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With Harmonics in Jazz Improvisation Matthias Petzold, saxophonist and jazz composer, offers a treatise on jazz harmony theory and ways to improvise freely. After all, improvisation is the epitome of one's own creative development and a definitive discipline of good music making. The following points are in the foreground:

• Improvisational practice
• How to use the tonal relationship of chord progressions to create arcs of tension
• Examples of great masters of improvisation
  

In addition to the intensive theoretical study, the contents also have some exercises, listening tips and suggestions for practical application. This results in a versatile informative work with a holistic and varied education.

For a successful jazz career.

Contents:

• Tone, sound and overtone series
• The dominant seventh chord and tonal gravity
• The Blues and the blues scale
• The major scale and the circle of fifths
• The chord symbol notation in jazz
• Ladder chords and chord functions in jazz
• The harmonic analysis
• Rhythmic structures in jazz harmony
• Voicings and movement techniques
• Application to improvisation
• The church keys in functional harmony
• The modal way of playing
• The minor scale
• The ladder chords of the minor scale
• Harmonic Analysis (continued)
• Guide Notes
• Intermediate dominants
• Dominant substitutes
• The diminished seventh chord
• The augmented chord
• Chords with altered bass note
• New chords for known root sequences - Modal Interchange
• Chord affinities
• Harmonic Analysis - "Body And Soul
• The altered dominant seventh chord
• The chromatic scale in bebop and hard bop
• Chromatic concepts in jazz of the 1960s and 1970s
• Pentatonics in jazz
• Inside-outside playing with pentatonics
• Chord overlays, superimposition and polytonality
• Scale constructions
• Microtonality
• Epilogue
• Appendix