Download or read book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres, from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for composition and improvisation. Think about this book as a melodic reference manual or plot wheel. Looking for new material to add to your playing instruction, improvisations, or composition? This book has more than you'll ever be able to use. Many serious musicians have a copy of this lying around somewhere.
Download or read book Music Theory Workbook for Guitar Volume Two written by Bruce E. Arnold and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides real hands-on application for 22 different scale types. A theory section written in easy-to-understand language prepares the student for all exercises. Answers are supplied and audio files are available for free online.
Download or read book Rhythms Volume Two written by Bruce E Arnold and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what your instrument, a thorough understanding of rhythmic notation is essential. In order to be prepared to read through any piece of music, the serious musician must be able to recognize, read and play rhythms fluidly. Rhythms Volume Two is a further investigation of rhythms, this time using the sixteenth note as the unit of measure. There are 108 pages of rhythm patterns structured in this way. All examples use one pitch, allowing the student to focus completely on time and rhythm on the instrument of their choice. All exercises can be downloaded from the internet to facilitate correct practice, enhance clarity and aid internalization. This book is a required text at New York Universities and Princeton University Music department.
Download or read book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns for Guitar written by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation and published by Music Sales Amer. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). This book is a condensed, made-for-guitar version of Nicolas Slonimsky's publication Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns the book that musicians as diverse as John Coltrane and Frank Zappa used for ideas and inspiration. Musicians familiar with the original Thesaurus know that it contains a daunting amount of information crammed in its over 230 pages. But there is a definite symmetry and logic in these Slonimsky examples. What appear to be random patterns are actually mathematical combinations of some or all of the twelve notes in music. As the musician/student plays through the examples, the patterns will unfold and become more obvious.
Download or read book Essential Scales written by Bruce Arnold and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essential Scales" was written to supply students with all the necessary information to tackle the 22 most used scales in contemporary music. Composers and improvisors will find extensive information about many aspects of scales along with a melodic thesaurus of 2 and 3 note melodies. Students often ask how to achieve fast and accurate playing. The Long Line Rhythm concept is presented so instrumentalist can achieve this goal with all exercises.
Download or read book Chord Workbook for Guitar Volume Two written by Bruce E Arnold and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in that it has all the possible chord voicings on the top four strings of the guitar. These are the voicings that are used in funk, rock, R&B, and jazz. A chord progression section is also included and allows the student to use the common progressions of a blues and minor blues. The information presented in Volume Two builds on the theoretical material presented in Volume One, but also introduces highly advanced reharmonization concepts. Intermediate students will find the progressions challenging, while the reharmonization section will be a most rewarding exercise for the advanced student. This book is the required text at both New York University and Princeton University. TOC Music theory and chord construction Triad Inversions 7th Chords and Inversions Chord progressions for practice 7th Chords and Inversions continued Chord progressions for practice Inversions of Major 7th chords with available tensions Chord progressions for practice Inversions of Minor 7th chords with available tensions Chord progressions for practice Inversions of Dominant 7th chords with available tensions Chord progressions for practice Inversions of Dominant 7sus4 chords with available tensions Chord progressions for practice Inversions of Minor 7b5 chords with available tensions Inversions of Diminished 7th chords with available tensions Inversions of Minor Major 7th chords with available tensions Chord progressions for practice Inversions of Major 7#5 chords with available tensions Chord Reharmonization Chord Scales and Available tensions 12 12 Bar Blues chord progressions 12 Minor Blues chord progressions
Download or read book Contemporary Guitar Harmony For Advanced Guitarists Only written by Masaya Yamaguchi and published by Masaya Music. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Level. The motivation for this book was to develop my The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales and delve into my findings about music education. This book is also intended to answer guitar players demands for my harmony lessons (this textbook price is more reasonable than a one-time private lesson fee). This book offers guitarists an effective and novel approach to contemporary guitar harmony. I have presented all possible (forty-three) four-note groupings (i.e. subsets), which may be used for tonal or meta-tonal harmonic progressions currently acceptable on the contemporary music scene. The principles in this book are not of passing theoretical interest, but an effective guide to musical life and how guitar harmony can be expanded to the fullest extent. Knowing possibilities in four-note groups and voicings systems will begin to unlock possibilities for music in the 21st century. Further possibilities live in each one of our guitars, waiting to be discovered. I would like to dedicate this book to all guitarists from the four corners of the earth, who wish to expand their expressive palette in Contemporary Guitar Harmony.
Download or read book Guitar Technique written by Bruce E. Arnold and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for both the beginning guitarist or the more experienced guitarist who wishes to improve their technique. All aspects of the physical act of playing the guitar are covered, from how to hold a guitar, to the specific way each hand is involved in the playing process. Pictures are provided within the book to help clarify each technique. More valuable explanatory pictures and videos can be downloaded for free at www.muse-eek.com This book is excerpted from "1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist Volume One."
Download or read book Jazz Piano Vocabulary Volume One Major Scale written by Roberta Piket and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first volume in a series designed to help the student of jazz piano learn and apply jazz scales by mastering each scale and its uses in improvisation. Volume 1 focuses on the major scale, illustrating the scale in all twelve keys with complete fingerings. Chords and left hand voicings, exercises and etudes to help apply the material to improvising, ideas for further study and listening, and detailed instructions and suggestions on how to practice the material are also provided. Volume 1 also includes primers on note-reading, theory basics from intervals through seventh chords, and rhythmic notation.
