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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
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
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 . . . . . . . . VE 32.00
5977799 Fake Book B-Flat Instruments, 3 Horn Edition . . . . . . . 32.00
5977800 Fake Book E-Flat Instruments, 3 Horn Edition . . . . . . . 32.00
5977801 Fake Book Bass Clef Instruments, 3 Horn Edition . . . . 32.00
11376852 Fake Book Drum Chart Supplement, 3 Horn Edition . . 24.00
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
The Rhythm Changes Guide—Lukas Gabric.
A comprehensive guide to rhythm changes, 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
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