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 […]
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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 […]
Bebop Scales was written by Joe Riposo. Joe Riposo is the Director of Jazz Studies at Syracuse University. What is a bebop scale? The bebop scale is an 8 tone scale. A chromatic half step is added to the basic 7 tone scales to cause the chord tones to fall on the downbeats. The bebop […]
Elements Of The Jazz Language For The Developing Improvisor was written by Jerry Coker. Jerry published his first book “Improvising Jazz” in 1964 and has authored many jazz books. In my opinion he is an outstanding author with a great deal of practical information. Jerry has analyzed many jazz greats and observed 18 common devices […]