With Harmonics in Jazz Improvisation Matthias Petzold, saxophonist and jazz composer, offers a treatise on jazz harmony theory and ways to improvise freely. After all, improvisation is the epitome of one's own creative development and a definitive discipline of good music making. The following points are in the foreground:
Improvisational practice
How to use the tonal relationship of chord progressions to create arcs of tension
Examples of great masters of improvisation
In addition to the intensive theoretical study, the contents also have some exercises, listening tips and suggestions for practical application. This results in a versatile informative work with a holistic and varied education.
For a successful jazz career.
Contents:
Tone, sound and overtone series
The dominant seventh chord and tonal gravity
The Blues and the blues scale
The major scale and the circle of fifths
The chord symbol notation in jazz
Ladder chords and chord functions in jazz
The harmonic analysis
Rhythmic structures in jazz harmony
Voicings and movement techniques
Application to improvisation
The church keys in functional harmony
The modal way of playing
The minor scale
The ladder chords of the minor scale
Harmonic Analysis (continued)
Guide Notes
Intermediate dominants
Dominant substitutes
The diminished seventh chord
The augmented chord
Chords with altered bass note
New chords for known root sequences - Modal Interchange
