I am providing a simple three chord rock shuffle blues in all 12 keys. Be sure to try Evan Tate’s 250 Jazz Patterns and Steve Ness’s Dominant Bebop Scale ideas over the blues in all 12 keys. I am including a player for all of the backing music. The backing tracks are all in Concert […]
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I recently learned about the website of Steve Neff from Jacob Lampe. I visited his site and purchased a pdf book entitled “Mastering The Dominant Bebop Scale. The book covers the bebop dominant scale in all 12 keys. After Steve provides you with a number of suggestions and exercises in a particular key – he […]
This post is the third in a series of my posts that review David Baker’s “How To Play Bebop” series. I am reviewing the third volume in this post. This volume is all about techniques for learning and utilizing bebop tunes. This book consists of the following eight chapters: The Contrafact A Technique for Learning […]
David Baker has written three books on how to play bebop. This review will take a look at volume two. The book begins with a preface that traces the beginning of bebop. The book is divided into the following 8 chapters: The Use of the II,V7 Progression in Bebop The III, VI, II, V Progression […]
David Baker has written three books on how to play bebop. This review will take a look at volume one. The book consists of two parts. Part one begins with a brief background of the bebop scales and then begins with the bebop dominant scale. In the most basic terms the bebop scales takes a […]