Berklee Press Modern Jazz Voicings: Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles - Pease/Pullig - Book/Audio Online

Authors: Ted Pease, Ken Pullig
Format: Book with Audio Online
Subject: Arranging

The definitive text used for the time-honoured 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 colour, character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions, understanding jazz harmony, overcoming harmonic ambiguity, experimenting with unusual combinations and non-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 that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

"A no-nonsense, meat and potatoes source of basic and not-so-basic information about everything relating to jazz writing covers several courses worth of information." - Kenny Werner: Pianist, Composer, and Author of Effortless Mastery