Klarinet Archive - Posting 000195.txt from 1995/05

From: "Sydney R. Polk" <jazzman@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: KLARINET Digest - 3 May 1995 to 5 May 1995
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 05:45:38 -0400

Scales and arpeggios for jazz (an incomplete list):

- Major and all of its modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian,
Mixolydian, Aeoilan, Locrian) Note that Aeolian is also
natural minor
- Harmonic minor and all of its modes
- Melodic minor and all of its modes
- The two whole tone scales
- The trhee diminished (octatonic, whole-tone,half-tone, whatever you
want to call it)
- Several different pentatonics
- the blues scale, which is basically a pentatonic with passing
tones

And then all of the above in thirds, fourths and fifths.

And then start on the arpeggios. After all, the arpeggios for a chord
are guaranteed to fit the chord. Do triads, seventh chords, and ninth
chords. Alternate scales and arpeggios (C-E-G-B-A-G-F-E-D-F-A-C, etc.)

This was what I had to do the year I was a jazz saxophone major
at the University of Miami, a truly wonderful jazz school. In addition,
I had to memorize two Charlie Parker soloes, trascribe onto paper
one Pepper Adams solo, transcribe without paper a Cannonball Adderley
solo, work through the Ferling saophone etudes, learn all of my scales
on clarinet, flute and piano (just major and minor), and play long tones.

I practiced a lot. I still had theory and history and ensembles and
English and history also.

After a year of this, I gave up and went into something easy, computer
programming. :)

Syd Polk
jazzman@-----.net