The Cycle of Fifths: Essential Exercises for All Jazz, Traditional and Contemporary Musicians
By Emile De Cosmo and Laura De Cosmo
The Cycle of Fifths: Essential Exercises for All Jazz, Traditional and Contemporary Musicians
By Emile De Cosmo and Laura De Cosmo
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(Jazz Instruction). This updated and expanded edition of the essential instruction book provides more than 450 exercises, including hundreds of melodic and rhythmic ideas. The book is designed to help improvisors master the cycle of fifths, one of the primary progressions in music. Guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!
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- (2/5)This could be a great daily exercise book but the notes on the music staff are blurry. The exercises are difficult to read. If the music was clear this book would get 4 or 5 stars.
FIX IT !!! - (5/5)
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When I first looked at the exercises I thought they are some of those boring chord scales we are always bombarded with in our schools, colleges, university studies. But after practising a few of these exercises something struck my mind that these are gems to thoroughly understood and nurtured because they open up the mind of a musician and show him/her all the possibilities of transforming and using these arpeggios in formulating their improvisations. As for me I have decided this is a goldmine of ideas played in all keys. The cycle of 4ths or 5ths will hereby be well understood, and even a novice, beginner in jazz, will gain valuable knowledge and fluency in all keys. Emile and Laura have done a good job and they have demystified the mystery of jazz improvisation Enkosi (Thanks)
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The content was good, but the formatting was bad especially for a e-book3 people found this helpful
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cant see a shit bad format for sheet reading you need to fix this2 people found this helpful