The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps: Visual Tools for Musicians, #3
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Ready for a great leap forward in applying theory to your musical practice? Discover techniques to help bring your visual memory into play.
Have you suffered from traditional teaching approaches relying solely on aural memory? Do your ears let you down when it comes to naming a chord? With over twenty years' experience, Philip Jackson brings his teaching ability to provide you with the tools you can employ to harness the power of your visual memory. In an easy-to-follow companion series of workbooks, he links the tools to the theory in an easily visualized manner and follows that with practical exercises to help you embed the techniques and gain confidence in your mastery.
The Workbook: Volume 2 – Further Steps is the third book in his Visual Tools for Musicians series and is an accessible and straightforward accompanying guide designed to solidify key concepts from Chapters 8, 9 10 and 11 (Major Scales) of Jackson's best-seller, The Circle of Fifths: visual tools for musicians. Paralleling the tone of the parent volume, Jackson encourages diving in and developing skills with exercises and additional tutelage. And by following his practical solutions to common pitfalls, you'll soon gain clarity and approach your new passion fearlessly.
In The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps, you'll discover:
Sixty-four exercises to convert fledgling know-how into deeply understood notions
Hands-on training to grasp chord progressions through a visual medium for maximum ease of recall and maximum stress reduction during your playing
A pathway toward exhilarating improvisation, so you can expand your musicianship by familiarization with the whole tone scale, the diminished scale and many others
How to visualize substitutions in order to enrich the harmonic content of your improvisation
How to avoid melodic dissonance by mastering the choice of inside pentatonic scales, the harmonization of the major scale and much, much more!
The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps is the ideal interactive tool for hitting all the right notes. If you like concrete examples, learning through applying principles, and exciting alternative teaching methods, then you'll love Philip Jackson's finely tuned workbook.
Buy The Workbook: Volume 2 – Further Steps to make sound progress today!
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The Workbook - Philip Jackson
The Workbook
for
The Circle of Fifths:
visual tools for musicians
Volume 2
Substitute dominants, progressions, major harmony
Philip Jackson
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1
Introduction
8 – Substitute Dominants
9 – Chord Progressions
10 – Whole Tone and other scales
11 – Chord scales – Major scale
Part 2 - Answers
8 – Substitute Dominants – answers
9 – Chord Progressions – answers
10 – Whole Tone and other scales - answers
11 – Chord scales – Major scale – answers
Your next step
Resources
Other Books
The Visual Tools Series
Notes on Music Theory Series
also available in French
Thank you
One last thing
Copyright
Preface
While working with young musicians, young in both the sense of experience as well as age, I quickly saw the help that could be made in their progress if we used their visual memory as well as their aural memory. I published The Circle of Fifths : visual tools for musicians and this has proved to be a very useful addition to teaching materials. I have used these tools for teaching classes on music theory and in practical sessions with improvising musicians. The handouts I made for practice have also evolved with time and these proved very popular as well as useful.
Practical teaching experience showed that students could benefit from further examples to help them practice and acquire the habits necessary to enhance their visual memory. This was confirmed by requests from the students themselves. Thus, it came about that I decided a workbook companion to The Circle of Fifths would probably fit the bill most appropriately.
Once I was well into the preparation of the exercises, it became clear that the work was too extensive to go into a single workbook. I didn’t want the resulting workbook to become a doorstop but I didn’t want to cut the exercises short. The result was that the workbook appears in three volumes. This second Volume covers chapters 8, 9, 10 and that part of 11 dealing with the major scale in The Circle of Fifths, and follows the same chapter numbering.
Volume 1, Early Steps, provides practical work covering chapters 1 through 7 of The Circle of Fifths. Volume 3 treats the minor harmony aspects of chapter 11 as well as chapters 12 and 13, quartal harmony and transposing instruments.
Nothing stops musicians from playing, composing and listening to music without the slightest knowledge of the theory behind that music. In fact, such theory as exists should not be taken as rules so rigid that if broken the universe will crumble. At best, theory only codifies the accepted practice of the period in which it is written and it has never ceased to evolve.
My firm belief is that progress arrives from understanding and that education is the way to improve understanding. The present volume is the result of years’ of experience with students and has proved helpful in speeding up their endeavors to improve their practical approach to music. I hope that you too will find it of assistance.
I welcome readers’ comments and suggestions which may be addressed to me by email at:
support@le-theron.com
Philip Jackson, 2024
PART 1
Exercises
Volume 2
Introduction
I have followed essentially the same layout, order and treatment of the different uses of the circle and readers of The Circle of Fifths should be able to follow and practice these uses as they proceed chapter by chapter.
This volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 provides the exercises and Part 2 provides the answers. In Part 2, I have provided some additional discussion where I felt it could be useful to enhance understanding. One of the best aides to enhancing your visual memory will be to follow the discussion details closely on the circle diagram associated with each answer. This will help imprint the patterns especially of chords and progressions and will speed up your work with visualization.
Please note that the numbering of the Exercises follows the numbering of the chapters concerned in The Circle of Fifths. Thus, you should find it easier to reference the material covered by the Exercises.
The resources section has a link to some additional material which can be downloaded if you wish.
Conventions regarding chords
I have maintained the conventions used in The Circle of Fifths and these are shown below.
Triads with perfect fifths
The perfect major triad will be represented simply by the letter name