COUNTERPOINT IN JAZZ ARRANGING

Softcover Book with Online Audio Access

Series: Berklee Guide
Publisher: Berklee Press
Format: Softcover with Online Audio Access
Author: Bob Pilkington

Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, countermelodies, bass lines, and grooves. It will help you manage the intricacies of interactive lines, control dissonance, and improve melodic development.

Carefully guided exercises let you practice exploring and controlling contrapuntal relationships. The accompanying recordings demonstrate techniques in typical jazz arrangements. Audio tracks feature a live jazz ensemble of veteran Berklee faculty members, illustrating the counterpoint examples so that you can hear them applied in a realistic musical context.

Item #: 000294301
UPC: 888680941048
MPN or ISBN: 9780876392041
Size: 12"  x  9"
Pages: 152
Stock #: HL00294301