The Contemporary Jazz Pianist - Volume 1

Publisher: Charles Colin 
A Comprehensive Approach to Keyboard Improvisation by Bill Dobbins

This enormous 4-volume series is designed as a comprehensive method to help jazz pianists learn and refine their improvisation skills. The set covers topics including harmony, voicing, melody, rhythm, musical development, and various jazz styles, as well as providing transcribed solos for the students to study and imitate.

Contents:

• I. Diatonic Seventh Chords and Their Corresponding Modes
• II. Voicing the Five Basic Seventh Chord Types for the Left Hand
• III. Diatonic and Chromatic Embellishing Chords
• IV. Building a Chord Line for the Left Hand
• V. Basic Chord-Scale Relationships
• VI. Understanding Jazz Rhythm
• VII. Basic Principles of Accompaniment for the Left Hand
• VIII. Basic Principles of Harmonic Substitution
• IX. Diatonic Exercises
• X. Pentatonic Exercises
• XI. Diminished Exercises
• XII. Chromatic Exercises
• XIII. Melodic Embellishments
• XIV. Principles of Melodic Development
• XV. Special Effects
• XVI. Exercises for Beginning Improvisation
• XVII. Transcribed Solos
• XVIII. Tunes for Further Study
• Conclusion
• Appendices and Discography

• Bill Dobbins The Contemporary Jazz Pianist - Volume 1
• Bill Dobbins The Contemporary Jazz Pianist - Volume 2
• Bill Dobbins The Contemporary Jazz Pianist - Volume 3
• Bill Dobbins The Contemporary Jazz Pianist - Volume 4