Allen, Dave - Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation
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Allen, Dave - Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation

Catalogue No: MB30923M
ArrangementAll Instruments
ComposerDave Allen
Product FormatSheet Music/Online Audio
£22.99
Typically dispatched in 2-3 working days
LanguageEnglish
Pages96
Publication Date2022
Grade of DifficultyINTERMEDIATE-ADV
ISBN9781513468600 (151346860X)

Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 52 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions. Includes access to online audio.

Contents

  1. Triplets: Patterns and Groupings [Dave Allen]
  2. Example 1: Eighth-note triplets grouped in twos [Dave Allen]
  3. Example 2: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours [Dave Allen]
  4. Example 3: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours [Dave Allen]
  5. Example 4: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fours using two arpeggios [Dave Allen]
  6. Example 5: Quarter-note triplets grouped in twos [Dave Allen]
  7. Example 6: Quarter-note triplets grouped in fours [Dave Allen]
  8. Example 7: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fives [Dave Allen]
  9. Example 8: Eighth-note triplets grouped in fives [Dave Allen]
  10. Example 9: Triplet patterns [Dave Allen]
  11. Example 10: Triplet patterns [Dave Allen]
  12. Example 11: Triplet pattern as bass line (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  13. Example 12: Triplets - rhythmic counterpoint [Dave Allen]
  14. Example 13: Triplet groove with chords (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  15. Example 14: “African Song” upper lines [Dave Allen]
  16. ...
  17. Example 15: “African Song” lower lines [Dave Allen]
  18. Example 16: “African Song” four-part score [Dave Allen]
  19. Example 17: Triplet groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  20. Example 18: Triplet groove [Dave Allen]
  21. Example 19: Rhythmic counterpoint (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  22. Applying Rhythmic Patterns to Standard Forms in 4/4 [Dave Allen]
  23. Example 21: “Dotted-Half Blues” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  24. Example 22: “Just One Thing” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  25. Example 23: “Dotted-Quarter Blues” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  26. Example 24: “No or Yes” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  27. Example 25: “No or Yes” full form with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  28. Example 26: “G S ” in 3/4 with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  29. Using Groupings and Rhythmic Layering in 4/4 [Dave Allen]
  30. Example 27: “Pulsion” bass line and drums only (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  31. Example 28: “Pulsion” A section with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  32. ...
  33. Example 29: “Pulsion” B section with bass and drums only (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  34. Example 29A: “Pulsion” B section with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  35. Example 30: “Thread” [Dave Allen]
  36. Odd Meters [Dave Allen]
  37. Example 31: 5/4 Groove with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  38. Example 33: 5/4 Comping rhythms [Dave Allen]
  39. Example 34: 5/4 Comping rhythms [Dave Allen]
  40. Example 35: Two-chord 5/4 groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  41. Example 36: 5/4 Counterrhythms [Dave Allen]
  42. Example 38: Clave and retrograde clave with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  43. Example 39: Comping rhythms with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  44. Example 40: Comping patterns with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  45. Example 41: Dotted-quarter pattern with rhythm sections [Dave Allen]
  46. Example 42: Three layers in 5/4 [Dave Allen]
  47. Example 43: “5/4 Blues” with bass and drums only (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  48. ...
  49. Example 44: “5/4 Blues” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  50. Example 45: Four variations with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  51. Example 46: 5/4 Chord progression (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  52. Example 46A: 5/4 Chord progression - retrograde clave (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  53. Example 47: “Available Light” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  54. Sevens [Dave Allen]
  55. Example 48: “Samba 7” with bass and drums (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  56. Example 48A: “Samba 7” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  57. Example 49: Group 1 comping rhythms with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  58. Example 49A: Group 2 comping rhythms with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  59. Example 49B: Group 3 comping rhythms with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  60. Example 49C: Group 4 comping rhythms with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  61. Example 49D: Group 5 comping rhythms with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  62. Example 50: “Samba 7” up-tempo with bass and drums only [Dave Allen]
