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A Surprisingly Easy Way to Improvise Music,
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This review is from: Basic mediantic, blues mediantic: New improvisation method, modern jazz/mainstream and others, for keyboard/piano, guitar/bass, single tone or melody instruments (Paperback)
If you don't want to hear about theory, and you just want to learn to improvise quickly, then this book is for you. This is the same text as printed within Pohlert's 'Basic Harmony' textbook, but this book contains only the improvisation method.Pohlert obviously plays both piano and guitar, and he shows with diagrams how to play the `Mediant' approach on these instruments. For tappers playing straight fourths instruments, translation is simple. And for folks who have studied the Mobius Megatar `Easy Touch-Style Bassics' method book, you will discover that you already know all the forms you need to improvise in either the bass or melody region using Pohlert's `Mediant' approach. What is the `Mediant' approach? The word `mediant' means the `middle' tone of a chord, meaning the third of the chord. For example in a C-major triad, the three notes are C - E - G. The `E' is the third of the chord, and the chord built on this note is considered the `mediant' chord to C. Skipping over some detail, specifically we mean that E-minor-7 is the `mediant' chord to the C-Major-7 chord. So if you're improvising a song and the chord symbol says CMaj7, you just play the tones of an Em7 chord. (Actually on the Em7 pentatonic scale, which has the notes E - G - A - B - D.) Pohlert gives a simple set of four rules of substitution, or rather what he calls `re-interpretation'. It works out that all of the chords that you'll use turn out to be the minor seven form, so that's real simple. Oddly enough, when you apply the rules, you will discover that the same `mediant' chord can often substitute for two or more chord symbols in a row, meaning that you do not have to change chords so fast. For example, in a simple `turn-around' chord segment such as CMaj7 - Am7 - Dm7 - G7, you could use Em7 to improvise over both the CMaj7 and the Am7, and then use Dm7 to improvise over both the Dm7 and the G7. Those of us playing two-handed tapping are lucky, like piano players, because we can hit roots or chords in the left hand, and then improvise using this system in the right. It takes practice, just like anything else, but it's easy to understand, fairly easy to do, and can be done with the forms in the `Easy Touch-Style Bassics' book. Pohlert provides the simplest approach to improvisation I've ever seen. For this reason, we have specially imported these books from their publisher in Germany to make them available in the United States. (See 'Accessories \ Learning' section at http://www.megatar.com) `Basic Mediant' gives chord sequences for many common jazz tunes (along with suggested `re-interpretations'), and details fingering on guitar and piano for many of these songs. If you've ever wanted to be able to improvise, but found frustrating the usual approach of learning many positions to play endless kinds of scales, then this book is for you. Pohlert's motto: "Do it Simply, Simply Do It." And he'll actually show you how. --Traktor Topaz, Mobius Megatar Touch-Style Basses, http://www.megatar.com
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