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By womz
If you're a rock guitarist and know your pentatonic scale this is a great approach to jazz. Lots of examples and backing tracks.
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Excellent Book from a Master Improviser and Teacher
10 Mar 2006
By Louis W. Arnold
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This book gives the student (we're all students aren't we?)a very balanced approach to broadening his or her mastery of pentatonics in a jazz context. Bruce Saunders explains the many applications of familiar pentatonic scales in a really concise way and lays out very musical illustrations in notation and tab with recorded examples. I like the recorded tracks because they are played in a swinging relaxed style by some really happening players who make a living playing jazz in New York. Bruce has been a teacher at Berklee College since the 1980's and a working musician for a long time. I've found that good focused work on this material has opened my ears and fingerboard awareness. While the book begins with the familiar minor seventh pentatonics, Bruce shows how to use them in new ways and then gives us other less familiar but really important pentatonic scales with applications and recorded examples. There's lots to work on here but I believe it's just the right amount of material - not overwhelming and that's important.
Jazz improvisation is a life long pursuit and no one teacher or book will make a student a great improviser over night. This book is one of the really useful ones due to its balanced content, the quiet competence of the author, solid musicality and straight ahead playing by the musicians on the included CD.
Jazz improvisation is a life long pursuit and no one teacher or book will make a student a great improviser over night. This book is one of the really useful ones due to its balanced content, the quiet competence of the author, solid musicality and straight ahead playing by the musicians on the included CD.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent book
25 Nov 2009
By Jason Q
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this is a well thought out, well organized presentation of pentatonics for jazz. Bruce Saunders is a great teacher and player. this book includes plenty of conceptual information as well as exercises for getting the scales under your fingers and into your improvising. check out his other ones too, they're all great.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Good Book!
13 July 2012
By Jimmy B.
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Very good book that takes the penatonic scales beyond blues and rock.
Should help to open up new improv ideas for the guitarist interested in applying the penatonic scales to jazz.
Not for the beginner. Would be helful if the guitarist had a background in the 2-5-1 chord patterns and chord subsitutions, along with knowing the notes of chords.
With a little imagination and practice you should be able to pick up some good solo ideas from the examples and apply them to your playing when improvising on a 2-5-1 chord pattern, or playing on on a static chord,
Should help to open up new improv ideas for the guitarist interested in applying the penatonic scales to jazz.
Not for the beginner. Would be helful if the guitarist had a background in the 2-5-1 chord patterns and chord subsitutions, along with knowing the notes of chords.
With a little imagination and practice you should be able to pick up some good solo ideas from the examples and apply them to your playing when improvising on a 2-5-1 chord pattern, or playing on on a static chord,
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