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Author: John Morton
Date: 2004-04-12 20:36
I would like to devote practice time to arpeggiated chords in all keys - major and minor triads, but especially major and minor 6ths and 7ths and perhaps some of the more basic altered chord forms. The object is to gain facility and speed in the jazz idiom. Is there a book comparable to Baermann 3 that focuses on arpeggios?
thanks
John Morton
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-04-12 20:38
I know there's a book called Stark Arpeggio Studies. However to read it is pure hell. It is filled with double flats, double sharps, etc. The clarinet professor at our college says, "If you can read through that, you'll be able to sight read ANYTHING." However when you hear it, as oddly as it's writting, it's just arpeggiated chords. But it may not be what your looking for . . .
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-04-12 21:55
John -
Baermann III has arpeggios as part of the exercises in each key. Anyway, you don't just play through Baermann. You take one exercise and work it out in the most minute detail, until every change is perfect. Simply take the arpeggio exercises and concentrate on them.
Stark is also very good, and each of the other method books (Klose, Lazarus, Langenus) has arpeggio exercises.
If you find the Stark too easy, get Opperman, Intervalic Permutations, which has alterations in each group of notes, so you feel like a beginner again. Kal told me that Harold Wright used to work on them when he wanted a real challenge.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: mamashep
Date: 2004-04-13 04:18
I use a book called "Patterns for Jazz:Treble insturments" It goes through all arpeggios in all keys, with Jazz nomenclature. It starts very basic, with just root, third, fifth arpeggios, but it goes through all keys and uses chord changes (so you are not always looking at the notes...you have to think on your feet and fill in the blanks). It goes up through 6th, 7th, and 9th chord arpeggios.
Besides arpeggios, it has studies in Dom 7 chords; different mode studies; augmented, whole-tone, diminshed triad and scale exercises; plus a lot of other stuff for playing over chord changes.
So....If greater skill in playing jazz clarinet over chord changes is what you seek, I would recommend this book.
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Author: mamashep
Date: 2004-04-13 04:27
Umm....Jerry Coker, Jimmy Casale, Gary Campbell, and Jerry Greene
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Author: allencole
Date: 2004-04-13 14:20
The Patterns book is a very good one. If it's the same one that I bought about 30 years ago, it also operates on the correct principle. The best way to practice arpeggios, etc. for jazz is to get one example and then put it into the other keys yourself. If you aren't ready to do this with complex stuff, get the Coker book anyway and just start simple. If you need to read more, Patterns for Improvisation by Oliver Nelson can provide you more advanced technical practice from purely reading.
I don't know what your current level is, but you can also get facility in the jazz idiom by playing simple songs by ear in each key. Start with very simple ones that confine themselves to the major scale. Then start branching out. For example, I use Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring as a major-key warmup, for example. Watch out when you do it in B <g>.
I have some arpeggio exercises on my website arranged in ii-V patterns, as well as sheets on chord structure and progressions. I keep them on the web for my students, buy anyone is welcome. You can download .pdf's for free at:
http://allencole.tripod.com/st_instr.htm
If you are new to jazz improvisation, the "My Girl" exercise may prove particularly helpful.
Good luck, and let us know how your experiences are with the Jerry Coker book. He is also the author of an excellent text called "Improvising Jazz."
Allen Cole
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2004-04-13 14:30
The Opperman Daily Studies published by Samuel Baron are excellent...these are book one and two, in the 1st volume is an excellent longer study based on all keys and permutations which is a fine warm up and gets the hands going...
The Velocity studies are also excellent and can be purchased from Carl Fischer.
David Dow
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-04-13 14:37
As David and Ken have already mentioned, the 3rd Opperman book (Intervallic Permutations) is a great study method for altered chords.
A few pages each day (which is probably all you can take) gives the fingers and mind a very challenging workout ...GBK
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Author: John Morton
Date: 2004-04-13 15:20
Thanks all for the suggestions. I think it's fair to say that I'm a proficient improviser, but having seen improvements from visiting Baermann I am inspired to work harder at internalizing jazz harmony by teaching my fingers. Listen to Stan Getz ca. 1953 and you will hear what I'm after - he sounds utterly free, yet always obedient to the prevailing harmony. Of course he was not alone, but that's what I'm listening to at the moment.
I sidled my way into jazz guitar by practising variations on I-VI-II-V, and it strikes me that a wind player would do well to run arpeggios on the same changes.
I do know the chords well and could simply play them, but I assumed there is some pedagogical reason for reading them off the page - perhaps just the discipline of assigning yourself a difficult page for the day.
John Morton
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