An approach to comping
Subtitle: the essentials
By: by Jeb Patton
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781883217785
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Musical accompaniment; Musical meter and rhythm; Instruction and study; Jazz; Recorded accompaniments (Piano); Improvisation (Music); Piano; Studies and exercises (Jazz)
Notes: "A guide to jazz accompanying"--Cover.

Companion CDs contain demonstration and "comp-along" tracks keyed to examples in the text; tracks on the CD are played at a slow tempo for practicing purposes.

"In the appendix you will find a complete guide explaining how jazz pianists, classical pianists, non-pianists, vocalists, guitarists, bassists, and drummers can best use [this workbook]"--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Intro to comping rhythms. Boogie-woogie comping rhythms ; Intro to bass lines; title: Intro to LH comping and basic chord tones. Intro to left hand shell voicings ; Harmonic motion through the blues and intro to LH comping ; Intro to skeletal structures and guide tones ; Applying skeletal structures to the major scale ; Full sounding voicings using only root, 3rd, 5th, and 7th (6th); title: Trombone voicings applied to blues and rhythm changes. Adding to skeletal structures ; ii-V-I progressions with trombone voicings ; Applying TVs to the blues ; Rhythm changes; title: Comping in the bebop era. Thinking vertically and horizontally ; Passing chords ; Comps by Bud Powell and Barry Harris; title: Opening up your voicings. Intro to spread voicings ; Redistributing the notes of a TV between the hands ; Switching from TVRs to spread voicings and back again ; Thinking in terms of shapes over shells ; Comps by Horace Silver, Red Garland, Sonny Clark, and Bobby Timmons; title: Interviews. Harold Mabern ; Renee Rosnes.