lasts two bars, practice R-5-R-5-9-b9-R-LT, again with the first two roots changing octaves. For 2 beat changes (half bar) just do R-5 or R-LT. That will take you pretty damn far. If you can get that on autopilot, enhancing the bass lines with walk-ups and other little hickity-bird triplet tricks is all downhill from there. Good luck! " I'm wondering what Kenny Barron's bass method is for a chord that last 4 measures, such as in "I'll Remember April" or the first four measures of a "Freddy The Freeloader" Would it be R-5-R-5-9-b9-R-LT repeated? "I'll Remember April" | G | G | G | G | | G- | G- | G- | G- | "Freddy The Freeloader" | Bb | Bb | Bb | Bb | | |
| Jazz+ -- 03/22/2005, 02:59:25 -- #12121 | |
| How did my post simultaneously appear in this older thread? | |
| Jazz+ -- 03/22/2005, 03:00:22 -- #12122 | |
| Anyways, I would recommend "The Jazz Theory Book" by Mark Levine for scale/chord associations. | |
| Jazz+ -- 03/22/2005, 03:02:00 -- #12123 | |
| Again, my post are simultaneously appear in several threads... | |
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