Modal Harmony in the Art of Improvisation - Vol.1

Description

Mario Balestra was born in Castelfidardo (Italy). He studied at the Lanaro Music Academy in Rome and performed with many great jazz musicians.Finding a first quality tuition for jazz music is very hard. Mario Balestra worked for years on this 250+ pages manual, what nowadays is being considered as the ultimate preparation and education of the jazz musician.

Part 1 :

• Modal harmony approach,
• Modal scales and chords applied to improvisation,
• Modal substitutions.

Part 2 :

• Development of modal chords,
• Non-modal scales, diminished, blues, pentatonic and esatonal scales.
• Voicing in fourth, special effects, studying various forms of blues, rhythms, turn arounds & composition endings.

Part 3 :

• Unpublished compositions elaborated with modal harmony