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Review of triad pairs for jazz by gary campbell paul maine. Connecting jazz theory paperback december 1, 1998 by gary campbell author 2. Viiivi is also very common in jazz and is yet another extension of this. An approach to jazz harmony scholarly repository university of. I highly recommend this book if you want to understand music theory whether to compose music or to play it. Become a much better improviser by taking this class.
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