How to play from a real book
Subtitle: for all musicians
By: by Robert Rawlins
Publisher: Hal Leonard; Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9781617803550
Subjects: Instruction and study; Musical accompaniment; Popular music; Music; Fake books
Notes: "Covers many techniques for exploring, understanding, and performing the songs found in real books. You will learn how to analyze the form and harmonic structure, insert an introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, and much more. This book assumes no knowledge of theory beyond the ability to read music in both clefs, but it takes a theory-based approach"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, The history of real books; title: Theory. Intervals ; Chords: construction and function ; Diatonic seventh chords: major ; Diatonic seventh chords: minor ; Chord extensions ; Which extensions and how many? ; Limitations of chord symbols ; Slash chords ; Polychords ; Add and omit chords; title: Analysis and why you need it. Diatonic progressions ; Modulation ; Secondary functions and tonicization ; Borrowed chords and keys ; Blues dominant sevenths ; Tritone substitutions ; Other dominant chord functions ; Final thoughts on analysis; title: Form. Standard popular song forms ; Harmonic templates (The blues ; Minor blues ; Rhythm changes ; Honeysuckle changes ; Long rhythm changes ; Doxy changes ; Indiana changes ; Rose room changes ; Pick yourself up changes ; Miss Jones bridge); title: Playing the form. The arrangement ; Turnarounds ; Introductions ; Endings ; Breaks ; Trading ; Interpreting the melody; title: Bass lines. Bass lines in two ; Bass lines in four ; Latin bass lines; title: Playing the chords. Basic chording ; Rhythmic considerations ; Rootless voicings ; Two-hand voicings ; Drop 2 voicings ; Voicings in fourths; title: Playing the melody and chords together. Ballad playing ; Swing and bebop ; Latin tunes ; Block chords ; Stride ; Combining techniques; title: Improvisation. Basic improvisation ; Guide tone approach ; The blues ; When to ignore the changes ; Vocabulary; title: Reharmonization. Diatonic substitution ; Dominant interchange ; Added ii-Vs ; Added diminished chords ; Added diatonic passing chords ; Descending chromatic minor seventh chords ; Side stepping ; Tritone substitution ; Chord quality change ; Counter-melodies ; Final thoughts on reharmonization.