Berklee Music Theory Book 2 - 2nd Edition

This essential method features rigorous hands-on 'ears-on' practice exercises that help you explore the inner working of music presenting notes scales and rhythms as they are heard in pop jazz and blues. You will learn andbuild upon the basic concepts of music theory with written exercises listening examples and ear training exercises. The included CD will help reinforce lessons as you begin to build a solid musical foundation. Now available withan answer key!

Learn the nuances of music notation and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols as well as general guidelines for writing music.Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today'smusic industry and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department.Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio Hollywood sound stage grand concert hall worship choir loft or elementary school auditorium this book will help you to create readable professional publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.

Le livre Berklee de l'harmonie jazz
Série : Berklee Guide Éditeur : Berklee Press Format : Couverture souple Audio en ligne Auteurs : Joe Mulholland, Tom Hojnacki
Apprenez l'harmonie du jazz, comme enseigné au Berklee College of Music. Ce texte fournit une base solide dans les principes harmoniques, soutenant une étude plus approfondie de la composition, de l'arrangement et de l'improvisation de jazz. Il couvre les types d'accords de base et leurs tensions, avec des démonstrations pratiques de leur utilisation dans des contextes caractéristiques du jazz et un enregistrement d'accompagnement qui vous permet d'entendre comment ils peuvent être appliqués. Le prix de ce livre comprend l'accès aux pistes audio en ligne, en téléchargement ou en streaming, en utilisant le code unique à l'intérieur du livre. L'audio comprend PLAYBACK , un lecteur audio multifonctionnel qui vous permet de ralentir l'audio sans changer la hauteur, de définir des points de boucle, de changer les touches et de faire un panoramique à gauche ou à droite - disponible exclusivement chez Hal Leonard.
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« Lorsque les êtres futurs découvriront les artefacts de notre culture, le Jazz Harmony Book se démarquera comme le résumé le plus complet de l'harmonie diatonique moderne utilisée dans le jazz et la musique populaire de cette époque. Ce livre est détaillé, sophistiqué et étonnamment branché. J'ai particulièrement apprécié le chapitre sur le blues ainsi que la façon dont les auteurs ont noté l'effet du placement des battements sur les choix harmoniques. Cette phrase m'a frappé : « Nous pouvons entendre et sentir un accord fonctionner dans un sens lorsqu'il arrive, mais notre interprétation de cet accord peut également s'ajuster rétroactivement ». Le livre regorge de descriptions similaires donnant à ce sujet compliqué une vie propre, au-delà des mathématiques et de la terminologie habituelles. -Dave Liebman
« Le Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony est éminemment lisible et convivial. Les auteurs présentent les principes de l'harmonie jazz et de la théorie des gammes d'accords de manière claire et invitante. ? Keith Waters, pianiste de jazz, théoricien et auteur de The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68
« Clair, complet et pratique, le Jazz Harmony Book est en effet une clé bienvenue pour comprendre non seulement la richesse et l'ordre de l'harmonie jazz, mais aussi les nombreux styles musicaux profondément touchés par la large influence de l'harmonie jazz. ? Michael Rendish, président fondateur de l'harmonie, Berklee College of Music
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Available for more than a dozen instruments these coordinated method books teach how to play in a rock band. Learn what all the great musicians seem to know intuitively how to listen interact and respond improvise and become part of the groove. This book and play-along CD will help improve your timing technique and reading ability to become the great Viola player that everyone wants to have in their band! Topics in the Viola book include: warming up practice routines learning by ear theory & technique rhythmic interpretation reading improvisation interpreting lead sheets and more. The accompanying CD features Berklee players and coversa wide variety of styles.

