Description

Music Theory for the Improvising Musician is a comprehensive 50+ page book that practically presents music theory in a way to help you skillfully improvise on any instrument.  At the end of each chapter in the book, written assignments, keyboard assignments and vocal assignments are given to reinforce the student’s understanding of the material shared in the book. After going through the material in this book, the student will have:

• Learned to identify the names of all the keys on the piano.
• Learned how to construct the 12 major scales.
• Learned how to construct the twelve natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales.
• Learned how to name and recognize intervals which is essential to chord construction.
• Learned how to construct all triads and seventh chords on all twelve notes of the piano keyboard.
• Learned how to construct chords with extensions.
• Learned how to construct Altered Dominant Chords.
• Learned how chords function together to form progressions, and learn common chord progressions found in many songs.
• Learned jazz terminology and symbols used in jazz and contemporary music styles.
• Learned how to construct modal scales in every key useful when improvising.
• Learned how to construct popular scales used in jazz and contemporary music styles useful when improvising.