"Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz piano improvisation will free your creative sense of music. It begins with a review of chord symbol interpretation, walks through bass line development, and ends with how to play several melodic lines simultaneously in stimulating musical conversation. You'll learn how to develop solos that embellish and support the melody, and use lead sheets to help you generate your own musical ideas. Twenty-one lessons present techniques, practice exercises, and tunes based on jazz standards. Notated transcriptions of sample improvisations illustrate each lesson's technique..."

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Part I. Chords: Fundamentals of chord theory ; Chord extensions -- Part II. Bass Lines: Half-note motives ; Ballad to swing ; Walking bass ; Linear motives ; The jazz waltz ; Compound bass lines ; Embellishing the bass line ; Pedal point ; The blues and beyond ; Triads ; The Latin connection -- Part III. Multiple voice improvisation: Guide-tone lines ; Non-chord tones ; The melody in the middle ; Rhythmic freedom ; Melodic freedom ; Tristano techniques ; Metric Modulation ; Motivic development and imitation -- Appendices: Biographies ; Discography ; Modes and jazz scales ; Linear independence exercises ; Glossary ; About the author

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