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BERKLEE - SOLO JAZZ PIANO - Neil Olmstead

The Linear Approach
R$ 299,99

Disponibilidade: Indisponível

Código: 50449641

Editora: Hal Leonard 30

Idioma: Inglês

Autor/Artista: Neil Olmstead

Instrumento: Piano

Formato: Livro Físico / Audio Online / Partitura / 302 páginas

UPC: 073999494440

 

SOLO JAZZ PIANO é um livro muito rico dentro do assunto: improvisação de jazz para piano. Aprenda a improvisar utilizando as técnicas de grandes pianistas como Lenny Tristano e Dave McKenna. Este livro mostra interpretação de cifras de maneira jazzistica e sofisticada, desenvolvimento de linhas de baixo e sua grande influência na melodia, como tocar linhas melódicas simultaneamente estimulando uma conversação musical, além de diversos estudos sobre chord voicings e arranjos, fazendo com que a através da simples melodia, você crie solos e desenvolva sua criatividade. São vinte e uma lições mostrando técnicas, exercícios práticos, e melodias baseadas em standards de jazz, entre outros importantes assuntos. As faixas de áudio estão disponíveis online para download ou streaming, juntamente com um player digital multifuncional (Playback+), que permite alterar o andamento sem alterar o tom, definir pontos específicos para tocar (loop), alterar o tom, além de balanço direita/esquerda.

Audio Online

Berklee Press

Sinopse Original:

Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz piano improvisation will free your creative sense of music. It begins with a review of chord symbol interpretation, walks through bass line development, and ends with how to play several melodic lines simultaneously in stimulating musical conversation. You'll learn how to develop solos that embellish and support the melody, and use lead sheets to help you generate your own musical ideas. Twenty-one lessons present techniques, practice exercises, and tunes based on jazz standards. Notated transcriptions of sample improvisations illustrate each lesson's technique, and the accompanying audio lets you hear a master improviser put these ideas to work. Packed with hundreds of ideas that will teach you the art of improvisation!

The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Packed with hundreds of ideas that will teach you the art of improvisation, this book will help you:

.Develop Pianistic Bass Lines That Capture The Heart Of The Tune
.Interpret Chord Symbols Melodically and Harmonically
.Use Rhythmic Ideas Such as Metric Modulation to Develop A Sense Of Motion and Developmente
.Simultaneously Improvise In Multiple Voices
.Use Contrapuntal Conceps Such as Pedal Point, Guide-Tone Lines, and Non-Chord Tones To Lend Coherence and Interest To Your Improvisations

Índice:

Foreword by William Thomas McKinley
Aknowledgments
Introduction

PART 1 - CHORDS

1. Fundamentals of Chord Theory
2. Chord Extensions

PART II - BASS LINES

3. Half-Note Motives
4. Ballad to Swing
5. Walking Bass
6. Linear Motives
7. The Jazz Waltz
8. Compound Lines
9. Embellishing the Bass Line
10. Pedal Point
1l The Blues and Beyond
12. Triads
13. The Latin Connection

PART III - MULTIPLE VOICE IMPROVISATION

14 Guide-Tone Lines
15. Non-Chord Tones
16. The Melody in the Middle
17. Rhythmic Freedom
l8. Melodic Freedom
19. Tristano Techniques
20. Metric Modulation
21. Motivic Development and Imitation

APPENDICES

A. Biographies
B. Discography
C. Modes and Jazz Scales
D. Linear Independence Exercises

About the Author

Neil Olmstead is an active jazz pianist, teacher, and composer. During a ten-year solo piano residency at Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel, he opened for Teddy Wilson, Dave McKenna, and Adam Makowicz, among others. Recordings of his classical compositions include "Sinfonia Borealis" and "Night Fishing" (Master Musicians Collective). He holds a bachelor of music from Berklee College of Music and a master of music from New England Conservatory. Neil is currently Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music.

BUZZ

"This weighty book and audio provide you with a framework with which to develop your ability to think (and play) in a linear fashion. The exercises are very musical, the explanations clear. A good way to grow your improvisation musicianship."

-How to Jam (Keyboard magazine supplement)

"I recommend this well conceived and researched book. The tunes that Neil uses as a base for his etudes are wonderful."

-Dave McKenna, professional piano player

"Solo Jazz Piano includes a wide variety of techniques and ideas that are certain to captivate students and teachers alike. It shows how to apply these ideas, step by step, in a very clear, interesting, and practical manner. I highly recommend it to those aspiring to develop a solid foundation of solo jazz piano playing."

-Joanne Brackeen, Composer, jazz pianist, Professor, Berklee College of Music

"At last, a book that gives the student solo pianist insight as to how to break away from stride and explore the more profound aspects of jazz time and improvisation."

-Alan Broadbent, pianist, composer, arranger