J.W. Pepper Music Catalog
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4Editors' Choice (Best of 2017 Publications) lNew for 2017 HPepper Basic Library Available via ePrint All Prices in U.S. Dollars & Subject To Publisher Revision 82 jazz ensemble Go to cart Bebop Scales (Jazz Scales & Patterns in All 12 Keys)—Joe Riposo. Phrase like a pro! By simply adding one chromatic note, you can convert the most commonly used scales into bebop scales. Bebop scales almost magically turn scales into jazz lines, adding melodic flow and logical forward motion to your solos. This makes hitting those target notes much easier and facilitates the seamless connection of one chord to another. The one added note makes all the difference! 10561399 Treble Clef Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95 10561400 Bass Clef Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.95 H Berklee Music Theory - Book 1 (2nd Edition)—Paul Schmeling. This essential method features rigorous, hands-on, "ears-on" practice exercises that help you explore the inner workings of music, presenting notes, scales, and rhythms as they are heard in pop, jazz, and blues. You will learn and build upon the basic concepts of music theory with written exercises, listening examples, and ear training exercises. The included CD will help reinforce lessons as you begin to build a solid musical foundation. Now available with an answer key. 10281308 Book with Online Audio Access . . 24.99 H Berklee Music Theory - Book 2 (2nd Edition)—Paul Schmeling. This volume focuses on harmony, including triads, seventh chords, inversions, and voice leading for jazz, blues and popular music styles. You'll develop the tools needed to write melodies and create effective harmonic accompaniments from a lead sheet. This revised edition includes an answer key for all exercises and lessons to check your progress. 10284883 Book/CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.99 H Essential Elements Jazz Play-Along: Jazz Standards—Michael Sweeney & Mike Steinel. At last, a jazz play-along book for developing players! In addition to being a perfect introduction to some of the best-known jazz standards, this book includes hints for improvising on each tune, a guide to jazz articulations, plus a scale/chord correlation chart. Biographical sketches of key jazz figures are also included. And, if that wasn't enough, each tune comes with its own sample solo for reference or performance. The professionally recorded audio CD also includes tempo adjustment software for use in your computer (CD-ROM) with a choice of full recordings with melody, or rhythm section only. Titles included are: Now's the Time, Killer Joe, Blue Bossa, C-Jam Blues, Footprints, Song for My Father, Autumn Leaves, Freddie Freeloader, St. Thomas and Blue Train. The rhythm section book also includes bass lines, piano voicings and drum patterns. Careful attention has been given to this series to make it stylistically appropriate for each instrument. This is excellent training material and a lot of fun for developing players! 2480214 Book/CD Bb, Eb & C Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.99 2480215 Book/CD Flute, F Horn, Tuba. . . . 15.99 2480216 Book/CD Rhythm Section . . . . . . 15.99 Essential Elements Jazz Play-Along: The Blues—Michael Sweeney, Paul Murtha & Mike Steinel. Welcome to the exciting world of jazz improvisation! Whether used as a supplement to the Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble method book or just by itself, this play-along book and CD-ROM will help students in creating their own improvised solos. The recordings feature professional jazz players performing familiar jazz classics and provide an excellent model for playing in a jazz style. In addition, sample solos are provided as a guide for creating effective melodies. An added feature on the CD-ROM is a software program for changing the tempo of any of the recorded tracks! When used in a computer, "The Amazing Slow Downer" will allow students to adjust the tempo without changing the pitch. Includes 10 blues classics: All Blues; Bags' Groove; Blue 'N Boogie; Blue Monk; Blues in Frankie's Flat; Blues in the Closet; Cold Duck Time; St. Louis Blues; Straight No Chaser and Tenor Madness. 10335884 Book/CD Bb, Eb & C Instruments 15.99 10335885 Book/CD Flute, F Horn, Tuba. . . . 15.99 10335886 Book/CD Rhythm Section . . . . . . 15.99 The Essential Jazz Harmony Book (For All Instrumentalists and Arrangers)— Dan Haerle. Jazz has evolved its own harmony apart from other genres of music. In order to improvise and compose in the idiom, a basic understanding of this harmony, how chords move and connect with each other, is essential. In this book, noted author and educator Dan Haerle explains all the fundamental chord/scale theory and harmony you need to know. At the end of the book are voicings to over 20 standard chord progressions so that you can clearly see and hear how the various rules apply in real world situations. Written for all musicians, no keyboard skills are required, but knowing the names of the notes on a keyboard will be helpful. 10590270 Spiral-Bound Book. