EDC Publications Books - Emile and Laura De Cosmo

The Diatonic Cycle

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Price: $16.95

Renowned jazz educators Emile and Laura De Cosmo provide more than 300 exercises to help improvisors tackle one of music's most common progressions: the diatonic cycle. This book is guaranteed to refine technique, enhance improvisational fluency, and improve sight-reading!

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The Cycle Of Fifths

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Price: $14.95

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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The Path to Jazz Improvisation

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This Fascinating jazz instruction book for all instrumentalists offers an innovative, scholarly approach to the art of improvisation. It includes all the lessons of the whole Polytonal Rhythm Series. Which includes the: Cycle of Fifths; Diatonic Cycle; The Blues Scale; Harmonic Minor Scale; Melodic Minor Scale; Ionian Mode; Dorian Mode; Byzantine Scale; Arabian Scale and much more, including Emile's Polytonal Order of Keys(P.O.O.K.)! A must for all musicians who want to hone their improv chops.

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Woodshedding Source Books

Sample Pages with Audio:

1) The Ionian Mode
2) The Cycle of Fifths
3) The Tritone Cycle

C Treble Clef Instruments $19.95	Eb Instruments $19.95	Bb Instruments $19.95	C Bass Clef Instruments $19.95

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These book/CD packs present a proven approach to practicing and are, in essence, woodshedding in book form. Rehearsing with this method daily will improve technique, reading, ability, rhythmic and harmonic vocabulary, eye/finger coordination, endurance, range, theoretical knowledge, and listening skills - all of which lead to superior improvisational skills. The CD provides full rhythm section and harmonic background for all 66 exercises.

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Polytonal Rhythm Series

	More Information	Note: If you purchase The Path to Jazz Improvisation book you will find detailed explainations of theory and history for each one of the Polytonal Rhythm Series books listed below.
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BOOK	PRICE
THE DIATONIC CYCLE: The 24 dialects of the musical language.	$16.95
THE CYCLE OF FIFTHS: Discover the natural gravIty of music.	$14.95
THE BLUES SCALE: The basis for playing funky jazz lines.	$7.95
THE "NEW" II7 V7 PROGRESSION: Most important progression in music.	$7.95
THE BYZANTINE SCALE: Oriental and East Indian sounds.	$7.95
THE HARMONIC MINOR SCALE: Polytonal approach to this minor scale.	$7.95
THE AEOLIAN MODE: Modal sounds of the sub-mediant.	$7.95
THE DIMINISHED SCALE: Modern altered now sounds of jazz.	$7.95
THE IONIAN MODE: Polytonal approach to the major scale.	$7.95
THE TRITONE CYCLE: Flatted fifth substitution of I7 VI7 II7 V7.	$7.95
THE DORIAN MODE: Popular modal sounds of todays music.	$7.95
THE AUGMENTED 11TH SCALE: Sounds of the upper partials of the V7.	$7.95
THE LYDIAN MODE: Unusual modality of the sub-dominant.	$7.95
THE POLYTONAL GUITAR: Dialects of the diatonic cycle for guitar.	$6.50
THE MIXOLYDIAN MODE: Linear modes of the cycle of fifths.	$7.95
THE ARABIAN SCALE: Sounds of the Middle East.	$7.95
THE LOCRIAN MODE: Most important new mode of the future.	$7.95
THE MELODIC MINOR SCALE: Polytonal approach to this minor scale.	$7.95
THE PHRYGIAN MODE: Sound of the Raga Hanamat Todi.	$7.95