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Developing The Vocabulary With Pentatonics And Fourths (2020)

Elias Lapia
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Name: Elias Lapia Main Subject: Jazz Saxophone Supervisor: Jarmo Hoogendijk Research Question: How Can I Implement Fourths And Pentatonic Language In My Vocabulary? This research describes the work I did from september 2018 to february 2020 in relation to the fourths and pentatonic field and their implementation in my vocaboulary. The research starts describing how I started working on several patterns taken from the book Patterns From Jazz (J. Casale, G.Green, J. Cooker, J Campbell) in all keys and how I tried to make them appear in my language, providing video examples were I approach standards forcing myself to make them appear while soloing. The next chapter treats about pentatonics and here instead I show some possibilities taken from the Jerry Bergonzi's book Inside Improvisation Series Vol.2 – Pentatonics (Advance Music, 1993) and the Ramon Ricker's classic Pentatonic Scales For Jazz Improvisation, analyzing them and describing how I digested the material during time, listing also some possible applications and techniques like the polypentatonic one ; I also made another related chapter called Other Possible Hints Of Practice Through XX Century Composers And Jazz Soloist in which I analyse some parts of scores and transcriptions of well know composers and soloists of the past century like Zoltan Kodaly, Woody Shaw and John Coltrane, who made clear examples of how to use in music a specific and complex material like this one. The last « practice » chapter instead relates to perfect fourths and here I list some patterns that I took from the Teus Nobel research Preserving The Fire – Implementing The Language Of Woody Shaw (Codards Master Of Music) and I give more transcriptions examples taken from records or masterclasses. Finally the conclusions will have comments on the final outcome of the process. Bio : Elias Lapia was born in Nuoro (IT) the 07/11/1995. He began the study of the saxophone at age 12 and the study of Jazz at Nuoro Jazz Clinics the year after. He started his academic studies in 2015 at the Conservatoire de Paris and after the bachelor he moved in the Hague to study with John Ruocco at Koninklijk Conservatorium van Den Haag. He played in many renowed International Festivals and in 2019 won the 1st prize at Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani and recorded his first album The Acid Sound.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsCreative Practice, Pentatonic, Relative Fourths, improvisation
date22/02/2020
published20/08/2020
last modified20/08/2020
statuslimited publication
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/542143/729396
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