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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One Basics
1 Music Fundamentals
Concepts and Terms
Pitch
Major Scales
Key Signatures
Minor Scales
Rhythm
Meter and Time Signatures
Notating Rhythm
Intervals
Inversion of Intervals
Triads
Inversion of Triads
Suspended Triad
2 Jazz Rhythm
Concepts and Terms
General Characteristics
Syncopation
Swing
Practicing Rhythm
Placement of Swing 8ths
Phrasing
Playing with a Metronome
3 Harmonic Function
Concepts and Terms
Functional Tonality
Triads in Major Keys
Triads in Minor Keys
Notational Conventions
Lead-Sheet Notation
Roman Numerals
Function Symbols
Functional Families
Major Key
Minor Key
Voice-Leading Principles
Basic Keyboard Applications
4 Four-Part Chords
Concepts and Terms
Characteristics of Jazz Harmony
Chord Categories
Major Category
Minor Category
Dominant 7th Category
Intermediary Category
Inversions of Four-Part Chords
Functional Families
Major Key
Minor Key
“Drop 2” Voicings
5 Five-Part Chords
Concepts and Terms
Chordal Extensions
Addition of Extensions
Chord Categories
Major Category
Minor Category
Dominant and Suspended Chords
Dominant 7th Category
Suspended Dominant Category
Intermediary Category
Positions of Chords
“Drop 2” Voicings
6 The II–V–I Progression
Concepts and Terms
A Brief History
The ii7−V7−Imaj7 Progression
The −V7−i7 Progression
Secondary Dominant 7th
The Diminished 7th Chord
Transformation of the Diminished 7th Chord
7 Modes
Concepts and Terms
Parent-Scale Derivation of Diatonic Modes
The Modes’ Characteristics
Diatonic Modes
Major Modes—Ionian
Major Modes—Lydian
Major Modes—Mixolydian
Minor Modes—Aeolian
Minor Modes—Dorian
Minor Modes—Phrygian
Minor Modes—Locrian
Parent-Scale Derivation of Chromatic Modes
Chromatic Modes
Minor Modes—Melodic Minor
Minor Modes—Dorian ♭2
Minor Modes—Locrian ♮2
Major Modes—Lydian Augmented
Major Modes—Mixolydian ♯11
Major Modes—Mixolydian ♭13
Major Modes—Altered
8 Chord—Scale Theory
Concepts and Terms
Objectives of Chord-Scale Theory
Chord-Scale Relationships
Major Category
Minor Category
Dominant Category
Suspended Dominant Category
Intermediary Category
The ii7−V7−Imaj7 Progression
The −V7−i7 Progression
9 The Blues
Concepts and Terms
Generic Blues
Telling a Story
Call and Response
The Blues Scale
Major Blues Scale
Basic Blues Progression
Keyboard Realization
Chord-Scale Relationships
Minor Blues
Chord-Scale Relationships
10 Improvisation
Concepts and Terms
Getting Started
Blues Riffs
The Role of Guide Tones
The Charleston Rhythm
Exploring Guide Tones
Using 3rds and 7ths
Using 3rds or 7ths
The 3rd and 7th lines
Motivic Development
Repetition
Transposition
Expansion and Interpolation
Contraction and Fragmentation
Inversion
Part Two Intermediate
11 Jazz Lead Sheets
Concepts and Terms
What Does a Lead Sheet Tell Us?
