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Relative minor is aptly named since it relates to a major scale. So check your spam folder, etc., if you don’t seem to be able to find it.There are three basic types of minor scales: Relative Minor, Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor.

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Thanks! And please know that when you place your order (through PayPal), you should immediately receive the link for the actual download from WordPress (not PayPal). If you have any questions about the material in this book, or are having problems downloading the pdf, please contact me. Melodic Minor Scale Jazz Studies Introduction Chapter-pdf

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If you’d like to gain more of an idea about the concept, format, benefits and practice guidelines found in the book, click the link below for a pdf copy of the INTRODUCTION CHAPTER: Melodic Minor Scales Jazz Studies sample-midi Melodic Minor Scale Jazz Studies sample-pdf I’ve also made available (for free) 7 different downloadable backing tracks (C instruments, Bb instruments and Eb instruments) for you to practice with the book click here.Ĭlick the links below for a pdf SAMPLE PAGE from the book, and for a midi sound file of the page for you to listen to:

Increase your technique and fluency as an improviser.

Find entirely new ways to approach the ii7-V7-I chord progression.

Gain experience with various harmonic applications in modern jazz, such as triad pairs, augmented scales, and altered pentatonic scales.

Broaden your understanding of harmonic relationships and tonal contrasts.

Practice and internalize every voice leading resolution possibility from dominant to tonic with each scale.

Develop a comprehensive mastery of the melodic minor scale and all its tonal colors.

This is an extensive, methodical investigation into this concept, with nearly 200 pages of notated practical exercises, as well as clearly written instruction. By doing so you can open up many melodic movement possibilities. The approach is to conceive of and use each scale as upper partial harmony relative to the dominant chord.

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In this book you’ll learn how to draw on material from 5 different melodic minor scales for each dominant seventh chord, and how to resolve them to tonic. Perhaps one of the must useful scales in jazz improvisation, the ascending melodic minor is rich in color, contour and melodic possibilities.

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Downloadable in pdf format, 203 pages, plus 7 mp3 backing tracks. – Mick O’Donnell, violinist, Sydney, Australiaįor all treble clef instruments. Now when improvising, I tend to explore harmony in a much more creative and engaging way, rather than relying on licks and muscle memory.” “Plake’s Melodic Minor Scale Jazz Studies has opened up my fiddle playing to a whole new array of tonal colours.

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– Günter Schelberger, professional saxophonist and conservatory woodwinds instructor, Waidhofen, Austria If you want to really grow as an improviser by learning how to create tension and release through melodic movement, start working from this book.” But getting deeper into improvised music, I must say that Bill Plake’s melodic minor book, in my opinion, makes the most sense as a tool to develop one’s own melodic capabilities without thinking too much about which tone (or tensions) to use on which scale or chord. I am not a beginning improviser, and besides knowing jazz theory, I have also worked through several other good books (Patterns for Jazz by Jerry Coker, Hip Licks by Greg Fishman, Oliver Nelson’s book and some more). During this time I’ve noticed that my improvisational melodic repertoire has significantly increased. Mark Dover, clarinetist, Imani Winds “I have been working with Melodic Minor Scale Jazz Studies for the last 5 months. To be able to take this foundation and use it as a basis for improvisation is exciting and eye opening! Looking forward to spending more time with it!” Having come from a strict classical background, it makes learning new language based on these scales more familiar and recognizable, in that I spent much time in my early years practicing the melodic minor scales. Bill presents his material in a way that is approachable, concise, yet extremely thorough. The concept of using 5 different melodic minor scales as a medium for developing improvisational language with different levels and colors of tonal contrasts is ingenious. “Having studied Bill Plake’s Melodic Minor Scale Jazz Studies for the past year, I find it extremely helpful in terms of increasing my melodic language over Dominant 7th chords.

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