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All fourths tuning refers to tuning one's guitar such that the intervals between the stings ascend in fourths. Why should you tune to fourths?
• Chord, arpeggio and scale shapes are uniform
• It's ergonomic
• One has control over jazzy voicings
• One has control over intervals
• It's easy to make quartal chords
This book includes:
• Over 100 fingering diagrams
• 14 sheets of song transcriptions
• Copious explanations of jazz theory
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A quick overlook on progressive guitar chords and jazz to get the player started. Just browsing the book will enlighten you. The book will discuss the 5 basic 7th chords that are a must to know for jazz and progressive guitar. It also discusses the arpeggios for each chord. The book will also give you the chords to a given key (a must) and two types of cycle of 5ths which are found in most jazz standards (another must). This book gets right to the...
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Este primer número, ha sido escrito por el mexicano Roberto Aymes, quien posee una de las más grandes trayectorias jazzísticas. Quien obtenga este libro podrá escuchar a Aymes recordando muchas de las anécdotas que ha vivido en los ya más de treinta y cinco años de vida profesional, durante los que ha convivido con los mejores solistas de nuestro medio musical y en incontables ocasiones ha tenido la fortuna de representar a México nacional...
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Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, and Jack DeJohnette-these are just a few of the jazz musicians whose conversations with Ben Sidran are recorded in this volume. In stimulating, personal, and informative discussions, they not only reveal their personalities, but also detail...
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This book introduces the reader to the wisdom of Art Blakey's teaching through his quotes and reaching into the deepest grotto of the meaning of each one of them.
I see the need for this book at every gig, whether I play or sit at a club and listen. Every concert, rehearsal, every time I deal with musicians, hear them talk, make announcements, conduct themselves on stage etc. Professional ones, not only students. Brilliant players, but, almost always,...
6) Jazz
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The story of the development of jazz and the extraordinary jazz legends who changed the face of music.
Do you have a hard time differentiating between hard bop, bebop, and the blues? Need to Know?
Jazz puts jazz in its musical and historical context, and gets you started with stories of famous artists and the best recordings to listen to.
From the beginnings of jazz to the years of swing and satchmo, Bob Blumenthal introduces jazz legends such as...
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Be Inspired, Stay Focused: Creativity, Learning, and the Business of Music is an engaging and inspiring collection of personal essays written by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome. This book is a must-read for those wanting real insight into how a creative musician thinks about his or her craft and an honest and nuanced perspective of the music business.
There's a little something in here for everybody:
The aspiring musician,
The seasoned musician,
The...
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Sex and the Jazz Musician - The Hollywood Years and Beyond is an intriguing glimpse into the life and times of "the world's greatest unemployed jazz clarinetist," the 80-year old Mort Weiss. Inspired by Mort's column on the popular website All About Jazz, The Mort Report, Sex and the Jazz Musician features 22 candid, poignant and ribald articles (of the 23 that are featured on the site), which are interspersed with brief pieces that provide context...
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Life Lessons from the Horn is collection of compelling essays revealing saxophonist Sam Newsome's unique insights as an artist, educator, and jazz musician of the 21st Century. If you are young musician serious about jazz, or if you're a seasoned professional looking for inspiration thoughts, this book has a little bit for everybody.
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En 2001, como consecuencia de la enfermedad y muerte del famoso pianista Carlos de la Torre, salen de la penumbra numerosos músicos de muy alta calidad en conciertos y homenajes. Sorprendida de que tanto talento permanezca oculto, la clarinetista y saxofonista francesa Nathalie Braux se promete contar la historia de estos grandes jazzistas. Un reto mayúsculo: sumergirse en las casi inexploradas aguas del jazz en Jalisco de los setenta y ochenta...
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Este libro es el cuarto volumen publicado de una historia de la música de jazz, desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad, que tiene como objetivo fundamental proporcionar una visión completa de las diversas etapas, corrientes estilísticas e intérpretes que conforman el devenir de un género musical que se ha desarrollado y que ha evolucionado desde comienzos del siglo XX.
Las tres primeras entregas -Historia de la música de jazz (I), 2009, Historia...
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Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis, and Jack DeJohnette-these are just a few of the jazz musicians whose conversations with Ben Sidran are recorded in this volume. In stimulating, personal, and informative discussions, they not only reveal their personalities, but also detail...
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The Tao of Jazz Improvisation is designed to simultaneously train the ear, mind, and body; and to increase the symbiotic relationship of the three. Train the ear to guide the player more efficiently and quickly. Train the mind to process musical stimuli/information at a faster rate. Train the body to react and execute the desired information coming from the ears and mind at maximum efficiency. This method deals with training the musician on the performance...
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Culled from the DownBeat archives includes in-depth interviews with literally every great jazz artist and personality that ever lived! In honor of its 75th anniversary, DownBeat 's editors have brought together in this one volume the best interviews, insights, and photographs from the illustrious history of the world's top jazz magazine, DownBeat . This anthology includes the greatest of DownBeat 's Jazz Hall of Famers: from early legends like Jelly...
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This book is a culmination of the music that I have written over the past 36 years. This is not all of the music I've written but the ones I felt represented major turning points in my writing. I grew up with a piano in the house. No one was really musically inclined and there's no recollection of anyone seriously playing it. There are vague memories of my mother playing "Clementine" while I sang along, but I can't confirm that. So the piano was dusted...
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Descubra el mundo del jazz de la mano del músico y divulgador Ricard Gili
La música de jazz es el obsequio más valioso que la comunidad afroamericana ha hecho al mundo. La música que este pueblo ha creado y desarrollado encierra unas características musicales y unos valores culturales que han enriquecido y revolucionado el universo musical de nuestro tiempo. Sin embargo, parece que, con el paso del tiempo, estas aportaciones tan originales...
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Pepper Adams is more than a definitive biography of Park "Pepper" Adams (1930—1986). The culmination of thirty-seven years of research, it's a fascinating account of Adams's life and times, thanks to colorful vignettes drawn from the author's 250 unpublished conversations with Adams and other esteemed musicians. These candid observations about Adams and his colleagues reveal previously confidential aspects of Adams's complex personality, his many...
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Solamente por el tema que trata, este sería un libro original y necesario, pero se vuelve todavía más interesante por la manera en que lo hace, relacionando el nacimiento, apogeo y decadencia en el país de conjuntos bailables autodenominados "de Jazz" con el tango, la música favorita en los mismos años, aportando abundante información, análisis críticos, recuerdos personales y descripción de los contextos sociales a los que aquellas agrupaciones...
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