From the back of the book:
“The conclusion to this power-packed jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings, modal soloing, substitution, reharmonization, modes of the minor scales, diminsihed and whole tone scales, walking bass, stride piano technique, non-diatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music, this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist’s jouney into jazz.”
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – Review
Topics Include: Modes of the Major Scale; Extended and Altered Chords; Substitution; Making the Changes
Chapter 2 – Modal Playing and 4th Voicings
Topics Include: 4th Voicings; So What Voicings; Parallel Voicings; Modal Soloing; Lyricism and Pacing; Using Chords in a Solo; Side-slipping and Resolving
Chapter 3 – Advanced Substitution and Reharmonization
Topics Include: Cycles; Advanced Rhythm Changes Substitutions; Coltrane Changes and other Matrices; Putting Substitutions to Work
Chapter 4 – New Scales
Topics Include: Jazz Melodic Minor Scale and its Modes; Symmetrical Scales: Diminished and Whole Tone; Modes of the Harmonic Minor; Lydian Diminished Scale and its Modes
Chapter 5 – Triads and Pentatonic Scales Revisited
Topics Include: Triads Revisited; Upper Structures; Bi-Tonal Triads; Pentatonic Scales Revisited; Using Multiple Pentatonics in Modal Playing; Using Outside Pentatonics in Modal Playing
Chapter 6 – Solo Playing
Topics Include: Approaches to Solo Playing; Walking Bass; Stride; Leaving Space; Ballads; Interpreting a Ballad Melody
Chapter 7 – Building Intensity
Topics Include: Octaves; Block Chords; Hemiola and Rhythmic Displacement; Clusters; Ways of Playing on Non-Diatonic Changes
Chapter 8 – Afterword
Topics Include: Playing With Excellent Musicians; Playing With Poor Musicians; Playing Different Styles; Odd Time Signatures; Fast Tempos; Learning on the Bandstand and the Importance of Growth; Suggested Listening