  63. Example 50A: “Samba 7” up-tempo with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  64. ...
  65. Example 51: Dotted-quarter pattern in 7/4 [Dave Allen]
  66. Example 52: Pattern grouped in fives [Dave Allen]
  67. Example 53: 7/4 Clave variation [Dave Allen]
  68. Example 54: 7/4 Retrograde clave [Dave Allen]
  69. Example 55: Two-measure 7/4 groove [Dave Allen]
  70. Example 56: “Blues in 7/4” with bass and drums [Dave Allen]
  71. Example 56A: “Blues in 7/4” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  72. Example 57: 7/4 Groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  73. Example 58: Slow swing feel in 7/4 with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  74. Example 60: Bass line without downbeat [Dave Allen]
  75. Example 61: 7/4 Groove with bypassed downbeat [Dave Allen]
  76. Example 62: 7/4 Groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  77. Example 63: Funk groove in 7/4 (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  78. Nines [Dave Allen]
  79. Example 65: 9/8 Modal vamp with two rhythms [Dave Allen]
  80. ...
  81. ...
  82. Example 66: 9/8 Balkan rhythm [Dave Allen]
  83. Example 68: Three-part invention in 9/4 [Dave Allen]
  84. Example 69: “Minor Blues” in 9/4 with bass and drums [Dave Allen]
  85. Example 70: “Minor Blues” in 9/4 with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  86. Example 71: Swing feel in 9/4 with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  87. Example 73: 9/4 Groove with symmetrical chord pattern [Dave Allen]
  88. Example 74: 9/4 Groove with chord changes and rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  89. Example 75: 10/4 Groove with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  90. Example 76: 10/4 Groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  91. Elevens [Dave Allen]
  92. Example 77: 11/8 Rhythm with 3 variations [Dave Allen]
  93. Example 78: 11/8 Rhythm with two layers [Dave Allen]
  94. Example 79: 11/8 Groove [Dave Allen]
  95. Example 80: 11/4 Modal groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  96. Example 81: Same rhythm as Example 80 with chord changes and rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  97. ...
  98. Example 82: 11/4 Modal vamp (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  99. Example 83: 11/4 Swing feel with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  100. Example 84: Modal groove in 11/4 (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  101. Example 85: Groove in 11/4 with chord changes and rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  102. Example 87: 13/8 variation [Dave Allen]
  103. Example 88: Groove in 13/4 with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  104. Example 89: 13/4 with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  105. Fifteens and Seventeens [Dave Allen]
  106. Example 90: 15/4 Modal vamp 4/4/7 (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  107. Example 90A: 15/4 Vamp (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  108. Example 90B: Bass line in 15/4 (Backing Track [Dave Allen]
  109. Example 91: 15/8 Groove (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  110. Example 92: Bass line in 15/4 (Backing Track) [Dave Allen]
  111. Example 93: Same pattern with chord changes [Dave Allen]
  112. Example 94: 15/4 Swing-feel with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  113. ...
  114. Example 96: 17/8 Groove with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  115. Mixed Meters [Dave Allen]
  116. Example 97: “Uneasy” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  117. Example 98: 3/3/4 Pattern with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  118. Example 99: “3/3/4/4” Pattern (Backing Track [Dave Allen]
  119. Example 100: Mixed meter swing feel with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  120. Example 101: “5/5/2” Pattern [Dave Allen]
  121. Example 102: “5/5/3/3” Pattern (Backing Track [Dave Allen]
  122. Example 103: “5/5/5/4” Pattern with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  123. Example 104: 7/4 and 5/4 Pattern [Dave Allen]
  124. Example 105: “Slipping Glimpser” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  125. Example 106: “Real and Imagined” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  126. Example 107: “Thread” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  127. Example 108: “654” with rhythm section [Dave Allen]
  128. Example 109: “Real and Imagined” 3/4 vamp plus 1 1/4 bass line [Dave Allen]
  129. ...
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