Steven Mooney Libri

Focusing on developing a comprehensive jazz bass vocabulary, this book provides a structured approach to understanding harmonic structures essential for jazz standards and bebop styles. It includes 333 MP3 backing tracks and written bass lines across all 12 keys, facilitating stepwise learning. Key concepts such as II V I progressions, voice leading, and tritone substitutions are thoroughly explored, allowing bassists to enhance their technical skills and musicality. This resource is vital for aspiring jazz bassists looking to deepen their understanding and performance abilities.

Exploring the foundations of jazz improvisation, this book focuses on the concept of rhythm changes in various keys. It offers musicians a structured approach to understanding harmonic progressions and developing their improvisational skills. Through practical exercises and musical examples, readers can enhance their creativity and adaptability in performance. Ideal for both aspiring and experienced musicians, it serves as a valuable resource for deepening one's grasp of jazz theory and practice.

Rhythm Changes like the " Blues " is an essential part of the Jazz musicians vocabulary. Book II in the " Jazz Guitar Workshop Walking Jazz Bass Lines " series Rhythm Changes in 12 Keys provides various insights into how the Rhythm Changes song form may be approached by the Jazz guitarist. Part I outlines the Rhythm Changes form and provides examples of how to construct walking jazz bass lines using voice leading, chromatic passing tones, pedal points, tri-tone substitutions, and harmonic anticipation. Part II provides an in-depth look at the Rhythm Changes A sections and shows the common chord substitutions used by the bebop musicians when improvising. Part III provides an in-depth look at the Bridge or B section providing various chord substitutions used when improvising and walking bass lines. Part IV outlines Rhythm Changes in 12 keys using all the previous lesson topics and bass line examples outlined in the book. Suitable for the beginning to advanced guitarist.

Jazz Guitar Workshop - Walking Bass Lines - The Blues in 12 Keys The Blues in 12 Keys is a complete guide for the jazz guitarist demonstrating the devices used to play walking bass lines and chords in solo or accompaniment settings. Including Drop 2 chord voicings, 3 note voicings, Chord inversions, Chromatic approach notes, Voice leading, Triads, 7 th chords, Harmonic anticipation, Pedal points, Turnarounds, Tri tone substitution, Bebop blues progression. Part 1 Demonstrates the various techniques used to provide forward motion into bass lines and outlines comping patterns to build a fluid walking bass style for all musical situations. The exercises build in a stepwise progression and are designed to give the guitarist a solid foundation in the walking bass style incorporating 3 note voicings as well as drop 2 voicings. Part 2 expands on the lessons and techniques used in Part 1 providing the guitarist with 60 choruses of examples written out in all 12 keys covering the Jazz & Bebop blues progressions.

In the sound bite era syllabic servitude is the order of the day but morpheme addiction flies below theradar of speech pathologists but not Phono-morph specialists like Randal Poe, dedicated to treating the tics of the itty-bitty utterance until he meets his match in Claudia Roget, a trans-gendered lexicologist who for four-hundred years has hunted her uncle who she insists will destroy the world by stealing lexemes from the Time continuum.She’s crazy of course, but love too is a form of madness and Randal cannot abide without her, so they prowl the Boroughs of Manhattan and also through the Whorls of Time, or are these sequences the subconscious rationale for eerie events of time and place that spiral toward a vortex of history redefined? When the hunters become the hunted and things are not what they seem, the only thing that can save them is their love and their love of language in Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict.

Randal Poe's eviction by his dysfunctional family propels the history buff and nascent journalist toward a hapless criminal act that unleashes sibling rivalry, animal rights activism, corporate greed, unethical behavior, class conflict, blind patriotism, and grudges bent on revenge from a host of characters in the capital, coastal plain, and the Appalachians of North Carolina. Through gun store owner and Civil War reenactor Elmer Butkins, Randal sells a storied heirloom to collector L.D. McKee and a mockup of the blade to McKee's half-brother, a museum curator. Columnist Tarleton Ramseur takes an interest and mentors Randal as a cub reporter. A battle reenactment interview leads to Randal's involvement with the rag-tag militia defenders of the new Republic of 1/10 of Peedee County, recently seceded from the union, and with a hog farm on the brink of insolvency that seeks asylum for refugee swine. In addition to his irate father and disconsolate mother, Randal draws these actors toward a denouement in dire pandemonium in Cutlass Wonders, a comic novel about coming of age the hard way.

At a writers’ awards ceremony an impromptu interview by Randal Poe exposes a reclusive national celebrity, although for Randal fame is diminished by love at first poet Button Springfield hails from the same Appalachian crossroads where Delray Mabler has lived since his exit from the limelight. But in lusting after Button, Randal loses his notes and Mabler is found out. She offers him refuge on commune land owned by her parents who also rent a ridge top to a cult of stargazers whose agenda proposes a lunar rendezvous.Into this picture steps Baptist minister, August Tarbush, and FBI agent, Jack Riggs, whose cover as a real estate developer has aligned the two against the commune, but cult leader Argon Kirkcops is also under suspicion; one among those free spirits is the 60s radical bomber and cold case fugitive, Al Bannister.To reinvent oneself takes daring-do, perseverance, or outright lunacy, but it can unravel in a heartbeat. In the antics of The Ageless of Aquarius, few are who they claim to be and allegiance, and love too, is fickle.

Focusing on the fundamentals of jazz bass, this book provides a comprehensive guide to constructing walking bass lines. It covers essential techniques and concepts, including rhythmic patterns, chord progressions, and melodic development. Through practical exercises and examples, readers will learn how to create effective and dynamic bass lines that enhance their jazz performances. Ideal for both beginners and experienced musicians, it emphasizes creativity and improvisation within the jazz genre.