Modern Harmony Method, Fundamentals of Jazz and Popular Harmony. Michael Griffin

MODERN HARMONY METHOD - FUNDAMENTALS OF JAZZ AND POPULAR HARMONY BY MICHAEL GRIFFIN

This clear and well organised text is suitable for students of arrangign and composition, and for classically trained musicians wishing to learn the beautiful yet simple logic of jazz an dpolular harmony.

You will learn how to select and voice chords, and how to use ' circle of fourth' progressions, extensions, suspensions and alternations.

Essential understandings: - Triad structures and inversions - How to select chords; chord symbols - Simple but effective voicing formulae - The circle of 4th progressions, - Extensions to the 9ths and dominant 13ths, and altered 5ths and 9ths.

Included in the 116 pages are comprehensive explanations, examples, exercises and solutions