Jazz Pentatonics Advanced Improvising Concepts

Jazz Pentatonics is for intermediate to advanced players wishing to expand their melodic and harmonic vocabulary. The music is in standard notation as well as tablature and audio is included in which the more difficult exercises are played at a slower as well as faster tempo. The audio was recorded with live drums, acoustic bass and guitar. All the exercises are included on the audio recording as well as play-along tracks that enable the student to play with a rhythm section. The book covers the minor 7, dominant 7, minor 7(b5) and major (b6) pentatonics and gives the student many etudes and exercises from which to draw improvisational ideas. Includes access to online audio.

CONTENTS

• Chapter one: minor seventh pentatonic scale
• Five perpendicular fingering exercises
• Lateral fingerings
• Harmonic uses of minor seventh pentatonic
• Exercises, Study No. 1
• Melodic voice leading introduction
• Study No. 2
• Practice starting notes
• Chapter two: minor seventh flat five pentatonic scale
• Harmonic uses of minor seventh flat five pentatonic
• Five perpendicular fingerings
• Minor ii-V-I patterns
• Study No. 3
• Ex. 15, delayed application of pentatonic
• Ex. 16 Phyrgian chord use
• Chapter three: dominant seventh pentatonic scale
• Harmonic uses of dominant seventh pentatonic
• Combination lateral/perpendicular fingerings
• Ex. 18 & 19/major ii-V-I sequences
• Study No. 4/F major blues
• Study No. 5/C minor blues
• Study No. 6/Solarize changes study
• Chapter four: major flat sixth pentatonic scale scale
• Harmonic uses of major flat sixth pentatonic
• Ex. 20 & 21/ii-V-I sequence using skips
• Study No. 7/Love changes with skips
• Appendix: practice tracks & answer key
• Practice track No. 1 Leaves key of G, minor seventh suggestions
• Practice track No. 2 Leaves key of Bb, minor seventh suggestions
• Practice track No. 3 Love changes, mixed pentatonic suggestions
• Practice track No. 4 Solarize changes, mixed pentatonic suggestions
• Practice track No. 5 F blues key of Bb, mixed pentatonic suggestions
• Pracitce track No. 6 Yesterdaze, mixed pentatonic suggestions
• Answer key for page 18
• Answer key for page 19