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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]