CP20.2
Integrate the understanding of jazz theory into personal musical performance.
Indicators for this outcome
(a)

Prepare, rehearse, and perform music in a jazz style in solo, small group, or large ensemble settings.

(b)

Analyze different elements of music such as articulation, rhythm, beat, metre, time placement, and tone that help create a jazz style, and apply this knowledge while music making.

(c)

Recognize and define musical forms emphasizing AABA (32-bar song form) in music that is listened to and/or performed.

(d)

Design (with help from the teacher), implement, and evaluate a personal plan to improve the individual performance process, and to enhance knowledge and understanding of jazz (e.g., as part of the process of improvement, include recording and listening back to the performances, practices, and/or rehearsals).

(e)

Explore conventions regarding jazz articulation, and use those conventions in performance.

(f)

Know, describe, and use proficiently in performance the standard notation conventions such as note durations up to 16th notes, Codas, D.S.s, and dynamic markings.

(g)

Recognize and describe standards of notation in jazz music that are different from traditional "classical" notation (e.g., falls, doits, turns, and hats, as well as notation conventions such as how off-beat quarter notes should be written).

(h)

Use jazz vocabulary to relate jazz theory to personal musical learning (see Jazz Glossary).

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R070129
Beginning Jazz Guitar
Beginning Jazz Guitar is the first book in a series of four books describing a step-by-step method for learning to play jazz guitar. This book includes the major scale and basic triad theory, extended chords and the modes, and a full length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced. The book is clearly organized into easily mastered segments and each chapter is divided into separate lessons. The "A" lessons cover harmonic and chordal topics and the "B" lessons cover improvisation. General information, tips on practicing are at the end (coda) of the book and the music is written in standard notation and TAB.
The accompanying CD demonstrates the examples in the book.
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Media and Formats : Book CD/DVD
Price : $29.50
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R054446
The Jazz Piano Book
The Jazz Piano Book is a comprehensive and concise resource that summarizes musical theory and includes jazz harmony. The book covers a range of topics including 3 note voicings, scales and modes, improvisation, chords and comping. Jazz standards are cited and annotated examples are included. Many piano styles, such as stride, Bud Powell voicings, block chords and more are covered.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $35.99
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054445
Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
This book was first published in 1947 and musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have acknowledged this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $33.59
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054341
Voicings for Jazz Keyboard: A Comprehensive Approach to Contemporary Keyboard Voicings for the Performer, Arranger, Teacher, Jazz Theorist
This how-to book covers how to move between adjacent harmonies with minimal motion using good sounding state of the art voicings. This well-organized handling of common harmonic situations found in contemporary jazz provides an in-depth examination of what makes good piano players sound great. There are 15 short chapters that cover a range of materials for the jazz keyboardist. A glossary, suggested listening and a semester's syllabus for a jazz keyboard lab are included.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $19.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R070134
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
This DVD from the Louisiana Masters series includes a concert and an interview with the guitarist and violinist, Clarence Gatemouth Brown. It begins with the concert opening section and is followed by the interviews. During the concert Gatemouth and his band play an older style of jazz.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : $22.39
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R052746
Elements of the Jazz Language for the Developing Improvisor
Together with visuals and audio examples, this professional resource describes common licks and shows how they were used by different well-known soloists and how the licks can be inserted into some common chord progressions. The accompanying CD includes solo excerpts that accompany sections of the text and 30 exercises for practising the techniques.
Media and Formats : Book CD/DVD
Price : $37.50
Record posted/updated: December 7, 2018
R052745
The Jazz Language
A jazz musician must have an understanding of the construction of chords and scales and a ready knowledge of their applications as resources for musical expression. This book includes materials commonly used by a jazz musician and is presented in order of complexity and need. The book is not intended to be an arranging or an improvisation text, but a pedagogical reference. Each chapter concludes with study questions and exercises for the specific concept. The appendices offer additional tools.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $23.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054367
How to Practice Jazz
This little book offers many useful ideas for how to practice and what to practice while developing critical skills required to practice music successfully. The focus is to help students of jazz improvisation organize their time and practice habits.
The chapters provide an outline of helpful accessories for practicing jazz such as a metronome. Included are titles of books and materials to use, tips on the nature and content of practice and structuring practice. The content is interspersed with personal commentary and experiences and itemized lists of content. The appendices include a handy reference guide to a complete listing of play-along tunes, a guide to play-along exercises and a list of play-along tunes with useful applications.
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Media and Formats : Book
Price : $8.79
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R054508
Chop-Monster 2 Jazz Language Tutor. Teacher's Score with Compact Disc
This book is a continuation of Chop-Monster 1 and covers V7-I cadence, bebop scales, iim7-V7 progression, thirds and sevenths. It can be used for teaching improvisation in a large band setting and is designed for use in 10- to 15-minute sections. New concepts are presented with the help of a "call and response" CD.
Media and Formats : Book CD/DVD
Price : $53.50
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R070149
Jazz Band Rhythm Guitar
This easy-to-read resource from the Mel Bay Presents series provides an introduction to simplifying and explaining the basics of functioning in a big band. The book includes vocabulary, chords, dynamic markings and charts required to understand what written music is asking. It includes accents and articulations, notes and rhythmic notation and explains the physical setup and how to play the four basic styles of jazz.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $11.19
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R102479
Jazz Theory to Accompany Instrumental Jazz 10, 20, 30
In this booklet, the goal is to help students learn the language of jazz. Every effort has been made to ensure that the language used here is the common language of jazz musicians. In order to converse intelligently about their music, students need to understand and to use theoretical terms correctly. Finally, effort has been made to try to describe aspects of jazz theory in more than one way, as not everyone always has the same learning style or understands things the same way.
Media and Formats : Document
Price : Free
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Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054565
Expansions. A Method for Developing New Material for Improvisation(2nd ed.)
Campbell provides a thorough approach to practicing patterns. He uses scales that are not addressed in other books.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $11.99
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054444
Encyclopedia of Reading Rhythms
This book is a comprehensive guide to notes, rests, counting, subdividing, time signatures, triplets, ties, dotted notes and rests, cut time, compound time, rhythm studies, counting systems, road maps and more. It can be used to work on individual or group rhythmic reading skills and can be applied to all instruments.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $26.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054507
Chop-Monster 1 Jazz Language Tutor. Teacher's Score with Compact Disc
This book covers major and minor chords and scales, dominant seventh blues progressions and chromatic notes. It can be used for teaching improvisation in a large band setting and is designed for use in 10 to 15 minute sections. New concepts are presented with the help of a "call and response" CD.
Media and Formats : Book CD/DVD
Price : $39.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054504
The Art of Bop Drumming
Designed for the non-drumming jazz teacher, this resource describes jazz drumming and includes information on time playing, comping, soloing, brushes, playing in "2" and uptempo playing. Charts to assist in practising, appendices of recommended listings, a general discography and a list of books and videos are also included. The book is accompanied by a CD with specific tracks to enhance instructional parts throughout the book.
Media and Formats : Book CD/DVD
Price : $34.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018