THE SERIOUS JAZZ PRACTICE BOOK provides a unique and comprehensive plan for mastering these basic building blocks of jazz, on any instrument.

- It takes all the diatonic, pentatonic, chromatic, whole-tone and diminished scales and gives you step-by-step exercises that dissect them into hundreds of useable patterns.
- The same is also done for all the chord types and intervals inherent in each scale.
- Many of the exercises are embellished with chromatic notes, giving them that jazz flavor right away.
- The companion CD has Barry demonstrating how to use the exercises to create great solos.
- The end result is a method book that will lead the reader to a deep, internalized understanding of the fundamentals of jazz.