Kids with Instruments: Learn to Solo for All Instruments

Preface

This handbook offers a different approach toward achieving a wider variety of jazz technique. It presents an alternative to what is currently being taught in jazz curriculums (such as the over-used "chord-scale" system). Building upon the original work of Arnold Schõnberg in his Structural Functions of Harmony (1954; 1969) this work takes Schõnberg''s "monotonality" approach and broadens it for use in the jazz medium.

To Schõnberg, the concept of "monotonality" held that every digre...