Jazz vocal improvisation : an instrumental approach / Mili Bermejo.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Bermejo, Mili, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocal improvisation (Music).

Singing--Methods (Jazz).

Singing.

Jazz.

Genre:

Methods (Music)

Jazz.

Methods (Music) -- Jazz.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 score (xi, 121 pages) ; 31 cm

Distribution:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Distributed by Hal Leonard.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Berklee Press, [2017]

Language Note:

Staff notation.

Summary:

This book applies concepts of theory, harmony, melody and rhythm to the practice of jazz vocal improvisation, in the same way these concepts are taught to instrumentalists.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Creating awareness

Groove, swing, and vocal sounds and syllables

Improvising over forms

Intervals, scales, and chords

Improvising over a 12-bar blues form

Functional harmony

Tensions and chord scales

Turnarounds

Patterns

Analyzing chord progressions

Improvising on non-diatonic chords and tensions

Patterns and dominant resolution

Jazz practice exercises

Working with advanced patterns

Developing patterns

Using the piano for improvisation practice

Afterword

About the author

Index.

Notes:

Includes index (pages 117-121).

Includes code for online audio access.

Includes Foreword by Dr. Diane Richardson, Preface and Afterword by the author, and author biography in English.

ISBN:

0876391854

9780876391853

OCLC:

984485343

Publisher Number:

888680617110

HL00159290 Hal Leonard