Mel Bay Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale for Jazz Improvisation - Oro - Book/Audio Online

Author: Xabier Oro
Format: Book with Audio Online
Subject: Jazz Improvisation
Level: Intermediate-Advanced

With content ranging from theory and history to practical exercises, examples, etudes, 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 (honouring 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 honours graduate, Xabier Oro, you'll know the secret too.

Includes access to online audio.

Contents:

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR CHORD SYMBOL NOTATION PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• I. HOW THE DOUBLE-SYMMETRICAL AUGMENTED SCALE FITS IN THE TONAL SYSTEM
• II. MODES OF THE DOUBLE-SYMMETRICAL AUGMENTED SCALE
• III. CHORDS & VOICINGS
• IV. RULES FOR USING THE DOUBLE-SYMMETRICAL AUGMENTED SCALE
• V. VOICE LEADING
• VI. MUSICAL EXAMPLES & EXERCISES
• VII. MUSICAL DEVICES
• VIII. USES OF THE DOUBLE-SYMMETRICAL AUGMENTED SCALE WITH OTHER SYMMETRICAL SCALES
• NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CONCLUSION

Audio Contents:

• 01 Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale Mode 1
• 02 Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale Mode 2
• 03 Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale Mode 3
• 04 Messiaen Ressonance Chord
• 05 Tcherepnin Scale
• 06 Augmented Steps (Chord Progression)
• 07 D Melodic Minor F+ Triad
• 08 E Neapolitan Minor G+ Triad
• 09 A Harmonic Minor C+ Triad
• 10 F+/G+/C+= F Double-Symmetrical Augmented Scale
• 11 Fsus2/Asus2/Cssus2 and Csus4/Esus4/Gssus4
• 12 Mode 1 Voicings
• 13 Mode 2 Voicings
• 14 Mode 3 Voicings
• 15 Hubert Nuss's Orchestrations
• 16 Application IΔ V7 (Example)
• 17 Application IΔ V7 (Play-Along)
• 18 Application IΔ VI7 II-7 V7 (Example)
• 19 Application IΔ VI7 II-7 V7 (Play-Along)
• 20 Application to Blues (Example)
• 21 Application to Blues (Play Along)
• 22 Application: "InterStella" (Example)
• 23 Application: "InterStella" (Play-Along)