Two-Level Analysis
“My Romance”
“All the Things You Are”
12 Keyboard Textures
Concepts and Terms
Models of Keyboard-Style Playing
Model I
Model II
Model III
Model IV
Model V
Model VI
Model VII
13 Idiomatic Jazz Progressions
Concepts and Terms
Tritone Substitutions
The ii7−V7−Imaj7 Progression and Tritone Substitutions
Turnarounds
The Imaj7−vi7−ii7−V7 Progression
Harmonic Transformations
Tag Endings
The Cycle of Dominant 7ths Progression
The “Lady Bird” Progression
“Coltrane” Substitutions
Aural Identification of Four-Bar Progressions
The [ii7−V7]/X Interpolation
Four-Bar Modulations
The [−V7]/x Interpolation
Two ii7−V7 Interpolations
Miscellaneous Four-Bar Progressions
14 Voicings
Concepts and Terms
Upper-Structure Triads
Dominant Aggregate
Rootless Formations
Incomplete Voicings
15 Bebop
Concepts and Terms
Bebop Scales
Major Bebop Scale
Minor Bebop Scales
Dominant Bebop Scale
The Intermediary/Dominant Bebop Complex
Practicing Bebop Improvisation
Metric Placement—Scalar and Arpeggiation Patterns
Addition of Extra Chromatic Notes
Altered Bebop Scales
The Diminished 7th Chord
Triplets
The ii7−V7−Imaj7 Progression
Negotiating the Minor Seven Flat Five Chord
The −V7−i7 Progression
16 Octatonic Scales
Concepts and Terms
The 1/2 Octatonic Scale
Harmonic Potential
Melodic Potential
The 2/1 Octatonic Scale
17 Bebop Blues
Concepts and Terms
Three Harmonic Variants
Variant 1
Variant 2
Variant 3
Improvisation
18 “Confirmation”
Concepts and Terms
“Confirmation”—An Analysis
Form and Harmony
Melody and Rhythm
An Analysis of the Transcription
Chord−Scale Relationship: Modes
Chord−Scale Relationship: Bebop Scales
19 “Moose the Mooche”
Concepts and Terms
“I Got Rhythm” Contrafacts
“Moose the Mooche”—An Analysis
Form and Harmony
Melody and Rhythm
An Analysis of the Transcription
Harmonic Reworkings of Rhythm Changes
Rhythm Changes Improvisation
The A Section: A Single-Scale Approach
The A Section: A Two-Scale Approach
The A Section: Chord Arpeggiations
The B Section: A Single-Scale Approach
Part Three Advanced
20 Pentatonics and Hexatonics
Concepts and Terms
Methodology
Pentatonics
Basic Pentatonics
Diatonic Pentatonics
Chromatic Pentatonics
Altered Pentatonics
The Pentatonic System
Major Category
Minor Category
Dominant Category
Suspended Dominant Category
Intermediary Category
Harmonic Potential
Melodic Potential
Hexatonics
Major Category
Minor Category
Dominant Category
Suspended Dominant Category
Intermediary Category
Harmonic Potential
Melodic Potential
21 Phrase Models
Concepts and Terms
Phrase Prototypes
Jazz Rule of the Octave
Diatonic Phrase Models
Phrase Model 1
Phrase Model 2
Phrase Model 3
Phrase Model 4
Phrase Model 5
Chromatic Phrase Models
Phrase Model 6
Phrase Model 7
Phrase Model 8
Phrase Model 9
Phrase Model 10
Phrase Model 11
Phrase Model 12
Phrase Model 13
22 The AABA Song Form
Concepts and Terms
Formal Prototypes
The AABA On-Tonic Design
Classification of Standard Tunes
The AABA Off-Tonic Design
Classification of Standard Tunes
“Have You Met Miss Jones?”—An Analysis
The Verse
The Chorus
23 The ABAC Song Form
Concepts and Terms
The ABAC On-Tonic Design
Classification of Standard Tunes
The ABAC Off-Tonic Design
Classification of Standard Tunes
“All Of You”—An Analysis
The Verse
The Chorus
24 Extended and Unusual Song Forms
Concepts and Terms
Extended and Unusual Song Forms—A Compilation
“Dream Dancing”—An Analysis
The Verse
The Chorus
25 Jazz Reharmonization
Concepts and Terms
Introduction
Basic Reharmonization Techniques
Addition of Extensions
Harmonic Expansion of Structural Chords
Tonicization
Tritone Substitutions
Diminished 7th Chords
Upper-Structure Triads
Neighbor Formations
Pedal Points
Functional Exchange
Melodic Recontextualization
Interpolation of Auxiliary Progressions
Linear Approaches to Reharmonization
“All the Things You Are”
“Stella By Starlight”—A Reharmonization
26 “Line up”
Concepts and Terms
Introduction
Analytical Annotations
An Analysis of the Transcription
Rhythmic Displacement
Melodic Interpolation
Playing Outside
Structural Approach
Advanced Techniques
The “Tristano Style” of Improvisation
Rhythmic Syntax
Melodic Syntax
Harmonic Syntax
Voice Leading
Phrasing
Advanced Techniques
27 Post-Tonal Jazz
Concepts and Terms
Introduction
Basic Concepts
Integer Notation
Pitch and Pitch Classes
Intervals and Interval Classes
Trichords
Methodology for Figuring Out Normal and Prime Forms
“Clock Face” as a Visual Aid to Identify Sets
Families of Trichords
Harmonic Potential of Trichords
“Diatonic” PC-Set Complexes
Whole-Tone PC-Set Complexes
“Triadic” PC-Set Complexes
Semitone PC-Set Complexes
Modal Potential of Trichords
Transposition and Inversion of Sets
Aural Identification of Trichords
Appendix A Play Along DVD
Bibliography
Credits
Index
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