HOW TO IMPROVISE AN APPROACH TO PRACTICING IMPROVISATION BY HAL CROOKTable of Contents Prerequisites, Preface Introduction Section I * PACING * SONG MELODY * PHRASE LENGTHS * RHYTHMIC DENSITY * TIME FEEL * MELODIC AND RHYTHMIC EMBELLISHMENT NON-HARMONIC MELODY NOTES MELODIC MOTION AT CHORD CHANGE GUIDE-TONES (GUIDE-TONE LINES, EMBELLISHING GUIDE-TONE LINES CHORD SCALES Section Il * STRETCHING THE TIME * DYNAMICS ** ARTICULATION. Scere + SCALE PATTERNS, LOWER STRUCTURE TRIADS ‘CHORD TONE SOLOING + MOTIF SOLOING ~ MOTIF DEVELOPMENT Section ill “+ RHYTHMIC DISPLACEMENT... ** AUGMENTATIONDIMINUTION * UPPER STRUCTURE TRIADS + PENTATONIC SCALES. CHORD SCALES WITH NON-HARMONIC TONES * RHYTHMIC VALUES * SYNCOPATION “INSTRUMENT REGISTERS www.zapil.ucoz.ru ” 23 23 2 34 37 43 48, 50 53 61 63 65 67 n 78 81 95 101 105 108 va ng 128 128i I Section IV I + OVER-THE-BARCINE PHRASING 131 CONTRACTING CHORO DURATION 13 I * EXPANDING CHORD DURATION “ 136 MELODIC RANGE 138 I ** DOUBLE TIME 140 + HALFTIME vai I * PEAK POINTS 13 * soLo LENGTHS as I Section V * NON-HARMONIC TIADS var I + tRiRo couPUNGS ist + NON-HARMONIC PENTATONIC SCALES 155 I + NON-WARMONIC MAJOR SCALES 158 ~ NON-HARMONIC SYMMETRICAL SCALES 159 I CHROMATIC SCALE 163 = TaTONE scaLes 170 I + TETRATONIC SCALES. 176 I iuoex 183 ‘ABOUT THE AUTHOR a 185 I ’ I nnpoant spel ec ethan fundamental mporant othe sty morovsng, PREREQUISITES workable knowledge of scales, chords, chord progressions, sight readi vocabulary (i e. rhythms, melodies and harmonies) of early improvisational styles such as bebop, swing, Dixieland, blues, orrhythm andbiues et.,ishelpful to derive the maximum benefit rom this book, especialy fits study is unsupervised 1, and a familiarity with the musical _=_ ae