This updated and expanded edition of the essential instruction book provides more than 450 exercises, including hundreds of melodic and rhythmic ideas. The book is designed to help improvisors master the cycle of fifths, one of the primary progressions in music. Guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!
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Reading practice makes perfect,
By Jeanette (St. Petersburg) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cycle of Fifths: Essential Exercises for All Jazz, Traditional and Contemporary Musicians (Plastic Comb)
Best Book for practicing your reading, period. Not a book for someone interested in the jazz essentials or fundamentals. But perfect your reading practice.
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This review is from: The Cycle of Fifths: Essential Exercises for All Jazz, Traditional and Contemporary Musicians (Plastic Comb)
"The Cycle of Fifths" could have been so much more but falls far short of any sort of teaching aid for musicians. What is perhaps one of the most important and simple set of progressions for jazz musicians the ii-V7-I is not ever touched in the book. There are mentions of Kern, Parker, and Ellington in the intro, but not a single snippet of actual song chord changes or ii-V licks are to be found anywhere. There are just 123 pages of the same exercise over and over and over again. The author repeats the same monotonous V7 to V7 to V7 until it bleeds. There is no relenting. After five pages of this stuff, you will be driven to a `cycle of fifths' of a different kind, like a fifth of scotch... Do yourself a favor, and buy a REAL book (http://www.amazon.com/Real-Book-Hal-Leonard-Corporation/dp/0634060384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249352021&sr=8-1). This will teach you much more about the essential ii-V than anything found on this page.
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