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Includes 30 terrific tracks representing various styles and forms of the blues. Advice on scale choices and a scale syllabus make this a valuable educational tool for the novice and a “just plain fun” workout for the more advanced player. Note: the C edition works for Bass Clef instruments.
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Helps musicians know what to do with specific chords in specific contexts. Lays out clear and objective guidelines on how to turn scales and chords into real music. Perfect for a college or high school improvisation class!
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For beginning bassists, walking bass lines can be very confusing. This method is a quick way of learning to walk through changes. Endorsed by North Texas State band director Neil Slater.
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This book/CD pack teaches the techniques and fundamentals of this influential instrumentalist of “Yakety Sax” fame. Includes six solo transcriptions, an interview with Boots, photos, performances and play-alongs.
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Brushes have been used since the early part of this century, yet there is very little written to help drummers develop their brush technique. This book covers hand positions, the snare drum head, brush patterns & exercises in many different time signatures, combination brush and stick playing, blues brushes, the techniques of famous players, and lots more. Author Willis Kirk has 30 years of experience playing brushes with literally hundreds of musicians.
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A valuable resource for learning the basics of jazz from Mike Steinel of the University of North Texas. It covers the basics of jazz, how to build effective solos, a comprehensive practice routine, and a jazz vocabulary of the masters.
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An incredible presentation of the most practical exercises an aspiring jazz student could want. All are logically interwoven with fine “real world” examples from jazz to classical. This book is an essential anthology of technical, compositional, and theoretical exercises, with lots of musical examples.
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Improv fundamentals for teachers and students, covering the blues, modes, scales, progressions and more, plus chapters on phrasing melodies, the “swing” concept, phraseology in modern jazz, chord nomenclature, and solo development.
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This text suggests a more connected process for expanding the jazz vocabulary. Improvisational devices are presented as derived from diatonic scales, the harmonic and melodic basis of mainstream jazz. Michael Brecker highly recommends this book, calling it “useful and insightful...for all musicians who wish to expand their harmonic range and improvisational abilities. Also endorsed by James Moody and David Liebman.
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The excitement of a musical career spanning over 30 years is captured here in the 22 solos composed by Gordon and transcribed directly off his recordings. Chord changes for tenor sax and 'in concert' key are provided along with Gordon's own articulations.
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The second edition of this bestseller comes highly endorsed from the pros and is published at a new lower price! It continues to be a “must-have” for students of improvisation, demonstrating developing new material for jazz-fusion.
Subtitle: Playing Drum Set in a Jazz Rhythm Section Product Number:
HL00030026 Series: Jazz Book Publisher: Houston Publishing, Inc. Pages: 48 Price: $14.95
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This book is for giving the beginning drum set player the basics he or she needs to play drum set in either a big/jazz band setting or a combo setting. It correlates with the books Playing Guitar in a Jazz/Big Band, I Walk the Line: Creating a Bass Line, and Intermediate Jazz Piano Comping: At the Bridge. All of the song examples are on Volume 54 of the Jamey Aebersold Play-Along series. An extremely helpful book for drummers, educators and arrangers.
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For the beginning big-band or combo jazz guitar player. Can be used separately or in conjunction with Playing Guitar in a Big Band, Groove Master, and/or Intermediate Jazz Piano Comping.
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This book is meant to pick up where 'Jazz Piano Comping: From The Top' left off. It provides authentic piano voicings for jazz piano accompaniments. All of the song examples are on Volume 54 of the Jamey Aebersold Play-a-long Series.
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The intent of this book is to provide a measure of practical training through examples of traditional and contemporary styles of writing for the double bass. It also deals with technique, facility, and endurance required for solo work by means of carefully graded exercises. These exercises are designed to strengthen the fingers, overcome difficulties in intonation, and, in general, establish a good contact between the student and the instrument. Includes lots of instruction and close-up photos.
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From Thom Mason comes a fun and interesting guide to help you develop aural skills. This book focuses on improving your technique in hearing pitches, rhythms, melodies, and chord progressions, as directly to applied to actual music in the jazz repertoire. The text will help you to hear music in your head from the written page, transcribe, and sight sing, all the while making it musical through appropriate jazz phrasing and articulations. The valuable lessons learned can be applied to any instrument or voice, with skills that transcend jazz, useful in all styles of music.
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The exercises in this new book from Houston Publishing are designed to help the alto saxophonist develop more jazz technique and more control in the altissimo register. Includes jazz etudes on common chord progressions.
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This book makes the teaching of improvisation as time-efficient for a group of twenty as it is for a single student. An innovative layout and terrific instructional material make this book a superior jazz tool.
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These etudes by Marc Adler will delight both classical and jazz musicians. Marc is an accomplished flutist and composer in both the jazz and classical arenas and is also an experienced educator. These twelve etudes explore each of the twelve keys but at the same time step out into contemporary sounds characteristic of modern jazz and 20th-century classical music, such as whole tone and diminished scales, and colorful chord progressions. Jazz flutists will enjoy his original jazz licks and may want to add some of them to their vocabulary of patterns. Classical flutists will appreciate the challenge of sight-reading these tightly woven compositions while savoring their improvisatory character.
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This approach to studying jazz harmony provides an appropriate sound in a jazz setting early in guitarists' development and gives them a foundation in both linear and structural harmonic concepts, preparing them for more advanced theoretical concepts. Other applications for this book/CD pack include voicings for percussionists developing four mallet technique on vibes, and material for band directors who want to use the guitar to its fullest potential, and for arrangers writing for the guitar.
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Introduces jazz piano playing from the very beginning! From chord symbols to comping, this book will get any player started and let them make sense of the jazz language.
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Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring “outside” the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.
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Jazz Theory Resources is a jazz theory text in two volumes. Volume I (00030458, $39.95) includes: review of basic theory, rhythm in jazz performance, basic tonal materials, triadic generalization, diatonic harmonic progressions and harmonic analysis, substitutions and turnarounds, common melodic outlines, and an overview of voicings. Volume II (00030459, $29.95) includes: modes and modal frameworks, quartal harmony, other scales and colors, extended tertian structures and triadic superimposition, pentatonic applications, coloring “outside” the lines and beyond, analysis, and expanding harmonic vocabulary. Appendices on chord/scale relationships, elaborations of static harmony, endings, composing tips and theory applications are also included.
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This book contains 12 standard blues tunes with solos in all keys. Includes four-measure excerpts in all keys and jazz lines and exercises in all keys.
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The minor blues are a part of every great jazz musician's repertoire. This book will help you learn how to play the minor blues. Features 12 original tunes, four-measure excerpts in all keys, scale systems that can be used on the minor blues in all keys, and miscellaneous jazz lines and exercises in all keys.
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An exciting book on the theory and studies of the Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz-Rock keyboardist. It covers the basics of how to build pentatonic scales, a comprehensive practice routine, and a jazz vocabulary.
