The II-V7-I Progression: The Most Important Musical Sequence in Jazz, Vol. 3 (CD included) (Jazz Play-A-Long for All Musicians, Vol 3) Paperback – June 27, 2000

All of Jamey books are about the same. The II-V7-I Progression: The Most Important Musical Sequence in Jazz, Vol. 3 (CD included) (Jazz Play-A-Long for All Musicians, Vol 3)This one as several other titles for example: Major and Minor: Learn To Improvise Jazz in Every Key, Vol. 24 (book with 2 CDs) is another title. You go through all keys. Very good book to learn your notes also. I good idea would be to start off practicing slowly at first, then gradually increase your speed as your note recognition increases II-V7-I (251) was recommended by a fellow musician and certified College Graduate Music School Teacher. I also, fully recommend this monograph. In my opinion it's the only scales book you really need for jazz in particular. It covers the entire key range. Most importantly, all of the notes are right there together. Beginners don't have to skip notes while they're learning. This is the way we learned how to play instruments in elementary school.One more title to add: Mel Bay Deluxe Encyclopedia of Piano Chords: A Complete Study of Chords and How to Use Them Paperback – May 6, 2015by Bob KroepelThis book was originally written in 1976. An oldie but goodie. This title should get you up and going. My #1 Piano Practice Book! Over the years a lot of guitar players have told me that they learned how to play Guitar from a Mel Bay Guitar book. It speaks volumes! This is one of the better and simpler books to lean piano music by. Why? You get to practice beautifully crafted chords from the beginning. This leads to playing even more beautifully crafted music once you start memorizing the chords. It took a while to find this one! The key: Play and memorize only 3-6 chords at a time. The key is to play them so often that you can easily memorize whole pages eventually. Just practice s-l-o-w-l-y while first learning. Play one chord twelve times, then move to the next chord. Play it twelve times. Go to the next chord and play it twelve times. Then go back to the first set of chords and play it twelve times. Make sure you can play these 3 chords by memory before moving on the the next 3 chords. After you have these 3 chords under your fingers and memorized, go to the next 3 chords and practice them the same way. Pretty soon you be able to go through one page easily. Then another page, then another. Pretty soon you'll be able to play the entire book without paying much attention to the written notes on the page. That's about the time you'll learn and recognize you have perfect pitch. Well, almost! Just keep learning those 3 notes at a time. Pretty soon you'll start sounding like Léopold...[Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]. Yes, that's the simple way of how learning to play the piano works! I'm in your corner! If you use this method you should be playing within a fairly short period of time. How long? I've known people who practiced all day for 2 weeks and learned Guitar or Piano. That's not the norm or recommended. 1-2 hours per day, 5 days per week, relative pitch should happen within 3 months, but even that timeline could vary. Why? Once the average person recognize their getting better they increase their practice time, because their excited and jazzed and happy that things are finally coming together. So these types of students learn quickly, on average. I'm just saying, all students do not possess that joie de vivre, that passion, that zeal to learn. So, some students take longer. You know the beauty in all? Everyone who is consistently practice, eventually cross the threshold and create and play music at a higher level than they normally could have or would have :-) You know what? After all the stress commotion, anxiety, fear of failure, worries, apprehension, consternation, after all is said and done, you rarely can tell who was the bad student and who was the good one. Go figure?Which to practice scales or chords? Chords! You can play more chords in 1 minute than you can scales. When you play scales, you should, at first practice them slowly and deliberately in order for the mind to fully understand and comprehend what it's memorizing and learning. Chords? You can bang out 30-40 chords a minute and it mentally sinks into the brain quicker. Although I'm not a psychologist, it makes common sense to me. <-And I'll just leave that topic and further discussions right there where it'll sit!Tell you what! I'll compromise with you. Listen to the included CD's. If you don't do anything else, listen to the CD's for at least 1 hour or more per day. On average you'll be able to play what you're listening to within the year! How's that? Google one of the main functions of the: Corpus callosum section of our brain. This is why anyone can learn and play any instrument at a high level!The ball is in your court now! Good luck!Mentally sing with me:This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shineThis little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shineThis little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shineLet it shine, shine, shine...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boy, that was a lot of blab, blab = :-\Here's an idea. Write your 2-5-1's on one of those books with the blank piano keys. It makes practice much easier. Takes a little time to copy it, just put dots on the notes (white and black keys) and have at it! Practice sessions will progress faster and nary a headache figuring out lines and dots, sharps and flats etc. Hope this helps. Good luck and God speed fellow solo sojourners =-}

Don't be fooled by the title, which I know can be a bit intimidating to musicians who are new to the world of jazz improvisation. This book is an excellent method for jazz improv newbies and experienced pros alike. As a professional musician and private instructor for over 3 decades I have made use of the II-V7-I Progression both as a young student and as a private teacher, and in both cases it has proven invaluable to me. If you know how to play a C scale on your instrument, you can make use of this book/CD set right away. It is also a great way to teach yourself how to improvise in all 12 keys starting with the basic patterns Jamey provides. When I first started using this as a student it was only available as an LP. After recently recommending it to one of my jazz improv students I decided to go ahead and buy it again after I saw how much new material was in it compared to what it used to be. I was thrilled to see how over the years Jamey Aebersold has expanded it and improved it. I was especially happy to discover that new 2nd CD allows the musician to play over one key for awhile, making it easier to get comfortable in that key and apply the treasure trove of patterns Jamey includes (the patterns are all written in the key of C). This volume explains and slowly steps you through the basics of how to play over the II-V7-I pattern (probably the most common chord progression in jazz standards--they exist everywhere!) starting with simple quarter and half note patterns using only notes in the C scale, then it progresses to 8th notes, then it continues to progress to newer, more advanced scales such as the chromatic, bebop, diminished, whole tone, and diminished whole tone scales. You do need to be patient and not try to rush through it to the more advanced material if you really don't have a grip on the basics of playing comfortably over all 12 keys (if you're not willing to put in the needed practice time this isn't the book for you). If you get volume 3, take your time and go through it slowly and thoroughly before moving on to the more complex patterns. This isn't really meant as a *become-a-master-improviser-in-just-10-minutes-quick-start-method*, it's meant more as a long term study who's benefits you will continue to reap as long as you continue playing jazz. What you learn from it can be applied to many thousands upon thousands of jazz standards. I still use it as a warmup workout, or for when I want to work on a 2nd instrument where my chops aren't all there. Honestly I can't praise it highly enough. This volume has helped shape my playing and has been a sort of *jazz bible* for me. I think anyone who wants to take the time to work through it and learn it with practice and patience will be amply rewarded with the musical dividends that will certainly follow.

Book looks new

The book is exactly as advertised.

Good to revisit as I am. If you haven’t started the journey through ii-v-i’s, a must to have in your library.

This is an educational book, for music students. It is an important reference in jazz studies

Does not include any CDs. Not sure if the promised 2 CDs of music can be downloaded. If you expected actual CDs, like I did, it doesnt seem to include any.

This is a must have book for anyone serious about jazz improvisation. I have used it teaching high school & college jazz improvisation courses and still work in this book to continue to sharpen my own improvisation skills.