Write for a horn section!
In this book, you will learn how to add saxophones and brass to a rhythm section ensemble. You will learn the capabilities and characteristics of the most common instruments, and how to order them effectively. You will also learn the different roles that a horn section can serve in your ensemble. Online audio tracks demonstrate the key concepts, as exemplified in a complete score.
You will learn to:
Write for alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, as well as trumpet and trombone
Construct common voicings, such as unisons, octave unisons, two- to five-part soli, and open voicings
Expand your harmony by using jazz chords
Use brass mutes
Compose many textures, including melodies, solis, fills, pads, comping parts, background lines, and others
Score advanced harmonic techniques characteristic of brass sections, such as chromatic approach chords, four- and five-part voicings, tension substitutions, and more
?An amazing book that opens your mind for new horn arranging techniques. Horns on steroids!?
?Hassan El Shafei, Artist/Record Producer
?Arranging for Horns is the one-stop-shop the young arranger can make to explore the techniques, applications, and context for contemporary horn arranging. Jerry Gates masterfully compiled three decades of experience?both in classroom and in professional writing?into an organized and concise 80-page text. Highly recommended!?
?Adi Yeshaya, Composer, Arranger (Prince, Aretha Franklin, The Voice)
?An insightful and valuable resource for all arrangers. Jerry?s explanations are very clear and concise. Highly recommended!?
?Mark Harrison, Keyboardist/Composer, Music Educator, and Author
?Jerry is a devoted musician and educator who has written yet another clear and concise book! This time Jerry guides the reader through a direct and useful approach to writing horn arrangements. Included are rhythm section considerations, notations, and a valuable mention about contour shaping as the blueprint for a successful arrangement. This book demystifies arranging for horns and inspires us to dive right in. There are great tools included and distilled from Jerry?s many years of experience and education. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to get quick and positive results without excess theory to weigh the creative process down.?
?David Goldblatt, Composer, Pianist, and Music Director (for national television programs, world tours, and varied media)
?Jerry Gates? Arranging for Horns is a concise yet thorough guide to horn arranging in jazz and popular styles. The book progresses through each vital instrument, offering writing techniques for them as individuals and as a group. Arranging for Horns goes one step further than many treatments of this topic, looking at how an arrangement can vary throughout a song?changing the intensity of the music. This added consideration gives arrangers a powerful tool for adding shape and contour to their songs. Recommended for all arrangers and songwriters.?
?Ben Newhouse, Composer and Educator
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists - 2nd Edition-Improve your songwriting technique with this practical and fun guide to the art of lyric writing from Berklee College of Music songwriting tutor Pat Pattison.If you have written lyrics before even at a professional level you can still gain greater control and understanding of your craft with the exercises and worksheets included in this book. In the Essential Guide To Rhyming you will be shown how to find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing and this guide will provide you with all the technical information necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhymework for you and your lyric writing will greatly improve.You will learn to:Use different types of consonant and vowel sounds to improve your lyric story.Find more rhymes and choose which ones are most effective.Spotlight important ideas using rhyme.The second edition of this classic songwriting text contains new strategies and insights as well as analyses of the rhymes of Randy Newman Warren Zevon T.S. Eliot and other songwriters and poets.

Getting the Most Out of Your Project or Professional Recording Studio-Understanding Audio explores the fundamentals of audio and acoustics that impact every stage of the music recording process. Whether you are a musician setting up your first Pro Tools project studio or you are a seasoned recording engineer or producer eager to find a reference that fills in the gaps in your understanding of audio this book is for you. Understanding Audio will enable you to develop a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of sound and take some of the mystery and guesswork out of how equipment setup affects the quality of your recordings. Projects at the end of each chapter will assist you in applying these principles to your ownrecording environment. Learn about: - Basic and advanced audio theory - Cables and studio wiring - Recording studio and console signal flow - Digital and analog audio - Studio and listening room acoustics - Psychoacoustics - In the Studio insights relating audio principles to real recording situations.

Learn the essential tools and skills for playing jazz guitar. This practical guidebook will help you master the theory technique and conceptual framework for how to play jazz: comping chords soloing and playing withexpression facility and good hand health. The accompanying recording provides demonstrations of key technical concepts with play-along tracks to help you develop phrasing and location concepts on the fingerboard. It also provides examples to train your ear with call-and-response exercises similar to what you might be asked to perform at an audition or jury. A unique section on audition preparation for colleges andprofessional music programs with an extended interview with Berklee College of Music's director of admissions will help you advance in your career.

Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles-The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions understanding jazz harmony overcoming harmonic ambiguity experimenting with unusual combinations andnon-traditional alignments and many more. The accompanying online audio includes performance examples of several different arranging techniques. The audio tracks feature PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

