IntermediateFluteJazzBlues

Exploring Jazz Flute, by Ollie Weston

Name: Exploring Jazz Flute, by Ollie Weston
Brand: MusicGurus
Author: Ollie Weston

Ollie Weston

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Modules209

Replay songs48

InstrumentFlute

LanguageEnglish

Contents (209 modules, 48 replay)

- 01. Introduction
- 02. Starting Out
- 03. What is Jazz?
- 04. Improvisation
- 05. The Flute in Jazz
- 06. Notation
- 07. Chapter Content
- 08. Sample Solos
- 09. Backing Tracks
- 10. Practice
- 01. 1: The Blues
- 02. The Blues
- 03. Leavin’ Town
- 04. Intervals
- 05. Tones and Semitones
- 06. The Blues Scale
- 07. Swing Quavers
- 08. Song Form
- 09. 12-Bar Blues
- 10. Head and Solos
- 11. The 12-Bar Blues Chord Sequence
- 12. Improvising
- 13. Sample Solo - Leavin’ Town
- 01. 2: The Major Seventh Chord
- 02. Building a triad
- 03. Chords and Passing Tones
- 04. Major seventh workout
- 05. The 12 Key Dilemma
- 06. Embellishing Simple Phrases
- 07. Major Pentatonic Scale
- 08. Pentatonics in all keys
- 09. Horn Section Playing
- 10. Using the Blues
- 11. Blue note resolution
- 12. Major 7th Heaven
- 13. Lead Sheets
- 01. 3: The Minor Seventh Chord
- 02. Major and Minor Keys
- 03. The Minor Seventh Chord
- 04. Minor Seventh Chord Passing Tones
- 05. Minor Scale Variations
- 06. Dorian Mode / Minor Seventh Chord Workout
- 07. Minor seventh chord lick
- 08. The Minor Pentatonic Scale
- 09. Relative Major / Minor
- 10. Minor Pentatonic patterns
- 11. Using the Blues Over Minor Sevenths
- 12. Triplets
- 13. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- 14. So Far, So Good
- 15. Passing Tones and Extensions
- 01. 4: The Seventh Chord
- 02. Creating a Seventh Chord
- 03. The Tritone Interval
- 04. The Mixolydian mode
- 05. Mixolydian workout
- 06. Minor chord types from the same root
- 07. Using a metronome
- 08. Beats 2 and 4
- 09. The seventh chord in the 12-bar blues
- 10. Thirds and sevenths of the 12-bar blues
- 11. The Major Vs. Minor triad in the Blues
- 12. Sonny’s Blues
- 13. Major and Minor triad
- 14. Developing a lick
- 01. 5: Putting It Together
- 02. Pearly White
- 03. Half-time feel
- 04. Pearly White - sample solo
- 05. Jazz / Funk
- 06. Down To It
- 07. Down To It - sample solo
- 01. 6: Modes Of The Major Scale
- 02. Diatonic and Chromatic
- 03. Modes of the Major Scale
- 04. The modes of B flat Major
- 05. Chord / Passing tones of B flat Major modes
- 06. Modal workout
- 07. Modes from a static root
- 08. Lydian line through a modal sequence
- 09. Use of modes in jazz and popular music
- 10. First Impression
- 01. 7: The II-V-I Progression
- 02. The perfect cadence
- 03. Tritone within a 7th chord
- 04. The cycle of fifths
- 05. Dominant seventh chords with the cycle if fifths
- 06. Rhythm changes bridge
- 07. The perfect cadence in jazz
- 08. II-V-I
- 09. II-V-I licks
- 10. Licks in all keys
- 11. Dancing With Duke - head
- 12. Dancing With Duke - sample solo
- 13. Dancing With Duke - guide tones
- 01. 8: The Minor II-V-I
- 02. Relative Major and Minor
- 03. Cycle of fifths with relative minor keys
- 04. Melodic and Harmonic Minor
- 05. Leading note within the dominant seventh chord
- 06. The harmonic Minor scale in Minor cadences
- 07. Minor V7-Im7
- 08. Minor V7-I in twelve keys
- 09. Minor V7-I lick
- 10. Minor cadences in jazz progressions
- 11. Phrygian to harmonic minor
- 12. The Minor seven flat five chord
- 13. Autumn Sun
- 14. Feel and Swing
- 15. Autumn Sun - sample solo
- 16. Using the Dorian mode on root Minor seventh chords
- 01. 9: Song and Standards
- 02. Among The Stars
- 03. Using chords III and VI
- 04. III-VI-II-V-I progression
- 05. Expanding a chord sequence
- 06. The II7 chord
- 07. Undying Love - head
- 08. Rhythmic exercise
- 09. Turnarounds
- 10. Take The Express Train
- 11. Modulation to chord four
- 01. 10: Bebop
- 02. Chromaticism
- 03. Articulation
- 04. The Bebop scale
- 05. 52nd St. Blues
- 06. Bebop Soloing
- 01. 11: Style Workout
- 02. Flying With The Bird
- 03. Rhythm Changes
- 04. Bebop language
- 05. Syncopation
- 06. Phrasing
- 07. Latin Music
- 08. Bossa Nova bass line
- 09. Super Nova
- 10. Straight Quavers
- 11. Anticipated rhythms
- 12. Non-diatonic notes
- 13. Ballads
- 14. Sleepless Eyes
- 15. Tone and vibrato
- 16. Blues Shuffle
- 17. Times Square Shuffle
- 01. Conclusion
- 02. What Now?
- 03. Further Study
- 04. Transcription
- 05. Real Books
- 06. History and Listening
- 07. 1920s - Early Days
- 08. 1930s - The Big Bands (Swing era)
- 09. 1940s and 50s - Bebop
- 10. Mid 1950s - Hardbop
- 11. 1960 - Modal jazz and beyond
- 12. Late 1960s and 70s - Soul jazz and Fusion
- 13. 1980s onwards
- 14. Selected Biographies
- 15. Index
- 16. Track Listings
- 01. Fig 1.1 Leavin Town
- 02. Fig 1.2 Leavin Town (bluesed-up version)
- 03. Fig 1.9a Write your own 12-bar blues
- 04. Fig 1.10 Sample Blues solo - Leavin Town
- 05. Fig 2.5a Major seventh workout (Bb, Db, E, G)
- 06. Fig 2.5b Major seventh workout (B, D, F, Ab)
- 07. Fig 2.5c Major seventh workout (C, Eb, Gb, A)
- 08. Fig 2.14 Major 7th Heaven
- 09. Fig 3.4a Minor seventh workout #1
- 10. Fig 3.4b Minor seventh workout #2
- 11. Fig 3.4c Minor seventh workout #3
- 12. Fig 3.15a So Far, So Good
- 13. Fig 4.5a Mixolydian workout
- 14. Fig 4.5b Mixolydian workout
- 15. Fig 4.5c Mixolydian workout
- 16. Fig 4.13 Sonnys Blues
- 17. Fig 5.1 Pearly White
- 18. Fig 5.3 Down To It
- 19. Fig 6.3 Modal workout
- 20. Fig 6.4 Modal sequence from a static root
- 21. Fig 6.9 First Impression
- 22. Fig 7.3a Unresolved ending
- 23. Fig 7.3b Resolved ending
- 24. Fig 7.6 Third and seventh notes of each dominant chord
- 25. Fig 7.7 Guide tone line with swing rhythm
- 26. Fig 7.8 Rhythm Changes bridge
- 27. Fig 7.10a II-V-I in twelve keys
- 28. Fig 7.11a Dancing With Duke (Head)
- 29. Fig 8.13 Minor V7-I in twelve keys
- 30. Fig 8.14 Minor V7-Im7 lick
- 31. Fig 8.16 Diatonic chord sequence with chord types and guide tones
- 32. Fig 8.20 Autumn Sun (Head)
- 33. Fig 8.21 Autumn Sun (Sample solo)
- 34. Fig 9.1 Among The Stars
- 35. Fig 9.3a A section of Undying Love
- 36. Fig 9.3b A section of Undying Love with II7 chord
- 37. Fig 9.4 Undying Love - Head
- 38. Fig 9.7a Take The Express Train A section
- 39. Fig 9.7b Take The Express Train expanded sequence
- 40. Fig 9.7c III-VI-II-V-I
- 41. Fig 9.8a Take The Express Train - Head
- 42. Fig 10.1 52nd St. Blues head with I, IV, V changes
- 43. Fig 10.5 II-V-I to Bb7
- 44. Fig 10.8 52nd St. Blues
- 45. Fig 11 Flying With The Bird
- 46. Fig 11.2a Super Nova
- 47. Fig 11.7 Sleepless Eyes
- 48. Fig 11.8 Times Square Shuffle

