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Improvise Now: How to Start a Phrase of Improvisation from Any Starting Point of the Scale
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This book explains to the student how to start a phrase of Improvisation from any starting point of the scale (Major, dominant, minor, diminished, etc.)
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sheets can be enlarged by tapping on the center of the page. Good scale book.
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Improvise Now - Olegario Diaz
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Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction
Diatonic Exercises
Scales for Dominant 7th Chords
Arpeggio Exercises Extended From the Root
Flexibility Exercises
Exercises From the Root, Third, and Fifth
Tetrachords
Arpeggio Ascending, Scale Descending
Exercises in Review
Dorian, Locrian Whole Tone Scales, etc.
Diatonic Harmonic Minor Scales
Five Note Major Pentatonic Scales
Exercises Based on Giant Steps
Major Scales Interval Exercises
Diatonic and Chromatic Exercises
Quartal Chord-Chromatic
Descending 2nds, 3rds, and 4ths
Jazz Lines on IIm7, V7 and IMaj.7 Chords
Extended Jazz Lines
Patterns on Chromatic II-V7
Patterns on Major and Dominant Chords
Patterns Used by John Coltrane
Chromatic Exercises On Pentatonic Scale
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