An Instrumental Approach-Learn to improvise like an instrumentalist! Artful vocal jazz improvisation requires knowing the changes and all musicians need to understand what is happening on the musical landscape. This book will help you hear understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony melody and rhythm integrating skills such as conducting and analysis and reinforcing them with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate techniques and let you practice improvising with piano accompaniment.The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed ordownloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Noted jazz pianist, composer, recording artist and educator Andy LaVerne has drawn from his decades of experience playing with master musicians from Getz to Lovano to create this comprehensive compendium of contemporary moving voicings. Quartal, quintal, drop 2, dominant 7b9/diminished, triadic, whole tone and chromatic performance proven voicings pioneered by McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Andy himself are presented and fleshed out in all twelve keys. This book picks up where others leave off, enabling you to replace static chords with voicings that move melodically, dramatically, and gracefully over the entire range of the keyboard. Firmly rooted in contemporary jazz theory, the emphasis is on practical performance applications. Andy ties it all together with illustrations of comping choruses for five standard jazz tunes. Chords in Motion satisfies a long awaited need in actual comping situations, and shows you how to move chords through varying harmonic rhythms. FINALLY ? a book that gives you moving voicings, and sets them in motion in all twelve keys. Chords in Motion is a valuable resource for all keyboardists, arrangers, and instrumentalists. Activate, animate, and energize your comping with this encyclopedic volume. 156 pages, spiral bound for easy opening. Andy carries the flame of jazz piano tradition and just great music. He always inspires me. Chick Corea This is a great book! I am going to sit down and play through this!! I am always telling my non-piano playing students how important it is to work with (and internalize) the sounds that we live with all our lives as Jazz musicians. Coltrane spent years sitting at the piano and so should all of us!!! John Patitucci Berklee College of Music One thing about Andy?he is complete as can be and has been consistently so for years in both his teaching materials and playing. He is completely knowledgeable in such a way that when I play with him, I know he KNOWS!! Plus he is one of the smoothest and polished of players around. Great book?encyclopedic in content. Dave Liebman Founder, Artistic Director, International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) I've played and recorded with Andy LaVerne many times over the years and in many different settings and he's always come up with the hippest, most interesting chords in the most musical way! His way of playing and looking at chords inspires me as a drummer and his rhythm section partner to play things that are in turn inspiring to the rest of the band. This book, helps musicians, understand, in a clear thoughtful presentation, how to go about getting this together. Billy Drummond Jazz Drummer, Educator, Juilliard, NYU Chords in Motion is an outstanding and comprehensive guide by Andy LaVerne, whose encyclopedic knowledge, decades of experience and brilliance as a performer and educator make this an invaluable handbook of modern jazz piano harmony. Its user-friendly, intelligent design enables musicians to expand their harmonic palette and potentially transform their playing, writing and arranging. Chords in Motion is an invaluable contribution to jazz musicians! Lynne Arriale Jazz Pianist, Composer, Educator, Associate Professor of Jazz Piano, Director of Small Ensembles, University of North Florida Chords in Motion is exactly the book I'd expect from Andy LaVerne. It's clear, openhearted and inspiring, as has been every conversation I've had with Andy over the years. Long a fan of his playing, I have enjoyed this look behind the curtain at how Andy LaVerne formulated his signature style. One other thing -- any pianist, no matter his/her approach, will gain insight into what will surely be new and exciting musical directions. Pete Malinverni Jazz Pianist, Educator, Director of Jazz Studies, SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Music What a great resource for expanding the harmonic palette! Chords in Motion is a must have for the aspiring young jazz pianist as well as the seasoned veteran. Another winner from Andy! Paul Schmeling Jazz Pianist, Educator, Chair Emeritus, Piano Department, Berklee College of Music In Chords in Motion, I recognize chords and sounds that have inspired me to compose and play: harmony from the music of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. This book is well organized, and from the beginning gets you playing. Each chord structure is explained and developed. There is plenty to practice. I especially like the exercises using contrary motion, arpeggiation

for Jazz Improvisation. Par ORO XABIER. With content ranging from theory and history to practical exercises, examples, études, and play-along tracks, this book offers the most comprehensive guide ever written for this esoteric and traditionally obscure scale. Simply put, it reveals the last big secret of jazz fusion?s avant-garde.According to which music theorist believes he first discovered it, this scale has been known variously as Messiaen?s mode 3, Slonimsky?s Tcherepnin Scale (honoring his colleague), and Tcherepnin?s own name for it? the 9-note augmented or nonatonic scale.The nine notes of the double-symmetrical augmented scale have fascinated and crucially influenced legendary musicians like John Coltrane, Allan Holdsworth, Mark Turner, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Nelson Veras, Tim Miller, Gary Thomas, and Jerry Bergonzi, among many others.Coltrane?s historic composition, ?Giant Steps,? can be directly attributed to his familiarity with the nonatonic scale. With this book by Berklee College of Music honors graduate, Xabier Oró, you?ll know the secret too.Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Etude / Guitare