Noppe Alex. Jazz Improvisation 4. Practicing Jazz

Performing Arts Institute, 2009. — 47 p.How to Practice Jazz (in four simple steps).
Technical Work.
Major, Mixolydian, Dorian.
Locrian, Phrygian, Aeolian.
Lydian, Melodic Minor, Locrian #2.
Lydian-Dominant, Lydian-Augmented, Diminished Whole-Tone.
Diminished (HW), Diminished (WH), Whole-Tone.
Harmonic Minor, Augmented, Blues.
Practicing Scales and Chordal Patterns.
Modifying Scales and Chordal Patterns.
The Bebop Scale.
David Baker “Generic Patterns”.
Use of Diminished and Whole-Tone Scales.
Phrasing Games (Out of Nowhere).
Melody.
Two-measure phrase games.
Advanced phrase games.
Guide-Tone Games (Indiana).
Melody.
Guide tones (3rds).
Guide tones (7ths).
Advanced game using 3rds, 7ths, and 9ths.
Resolutions game.
Alteration Games (All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm).
Melody.
Simplification to dominant chords.
Diminished scale game.
Whole-Tone scale game.
Lydian-dominant scale game.
Diminished whole-tone scale & triad pairs game.
Perpetual Motion Games (How High The Moon).
Melody.
Half and quarter notes game.
Eighth notes and triplets game.
Motive Games (On Green Dolphin Street).
Melody.
Motives from the melody game.
Sequences and rhythmic displacement game.
Development of the Blues.
Blue Seven, Tenor Madness, Now’s The Time.
Blues in the Closet, Walkin’, Au Privave.
Blue Monk, The Blues Walk, Straight, No Chaser.
Bags’ Groove, Sandu, Billie’s Bounce.
Buzzy, Birdlike, Blues for Alice.
Rhythm Changes and Variations.
I Got Rhythm.
Moose the Mooch.
Dexterity.
Anthropology.
Oleo.