About this songbook

Ready to sound like a jazz flautist - not just play the right notes? Exploring Jazz Flute by Ollie Weston takes you from core jazz foundations to real, playable style - step by step, with tunes, sample solos, and play-along backing tracks that help your time, feel, and confidence lock in fast.

This book is for flautists who can already play the basics and read notes and rhythms, and now want to improvise with a convincing jazz sound. It builds your jazz vocabulary through the blues, essential chord types, modes, cadences, and the all-important II-V-I - then turns that knowledge into music with stylistic workouts, standards, and bebop-inspired material.

Play the language: blues scale, swing quavers, chord tones, passing tones, and classic jazz progressions
Learn by doing: practical exercises plus tunes that put each concept into context
Steal like a pro: sample solos you can study for phrasing, articulation, and authentic jazz ideas
Press play and learn: recorded rhythm-section backings and demonstrations for guided practice

Along the way you will explore styles you will meet in real playing situations - blues and swing, bebop language, latin and bossa nova, jazz/funk grooves, and ballad playing. Start now, turn to the first chapter, and let the backing tracks turn practice into performance.

About the author: Ollie Weston is professor of jazz saxophone at the Guildhall School of Music and brings a teacher’s clarity to the craft of learning jazz.

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Meet the Guru

Ollie Weston

Since graduating from the Leeds College of Music (BA Hons) and the Guildhall School of Music (Post Graduate Diploma in Performance), Ollie has built a busy and varied career in music. As a saxophonist he has performed in live and studio settings with artists as diverse as Amy Winehouse, Tim Minchin, Bonobo, Frank Turner, the London Jazz Orchestra, the Hackney Colliery Band, the Ambient Jazz Ensemble and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. He is also the co-leader of the jazz quartet 'Time Is Of The Essence', and composes and arranges material for this and other ensembles.

Ollie is active in music education, currently as course leader for the jazz department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (junior school), where he runs jazz ensembles, big band and theory classes. He has written a series of 'Exploring Jazz' books for Schott Music that are published worldwide and feature on exam syllabuses in the UK. Ollie has also run workshops for Oxford University, Pro Corda Strings and BABSWE, as well as the Guildhall School of Music summer schools.

In his Exploring Jazz Saxophone courses, Ollie takes you from getting started right through to soloing confidently over songs and chord sequences, building the improvising skills that put a real jazz player's vocabulary at your fingertips.

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