Jazz Fiddle Wizard
A Practical Guide to Jazz Improvising for Strings
by Martin Norgaard
Product Number: 98379BCD
ISBN: 078664799X
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Format: Book/CD Set
Jazz Fiddle Wizard is a book/CD set tailored for string players who want to learn to improvise in the jazz tradition. The book contains practical theory lessons, presenting rhythms and scales that are immediately put to use. Concepts are introduced progressively, requiring comprehension of previously introduced techniques and terminology. Each lesson includes a theory section and an exercise or performance section. The companion CD provides a full rhythm section accompaniment for each exercise and tune. It is assumed that the reader/player has a basic technical command of the instrument and reads standard music notation at an elementary level or higher. Jazz Fiddle Wizard works in conjunction with the www.jazzfiddlewizard.com website, offering a unique interactive experience in which the reader is invited to pose questions directly to the author. This method has been field-tested on college students and other players at different level of technical proficiency and various backgrounds. Bottom line - IT WORKS!
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Tune 1 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?
Lesson 1: Rhythm
Lesson 2: The Dominant Bebop Scale
Lesson 3: The Bebop Scale with Stops
Lesson 4: Transposing the Bebop Scale
Lesson 5: The Bebop Scale in D, G, C, and F
Tune 2 - My House
Lesson 6: Tune Analysis
Lesson 7: Using the Bebop Scale
Lesson 8: Rhythm, Part 2
Tune 3 - Rose Room
Lesson 9: Review and Rose Room
Lesson 10: The Bebop Scale in B , E, A, and D
Lesson 11: Inner Melodies
Lesson 12: 2m-5-1 Arpeggios
Lesson 13: Arpeggio Shapes
Lesson 14: 2m-5-1 Scale and Melodies
Tune 4 - Good Lady
Lesson 15: Chord Categories and Good Lady
Lesson 16: The Bebop Scale in G, B, E, and A
Lesson 17: The Circle of Fifths
Lesson 18: The 2m-5-1 in All Keys
Tune 5 - Tune Down
Lesson 19: Phrasing and Tune Down
Lesson 20: Altering the 5, Part 1
Lesson 21: Altering the 5, Part 2
Lesson 22: The Minor 2ø-5-1m
Lesson 23: The Minor 2ø-5-1m in All Keys
Tune 6 - You Can't Appear Again
Lesson 24: Passing Chords and You Can't Appear Again
Tune 7 - Indiana (Back Home Again In)
Lesson 25: Playing Fast and Indiana (Back Home Again In)
Bibliography
Discography
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