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.95 Improvisation 101: Major, Minor and Blues (A Step By Step Approach for Developing Improvisers)—Greg Yasinitsky. Improvisation 101 is a step-by-step approach to improvisation in jazz, rock and pop music. Based on easy music which can be practiced together with a band on the play-along CD, each chapter comes with brief explanations as to which notes sound best when improvising and why. Solos by experienced jazz musicians serve as examples for the player's own attempts at improvisation. The textbook can also be used by a band at schools or music schools for pupils with at least two years of instrumental lessons. 10617695 C Instruments Book/CD . . . . . . . . 23.95 10617697 Bb Instruments Book/CD . . . . . . . 23.95 10617696 Eb Instruments Book/CD . . . . . . . 23.95 10617698 Bass Clef Book/CD . . . . . . . . . . . 23.95 10617699 Piano Book/CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.95 10617700 Guitar Book/CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.95 Jazz Session Trainer (The Woodshedder's Practice Kit)—Larry Dunlap. Jazz Session Trainer is the ideal resource for those players wanting to hone their improvising skills, improve their chops, and feel at home in a jazz session. In addition to a generous dose of scales, exercises, and licks, the book includes a chapter on jam session etiquette, a practice planner, and chord charts, plus accompanying online audio through the publisher's website for 50 frequently played tunes. . 10541888 C Instruments Book/Online Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.99 10547467 Bb Instruments Book/Online Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.99 10550062 Eb Instruments Book/Online Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.99 H Jazz Theory Book—Mark Levine. Over 500 pages of text and over 750 musical examples. Written in the language of the working jazz musician, this book is easy to read and user-friendly. At the same time, it is the most comprehensive study of jazz harmony and theory ever published. The Jazz Theory Book takes the student from the most basic techniques such as chord construction and the II-V-I progression through scale theory, the blues, I've Got Rhythm changes, slash chords, the bebop and pentatonic scales, how to read a lead sheet and memorize tunes and a study of reharmonization that is almost a book in itself. Satisfaction guaranteed or money will be refunded. Mark Levine has worked with Bobby Hutcherson, Cal Tjader, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, and many other jazz greats. 5455076 Paperback Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.00 JazzDeck (Textbook in a Box)— Brian Switzer. For teachers, students and performers, JazzDeck is comprised of 54 high- grade playing cards color-coded by chord type to systematically illustrate the ways to excel as a jazz soloist. Each card presents players with the basic notes necessary to sound good over a given chord, followed by those they need to know to sound great. With its elegant presentation and multidimensional platform, JazzDeck is especially suited to players at any level who might find traditional music notation and theory intimidating. JazzDeck transposes for each instrument, allowing teachers to lead groups through chord changes without having to respell chords in each key. The fastest way to sound great playing jazz! See a video overview on jwpepper.com. 10490922 Flexible Instrumentation . . . . . . . . 19.95 Patterns for Improvisation—Oliver Nelson. Now available in a bass clef edition! Many jazz greats have fond memories of practicing from this great resource. It features an exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels. Comments and suggestions are included by the author, a legendary composer, arranger, conductor and instrumentalist. This is a very popular book because it helps spell out some of the basic building blocks of the jazz language. It's regarded by many jazz teachers as one of the essentials for their students, and is one of the world's most popular patterns books! 8603724 Treble Clef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.95 10590273 Bass Clef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.95 H Patterns for Jazz—Jerry Coker. Patterns for Jazz stands as a monument among jazz educational materials. Condensed charts and pertinent explanations are conveniently inserted throughout the book to give greater clarity to the application of more than 400 patterns built on chords and scales from simple (major) to complex (lydian augmented scales). 922153 Paperback Book Treble Clef . . . . 25.99 Rhythm First! (A Beginner's Guide to Jazz Improvisation)—Tom Kamp. In a step-by-step fashion, Rhythm First! builds up the student's library of rhythmic figures and has them playing along with the accompanying CD to get the sound and feel of jazz soloing under their fingers. Melodically, the book starts with playing simple rhythmic figures on any note, then on the tonic of the F blues scale, followed by the tonic and one other note. Over the course of the book, it progresses to show how and when to use three kinds of blues scales. This method is more fun and therefore more successful in getting students starting to improvise than many other approaches. A must for any school jazz program! 10567894 Book/CD C Version . . . . . . . . . . . 22.00 JAZZ IMPROVISATION RESOURCES Practice, study, learn and play! See more improvisation resources at jwpepper.com.