The Blues Scales

This ground-breaking book will show you (or your students) how to use the major and minor blues scales to improvise meaningful solos without having to first master all the scales and chords of a tune. Essential for beginners, perfect for intermediate students, and even useful for professional players to hone their skills on this crucial and often neglected part of the jazz language. The online audio by author Dan Greenblatt and his quartet of swinging, New York jazz musicians shows how each exercise should sound and it also gives the student numerous play-along tracks to practice with. Includes great transcriptions from Miles, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Oscar Peterson, Dave Sanborn, Michael Brecker and many more, showing how the Blues Scales are actually used in various styles of jazz. Includes: step-by-step exercises to get beginning students able to quickly solo using the two basic Blues Scales; extensive dictionary of classic major and minor Blues Scale phrases; help with transposing the ideas learned into other keys; appendices for advanced players showing how the masters of jazz use the Blues Scales in their own playing. Available in C, Bb, Eb and Guitar versions.