Instrumental Jazz 30
CP30.3
Show growth in individual instrumental techniques and knowledge of the elements of music and apply these to create or show a musical product.
Indicators for this outcome
| (a) |
Demonstrate and record technical development and develop strategies to improve. |
| (b) |
Generate technical inquiry questions and take action on the findings of the inquiry (e.g., "What can I do to get better?" or "How could I change this performance, paper, or arrangement?"). |
| (c) |
Play with a tone appropriate to the style and personal development. |
| (d) |
Having internalized the key concepts of playing expressively, demonstrate this knowledge through playing. |
| (e) |
Play a full range chromatic scale. |
| (f) |
Play major, dorian, mixolydian, and blues scales in all 12 keys, two octaves when possible.* |
| (g) |
Play both whole tone scales and all three diminished scales.* |
| (h) |
Sight-read music at one level below the general level of the music being performed by the ensemble. *For students playing drum set, teachers may substitute other technique directly related to set playing, although the drummers should know the scales on mallets and perform the set techniques in addition to the mallet technique. |
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
R070453
Jazz by Ken Burns Series
This is a series of programs that examines this history of jazz music. A website to accompany the series is available at http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz/home/
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A Masterpiece by Midnight (1960 to the Present)
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C-Jam Blues by Duke Ellington
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Dedicated to Chaos (1940-1945)
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Gumbo (Beginnings to 1917)
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I Cover the Waterfront by Louis Armstrong
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New Rhumba by Miles Davis
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Our Language (1924-1929)
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Risk (1945-1955)
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Swing. Pure Pleasure (1935-1937)
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Swing. The Velocity of Celebration (1937-1939)
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The Adventure (1956-1960)
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The First Frame
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The Gift (1917-1924)
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The True Welcome (1929-1934)
Media and Formats :
CD/DVD
Price :
$209.95 (complete series)
Record posted/updated:
December 7, 2018
R054342
Patterns for Jazz for Treble Clef Instruments
Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous creation of music in the jazz style. This book provides a collection of patterns that a student of jazz improvisation may practice. The patterns begin with rudimentary exercises such as scales, modes, simple chords and four basic types of chord movement. Following the exercises are usable patterns, as well as more complicated patterns, chords and scales. Finally, the book progresses to interval studies and free-form patterns. This resource is meant to be used while playing and theoretical information is inserted whenever possible to support the context that is presented. The exercises and patterns can be applied to any instrument.
Changes are intrinsic to jazz improvisation and this resource serves as an introduction to pattern-playing in jazz and as a springboard for the development of other, new patterns as they present themselves.
Changes are intrinsic to jazz improvisation and this resource serves as an introduction to pattern-playing in jazz and as a springboard for the development of other, new patterns as they present themselves.
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Media and Formats :
Book
Price :
$28.79
Record posted/updated:
July 8, 2024
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
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
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.
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
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
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