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 […]
Dr. David Baker is credited with originating the phrase “Digital Patterns” . Many great jazz improvisors use digital patterns in their solo’s. Digital patterns are groups of notes usually numbering four to eight notes. A digital pattern is constructed by assigning a number to each note of a scale. A good digital pattern to begin […]