I’m pleased to announce that my latest e-book, Encyclopedia of Triad Pairs: A Playable Reference for the Improvising Musician, is now available for purchase and immediate download.

Triad pairs (i.e., the combination of two triads that share no common tones) are a staple of the modern jazz language. Exploring and practicing with triad pairs can reveal seemingly endless melodic possibilities when improvising. And if you’re not an improvising musician, practicing regularly with triad pairs will challenge and improve your technical skills.

In this e-book, I’ve used major, minor, diminished and augmented triads to present a comprehensive entry point into exploring triad pairs that can be formed from diatonic, polytonic and symmetrical tonalities. I demonstrate how to apply these triad pairs over dominant chords resolving to tonic. In doing so I also show how each pair can be organized as a stand alone “mode”, as well as how to insert chromatic passing tones in order to add even more melodic possibilities and interesting tensions.

Whether you’re new to working with triad pairs or not, this book serves as both an entry point for the novice, as well as a comprehensive reference for the more experienced improviser. With over 120 pages of notated musical exercises, you will have lots to work on!

So take a look at the landing page on my blog, which has a pdf sample of one of the notated exercises, as well as a pdf copy of the written introduction of the book, which further explains the concept, the format, the benefits and the practice guidelines for implementing the work.

And as always, let me know what you think! Thanks!