Jazz Piano Scales, Grades 1-5

This book of jazz scales will develop the technical skills you need to play jazz. It introduces patterns characteristic of the idiom, like the blues scale, the pentatonic and various modes, and it explores these patterns on the roots and key centres commonly found in jazz. Regular and flexible practice of these forms, and using them as the basis for improvisation, will give you fluency and technical control. This book sets out the scales by grade and gives a table of recommended speeds.