Albert Mangelsdorff

Anleitung zur Improvisation

Jazz is rhythm and improvisation. This guide aims to show the way for anyone to learn how to improvise. All levels of difficulty are included, from simple exercises to full-blown choruses. In addition, two or more players of different instruments can familiarize themselves with collective improvisation by practicing together. For this purpose, the exercises of the same number have the same harmonic sequence and the same (sounding) key for all instruments.
Success will come if the peculiarities of rhythm, the rules of melody formation and the harmonic basics of jazz are observed in the writings from the Jazz Studio series.
Contents
- The Instrument
- Instructions for Improvisation
- Explanation of Phrasing Marks
- Chordal Notes
- Careless Love Melody
- Careless Love Chorus Blues
- Diatonic-Chordal Notes
- Accompaniment
- Chromatic-Chordal Notes and Blue Notes
- The Cadenza Number
- Chordal tones
- Diatonic chordal tones
- Chromatic chordal tones
- Go down Moses
- Chordal tones
- Diatonic chordal tones
- Chromatic chordal tones (each using Go down Moses as an example)
- Ways to enrich the sound
- Altered chords.