Unlock: Jazz Etudes - Paperback

by Sarpay Ozcagatay (Author)

UNLOCK VOL. III Advanced Jazz Etudes are designed to provide detailed aspects for players to improve their musicality, technical agility, articulations, dynamics, rhythmic studies and sight-reading skills. There are 12 etudes based on swing, bebop, contemporary, funk, ballad, jazz waltz and odd-time signature styles. Each etude focuses on different techniques for enhancing the players' understanding of the note-chord relationship along with all of the other skills listed above.When working on these etudes, you should practice them slowly in the beginning and gradually raise the tempo as you become more comfortable with the etudes. Following this guideline will help you to retain what you're learning, depending your understanding of the etudes in the process. In addition to playing through the etudes, it is also recommended that you do a harmonic analysis of each etude to understand the melodic approaches used in each piece.Good luck with your studies, Play-along QR code is on the back side of the book

Author Biography

Sarpay Ozcagatay is the prestigious Berklee College of Music private instructor, author, performer and recording artist. His self-produced debut album of original compositions "Unexpectable", was released in 2013. It was well received by leading jazz critics and broadcasters in blogs, jazz radio, newspapers and flute magazines. He is an artist at the top notch Japanese flute company, Miyazawa Flutes and is also endorsed by Applied Microphone and Ton Kooiman thumb rest company. In addition, the "SharpEye" logo and brand that he made its way into many instrument makers work. British flute maker Trevor James created a signature "SharpEye" alto flute for him. As an educator, in addition to his workshops and extensive online presence, he serves as jazz chair of the National Flute Association and is a judge at their competitions. He recently published a series of flute method books for jazz and classical players titled UNLOCK(Vol.I, II & III). He has an extensive online presence and is followed by flute students and professionals from around the world. He has performed countless concerts at prestigious jazz and world music venues and at music festivals with Grammy Award winning artists and internationally acclaimed musicians from all over the world. As a recording artist, he has performed on many albums as both a leader and a sideman, as well as being a voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy's).