Repository of Scales and Melodic Patterns: Spiral-bound Book

2nd copy in less than one week and pages creased top right hand corner

If you're a music major, whether you're a performing major or composing major, this book is your best friend. It provides melodic concepts of various types, styles, and forms that will not only help you write music at a professional level like Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Coltrane, or any other musical idol, but it will also help you think of improvisations based on some of these melodic lines.I am using this as my "practice" book for my alto sax playing which will improve my sight reading (it's not an 1 definite key, although I recommend euphonium, baritone, trombonists, and tubists to transpose from treble to bass clef), and a reference book to create bridges from one song to another since I was comissioned to write some wind sextetes.

Just as the book title says, this is a repository - a whole bunch of choices! You can learn about scales from various parts of the world and that's part of the uniqueness about this book. When you want an opportunity to hear some interesting note groupings and scales, this book provides tons of examples for you to either incorporate into your existing practice routine. You may even use this book as a way to discover sound and unlock ideas that you might never have considered before. From the non-Music School Musician's perspective, I found this book to be good for helping me think of how scales in this book sound compared to other more common scales.After playing out of this book for a while, your ears will start to hear why Yusef Lateef wrote it and you will also learn just how much there is to learn about Music. I highly recommend this book and recommend that you play these slowly and listen closely as you learn. You will start to hear some cool things within the scales and patterns and expand your musical palette a bit each time you play out of this nice book.

The print quality of the copy I received today is excellent. I thought it was important to leave a review of this Jamey Aebersold Jazz publication of Yusef Lateef's "Repository of scales and melodic patterns", because some reviewers described poor printing.

This book is a piece of music history, and if you're a jazz musician, or any musician, it's one of the most important books you can add to your reference library, though it won't spend much time on the shelf. Open the book anywhere, pick up your instrument, and before you know it, you're someplace you've never been. They could rename this the Freedom Book. And it starts with this diagram, created either by Yusef Lateef or John Coltrane (I've read the story both ways) and given from one to the other as a challenge. There is no explanation and the things I've read don't help. That's part of the fun. I don't know if the book is the key to the puzzle, but it's a journey of discovery, maybe with a key to this puzzle hidden somewhere within.

I began buying guitar and music theory books in 1972. My collection is very large. The Repository by Lateef is one of my all time favorites. Just open it to any random page, play slow and accurate and you will find yourself in completely different parts of the musical universe. The only book I have that is similar to it is the Slonimsky Thesaurus, which I also highly recommend. Guitar players, you will need to be able to read music, there is no tab. Most of the music is treble clef and playable on guitar.This book will give you a lot of ideas for composition and riffs to jam on. Enjoy the musical adventures.

This book is a fine complementary to Slonimsky's "Thesaurus", because Dr. Lateef (and I think his primary instrument may have been the oboe) has investigated scales from around the world and given musicians, jazz and otherwise, a lot to think about and, yes, to play and to play with. One page even has one of my favorite Coltrane runs, which made me grin like a Cheshire cat. And when you stop and realize that all music, all over the planet, is based on scales---wow! What are you waiting for? Dig in! Oh yeah---the Coltrane run is on page 241.

This book is for serious musicians. Buy it!

Hard to describe how much you need from this book but it opens doors that you didn’t even know existed.Some scales are so melodic that you wonder where they come from and why they touch me that much.I like the suggested chords for the scales, very eye opening.

Es un libro adicional al famoso de Slonimsky, aunque algunos lo consideran más adecuado para experimentar en el jazz. Ambos son imprescindibles.

Super książka!

El contenido del “libro” es genial, pero la impresión tiene fragmentos no muy definidos que no imposibilita su lectura pero la dificulta. Además de traer unas tapas poco más duras que el papel y gusanillo de plástico. Un gran número de páginas con tapas tan blandas y gusanillo de plástico hace que tengas que ir con cuidado. Al abrir completamente el libro, las hojas que pasan quedan un poco más altas que el resto, tiene importancia si usas atril, tienes que inclinarlo hacia atrás un poco más.Buen compendio musical, mal soporte físico, precio alto para la calidad del producto.

I am not saying i have readiy all, But what i have read read is expanding my mind on what music is.