New Year’s Sale on Bach Shapes and Brubeck Octet Project
My whole online store is on sale for the month of January with code SALE25. This would be a great time to pick up an LP or Bach Shapes book.
More on Bach Shapes II, the most comprehensive book in the series:
BACH SHAPES II is the sequel to Bach Shapes, the immensely successful scale and
interval pattern book for all instruments. In BACH SHAPES II you’ll find 144 pages
(twice the size of Bach Shapes!) of all things Bach, a culmination of 5 years of work by
NYC jazz saxophonist and Bach enthusiast Jon De Lucia that includes:
■ 50 pages of diatonic sequences, now with analysis, articulation suggestions and
scale variations (harmonic minor, harmonic major, etc)
■ A chapter on minor and diminished shapes, bringing Bach’s Toccata and Fugue into
the Bebop Era with examples from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and more.
■ 20 pages on the Circle of Fifths progression, applying Bach Shapes to chord
progressions like “All The Things You Are” and “Autumn Leaves,” including MIDI
chordal accompaniment for the exercises and live band recordings for the etudes.
■ A chapter on Paul Desmond, including etudes and a solo transcription.
■ A chapter on arpeggiation, using Bach’s methods to get through standard tunes.
■ Etudes! More lines on jazz standards to help internalize the material.
The ear is key, and Bach’s melodies teach us how to voice lead through chords better
than anything else, so what could be more applicable to us as jazz improvisers?
This book will teach you to:
▶ Learn to pre-hear intervals, which will help you learn to play what you are hearing
faster than any other approach.
▶ Improve your pitch. Practice the diatonic shapes with any drone found on Youtube.
▶ Improve your technique.
▶ Increase your vocabulary of melodic shapes, usable in so many situations!
▶ NEW: Get detailed steps to actually applying the shapes to your improvising,
along with jazz etudes to guide you.
BACH SHAPES II, along with Bach Shapes and The Etudes books, form a com prehen
sive reference library of Bach’s melodic sensibilities. Visit bachshapes.com to
access the Bach Shapes Resource Library, which includes video tutorials, free pdf’s,
workshop recordings and more.
