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IMPROVISATIONAL
RESOURCES
How to Play from a Real Book —Robert Rawlins.
All musicians should be able to sit down at the keyboard and make
sense of a tune. With that goal in mind, every instrumentalist and singer
can profit from this book. It covers many techniques for exploring,
understanding, and performing songs found in "The Real Book" series.
You will learn how to analyze the form and harmonic structure, insert an
introduction, interpret the melody, improvise on the chords, construct
bass lines, voice the chords, add substitutions, and much more. Offering
a theory based approach, it addresses many aspects of solo and small
band performance that can improve your own playing and singing, and
your understanding of what others are doing around you. Playing from a
real book is about options. The material presented here will offer you a full
range of techniques that you can put to use right away.
10299155 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.99
H Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Volume #1
(How to Play Jazz and Improvise) —Jamey Aebersold.
This first volume in this acclaimed series is easy to understand and
inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz
improvisation. The CD includes blues in Bb and F, four dorian minor
tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants, a 24-measure
song, and II/V7 in all keys. The book includes transposed parts for all
instruments and the CD also includes Jamey playing exercises from
the book. Includes: Scales/Chords; Developing Creativity; Improv
Fundamentals; 12 Blues Scales; Bebop Scales; Pentatonic Scales; Time
and Feel; Melodic Development; II/V7s; Related Scales and Modes;
Practical Exercises; Patterns and Licks; Dominant 7th Tree of Scale
Choices; Nomenclature; Chromaticism; Scale Syllabus and more! Level:
Beginning/Intermediate.
2239994 Flexible Instrumentation Book & 2 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.95
11171530 Flexible Instrumentation Book & 2 CDs
Japanese Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.95
Minor Is Major! —Dan Greenblatt. Minor is Major! gives jazz
improvisers hundreds of ways to negotiate their way through chord
progressions in minor keys, including scale choices, hidden chords within
those scales, and melodic patterns based on the intervals in the scales.
Numerous transcriptions are included of great jazz improvisers such as
Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Clifford Brown, McCoy Tyner,
Joe Henderson and Chick Corea, and important jazz composers such
as Billy Strayhorn, Horace Silver, Dizzy Gillespie, and Wayne Shorter,
showing how they use harmonic and melodic minor scales. If you are a
jazz player, this book is for you!
10451851 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.00
Ready, Aim, Improvise! Book 1
(Exploring the Basics of Jazz Improvisation)—Hal Crook.
This book explores the critical areas involved in learning how to improvise,
including music theory, jazz harmony, ear training, jazz execution, jazz
vocabulary, practicing, self-critiquing, career planning, and much more.
It is filled with musical examples, exercises, and practice routines that
help make the learning process easy and enjoyable. The online audio
features modal, key-area, and modulating chord progressions performed
at a slow, manageable tempo. This is a clear, comprehensive study of the
most important steps in a jazz musician's education. Don't be surprised if
it gets you practicing more and playing better in no time at all!
11335682 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.95
Ready, Aim, Improvise! Book 2 (Exploring the Basics of Jazz
Improvisation)—Hal Crook. This second book in the series explores
the critical areas involved in learning how to improvise, including music
theory, jazz harmony, ear training, jazz execution, jazz vocabulary,
practicing, self-critiquing, career planning, and much more. It is filled with
musical examples, exercises, and practice routines that help make the
learning process easy and enjoyable. The online audio features modal,
key-area, and modulating chord progressions performed at a slow,
manageable tempo. This is a clear, comprehensive study of the most
important steps in a jazz musician's education. Don't be surprised if it
gets you practicing more and playing better in no time at all!
11335793 Paperback Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.95
lH The Real Easy Book - Volume 1
(Tunes for Beginning Improvisers - Expanded Three-Horn Edition)
— arr. Larry Dunlap.
Originally developed specifically for beginning jazz improvisers, this
newly revised edition now includes easy three-horn arrangements for
each tune with separate pages for each horn player! Each tune includes
harmony parts for the melody, background parts behind the soloists,
ensemble shout choruses and more. These 41 jazz songs, many of which
are jazz standards, are easy to play, easy to learn, and fun to play. They
represent the entire spectrum of the idiom, including swing, bebop,
post-bop, contemporary, funk, jazz/rock, and Latin styles. The format
is exceptionally user-friendly. With the book open, the music for each
song is on the left-hand page. The right-hand page is a special page
of supplemental material (sample piano voicings, useful scales, guitar
voicings, bass lines, etc.) specifically tailored to that song. Get students,
or your young jazz combo, sounding great right away with the first fake
book ever designed for the beginning improviser.
5977798 Fake Book C Instruments, 3 Horn Edition. . . . . . . . . . VE28.00
5977799 Fake Book B-Flat Instruments, 3 Horn Edition . . . . . . . . 28.00
5977800 Fake Book E-Flat Instruments, 3 Horn Edition . . . . . . . . 28.00
5977801 Fake Book Bass Clef Instruments, 3 Horn Edition . . . . . 28.00
11376852 Fake Book Drum Chart Supplement, 3 Horn Edition . . . 24.00
The Rhythm Changes Guide —Lukas Gabric.
The most comprehensive guide for rhythm changes ever published,
offering a wealth of information for beginners and professionals alike.
Written in the language of the working musician and clearly laid out.
11335993 Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.00
Rhythm First! (A Beginner's Guide to Jazz Improvisation)—
Tom Kamp. In a step-by-step fashion, Rhythm First! builds up the
student's library of rhythmic figures and has them playing along with the
accompanying CD to get the sound and feel of jazz soloing under their
fingers. Melodically, the book starts with playing simple rhythmic figures
on any note, then on the tonic of the F blues scale, followed by the tonic
and one other note. Over the course of the book, it progresses to show
how and when to use three kinds of blues scales. This method is more fun
and therefore more successful in getting students starting to improvise
than many other approaches. A must for any school jazz program!
10567894 Book & CD C Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.00
10867439 Book & CD B-flat Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.00
10867440 Book & CD E-flat Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.00
10867441 Book & CD Bass Clef Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.00
Scales for Jazz Improvisation —Haerle. Haerle presents the scales
used in improvisation and explains applications. Scales shown in all keys
and treble and bass clefs include blues, ionian, dorian, phrygian, locrian
as well as whole tone, chromatic, augmented and many more. Great aid
to memorizing.
922161 Flexible Instrumentation Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.99
Help develop improvisation skills so your ensemble
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