mDecks Music, a leader in innovative music education resources, has released a groundbreaking new book series dedicated to mastering jazz standards. This comprehensive collection provides musicians with essential tools to enhance their improvisation, harmonic understanding, and melodic development—featuring over 1,500 jazz standards fully analyzed.
The series, now available at mDecks.com, includes:
The Jazz Standards Progressions Book
Explore the harmonic structure of jazz standards with fully analyzed chord progressions, chord-scales & arrows & brackets analysis.
The Jazz Standards Reharmonized Book
Discover creative reharmonization techniques to transform classic jazz standards.
The Ultimate Jazz Standards Harmony Workbook
All the same tunes but in a worksheet format with no chords, so that you can work on filling in the chords based on the harmonic progression.
The Jazz Standards Guide-Tone Lines Book
Develop smooth, voice-led improvisation with guide-tone lines that highlight the harmonic essence of jazz standards.
The Jazz Standards Upper Structures Book
Explore upper structure triads & quartals to create modern, angular voicings over standard jazz chord progressions.
The Jazz Standards Target Notes Book
Learn how to craft strong improvisational lines by targeting essential target notes.
With a collection of over 1,500 jazz standards fully analyzed, this series is one of the most comprehensive resources available for jazz musicians. Whether you’re a pianist, arranger, bassist, or soloist, these books offer an invaluable resource for taking your jazz playing to the next level.
“Our goal is to give musicians a structured yet creative approach to mastering jazz standards,” said Ariel J. Ramos, creator of mDecks Music and developer of Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro. “These books provide a clear path to understanding and applying essential jazz techniques while analyzing over 1,500 standards in a way never seen before.”
The Jazz Standards series is available for purchase exclusively on our website.