Download or read book YAMAGUCHI Guitar Method written by Masaya Yamaguchi and published by Masaya Music. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to answer guitarists demands for my lessons. Ultimately, it depends on who will learn it and how they utilize my method. Over the years, I had been asked to compile my guitar method book, but I was very reluctant to do so until I completed my improvisation book Yamaguchi Improvisation Method (New York: Masaya Music, 2012). Because after all, my priority is to teach music, especially improvised music --- not how to play the guitar. Though this book required a huge amount of work to complete, I finished it for all my fellow guitar players, who regularly use my The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales. The YAMAGUCHI Guitar method in this book is highly original and much different from most books in today s jazz pedagogy. This is a new kind of guitar method book that will leave no student behind if you interpret my words correctly. I hope the YAMAGUCHI Guitar method will guide you to unlock melodic possibilities and broaden your musical vocabulary. GOOD LUCK!
Download or read book Fundamentals of Guitar written by Miles Okazaki and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to be useful for guitarists at any skill level. Beginners can use it as an introduction to the foundational concepts of the instrument, intermediate players can use it for training and theoretical work, and advanced players can explore the sections on advanced theory, extended technique and the exhaustive tables of melodic and rhythmic possibilities. It is divided into two parts: pitch and rhythm. Part 1 (pitch) begins with the properties of string, harmonics, and tuning systems. It then moves methodically through pitch information, beginning with locating all versions of a single pitch, building pentatonic, heptatonic, and all possible symmetrical scales. This is followed by a study of intervals, with all possible locations of every two pitches, and a long study that moves through every possible fingering of three pitches, with a series of exercises to master triadic syntax. Part 1 closes with a study of four-pitch structures and complete tables that show all possible pitch sets in circular visual notation. Part 2 (rhythm) begins with a complete course in "Symmetrical Picking," a method based on drum rudiments that builds control in the picking hand through an exhaustive variety of movements. The focus of this section is building a strong rhythmic foundation, with a focus on efficiency, accuracy, speed, dynamics, and groove. It is followed by a study of legato playing, working with ornaments and slides. The study of playing with fingers on multiple strings takes up the remainder of the book. This begins with the study of pulse against pulse, playing two simultaneous tempos. The book concludes with a study of polyrhythm, playing one rhythm against another. Plain English is used as much as possible to describe theoretical concepts, and hundreds of illustrations were made for the book as an aid to those who either don't speak English or prefer to think visually. This approach is designed to be inclusive and to promote creative practice. The main idea of the book is described in this passage (page 154): "Even in this small area there is a lot of material, potentially a lifetime of study. The amount of information can feel overwhelming to students at any level. For this reason, the book is designed for self-directed practice, with an emphasis on what the player "could" do, rather than what the player "should" do. The principle is to develop your own learning process, rather than following someone else's. The ability to make choices is essential in finding a personal approach to the instrument. Pick and choose the studies that seem interesting - there should be enough variety to accommodate a wide range of personalities. If any particular concept or exercise has been useful as the starting point for a new creative direction, then the book has done its job. Its purpose is not to push any dogma, method, or style, but to open the door to options for guitarists of any background that are looking for new perspectives.
Download or read book A Thesaurus of English Word Roots written by Horace Gerald Danner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.
Download or read book Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns written by Yusef Lateef and published by . This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scale Pattern Studies for Guitar written by Aaron Shearer and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scale pattern studies.
Download or read book YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method written by Masaya Yamaguchi and published by Masaya Music. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivation for the YAMAGUCHI improvisation method was to develop my The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales and delve into my findings about music education. I do not have any aspiration to write the best-selling how to improvise textbook, but I did have the perspiration required to complete the best content improvisation method book available to any instrumentalist. My main priorities are to boost teaching quality as well as general academic standards in music pedagogy. The YAMAGUCHI improvisation method is also intended to answer musicians demands for my lessons (This textbook price is more reasonable than one-time private lesson fee). With my original method revealed in this book, you will be able to activate, in your music, The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales, Symmetrical Scales for Jazz Improvisation, Pentatonicism in Jazz: Creative Aspects and Practice, and Lexicon of Geometric Patterns for Jazz Improvisation. The motto of the YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method is, "Search not for the tracks of the people of old, Search for that which they aspired to." Keep stimulating your interests by researching the past, and searching within yourself. I hope that the YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method will guide you to become a complete artist. GOOD LUCK!
Download or read book Mastering the Modes for the Rock Guitarist written by Dave Celentano and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Educational). Learn the seven modes, all while playing chords and solos in the styles of Randy Rhoads, Alex Lifeson, John Petrucci, Eric Clapton, Yngwie Malmsteen and others. Beginner, intermediate and advanced solos are included for each mode, as well as seven jam tracks on two DVDs, so you can practice these solos or make up your own. Also includes detailed instruction on common chords and scale patterns for each mode. More than 3 hours of instruction and jam tracks on 2 DVDs!
