FOR ALL INSTRUMENTS.
Comprehensive Technique
for Jazz Musicians
by Bert LigonINTRODUCTION.
Technique vi
Book Format os vil
Improvisation. ~ vil
BASIC EXERCISES.
Routine
Tips for Practice
Practicing by Limiting,
Practice in all Twelve Keys.
Scales for Improvisation
Scale Practice.
Arpeggio & Broken Chord Practice
Other Melodic Scale & Arpeggio Patterns
Patterns with 31d8.nnm
Pattems with Neighbor Tones
Cyclical Quacruplets
Diatonie Chords
Diatonie Seventh Chords.
Chromatic: Embellishment
Diatonic Triads with Lower Neighbor Tone Embellishment
Neighbor Tones Applied to Arpeggios & Broken Chords.
Upper Neighbor Tones
Lower Neighbor Tones
Combining Upper & Lower Neighbor Tones on Arpeggio & Broken
Chord Bxercises, sa .
Encircling Chord Tones with Upper & Lower Neighbor Tones
Scales Preceded with Upper & Lower Neighbor Tone Encircling
Common Chromatic Appreach.
7th & 9th CHORD ARPEGGIOS.
Seventh Chords
Ninth Chords.
Arpeggios preceded with Upper & Lower Neighbor Tone Encircling.
Ill, TRIADS & GENERALIZATION .
Pitch Hierarchy
Basic Elaborations of Triads
FF Major Trad.
F Minor Tr
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“riadic Elaboration. - 7
Logo Variations... vn . 62
TTriadic Generalization... Sn . 63
Triadic Musical Examples 68
Application of Tadic Generalization 66
Broken Chord Exercises 7
BIUES LN. se : 70
Blues Scale Musical Examples. . seven
Major Bines Scale. |
Minor Blues Scale co svn
‘Combination of Major & Minor Blues Scales... . 72
General Blues Exercises. cn 3
IV. MELODIC MINOR SCALE EXERCISES...+...ccccsssssssseseeseessennes
Melodic Minor Scales & Modes. . 7
Seventh Mode: Superloctan... Sac icra 79
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Minor 123-5 Pattem. os 80
Major 1-2-35 Pater. 81
Combination of 1-2:3-5 Patterns. ao
97 Arpeggios over Altered Dominant 7ths. 82
Lydian Dominant... “ eee 83
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Combination of Modes. . sa.
Melodic Minor Exercises... 87
‘Arpengio Patterns from Melodic Minor. 87
1-235 & 1-23-45 Pattems from Melodic Minor. 1
41-23-5 Pattem Variations s 95
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Tritone Substitution & Melodic Minor Chords "100
Relationship of Altered Dominants, Lydian Dominants & Melodic Minor Scales
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Secondary Dominants & Tritone Substitution 101
V. DIMINISHED SCALE EXERCISES......c..cs.cssccsseeceeseees sarmamareeerces 109
Whole-Half Diminished Seales... se ceemaees 0D
Half-Whole Diminished Scales... 7109
Diminished Scale Musical Examples. . coe
Diminished Scales Exercises... 116
Diminished Scale Lines over Traditional Harmony sensu 130
VI. MOTIVIC & PENTATONIC PATTERNS... 135
C Major Pentatonic & its Relative A Minor Pentatonie we mnsvmnrnnnn 133
C Major Pentatonic & its Parallel C Minor Pentatoni. 135
Basic Pentatonie Exercises aa 136
Diatonic Triads ofthe Major Pentatonic Scale 137
Diatonic Triads of the Major Pentatonic Scale in All Inversions.. 138
Superimpostion Formulas vi
Side Sipping & Planing... nnn a2
Quarta Sounds. . can
Exercises for Planing & Sie Sipping... 17
Three Note Melodic Motives. : : . 17
Four Note Melodie Motives. cone 48
Fe Note Melodic Motives. - 157
Pentatonic Applications over Traditional Harmony 158
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