Anyone Can Improvise - DVD

This course is designed to help beginning to intermediate guitarists learn to improvise fills and solos for country songs. You’ll learn to create your own lead licks using a major pentatonic scale then advance to a slightlymore complex approach.Hammer-ons pull-offs and slides will be added to increase the speed and smoothness of your lead playing. Finally you'll learn single and double string bends for that 'real Nashville sound.'

Written by Dominic Alldis, Jazz Piano Tutor at the Royal Academy of Music, this is an invaluable tutor for those wishing to incorporate their previous classical training into learning the Jazz idiom. Divided into two parts, part one begins with improvisation using pantatonic scales, this encourages an exploration of the keyboard using a rudimentary melodic and harmonic framework. Part two begins with an introduction to bebop by applying the melodic syntax found in a Bach prelude to aharmonic progression of a jazz standard. Features explanations and examples of: Pentatonic Improvisation The Blues Rock Piano Rhythmic Displacement Scale Theory Major Scale Theory Applied Melodic Syntax The Language of Bebop Minor Scale Theory Applied Pentatonic Scale Theory Applied Left-Hand Accompaniment Walking Bass Lines Thematic Development Performance Tips. This book represents the culmination of hundreds of hours spent teaching jazz piano, and should be an enjoyable course of study for anyone who loves jazz piano and who wants to make steps towards understanding the vast array of possibilities open to the improvising pianist.

Play and Learn is an exciting method to learn the art of jazz improvisation -- for individual study or classroom use with an entire jazz ensemble. Through the use of recorded jazz tracks (70 on the CDs included), sequenced concepts involving exercises, licks and mini-charts, plus structured lessons, a student can acquire improvisation skills.

This DVD is designed for the guitarist who wants to study jazz Guitar improvisation. This course uses a logical beginning approach that includes jazz theory explanations common chord substitutions major jazz scales andmodes and their applications.No music reading is required in this course however knowledge of chord diagrams and tablature is needed. This DVD method is equivalent to several months of private instruction.

Par RICKER RAMON. Contemporary straight-eighth 'Maiden Voyage' feel. This chart takes up where 'Suspended Animation' left off. Uses same two suspended chords and adds a bridge. There is space for anyone in the band to solo. To help the beginning improviser, the composer has included some brief 'Notes on the Improvised Sections'. In addition this chart is correlated with material found in Vol. 1 of the Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series. Advance Music is proud to present our new Groovin' Easy Series. We've taken 10 tunes from two popular Advance Music publications (Reading Key Jazz Rhythms and The Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series) and asked our writers to give us creative and musically challenging charts that are also playable by young bands. To the normal big band instrumentation of 5 saxes, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones and rhythm section we've added optional parts for flute, clarinet, French horn, guitar and auxiliary percussion. In addition, each chart is written to sound full with a reduced instrumentation of only 3 saxes, 2 trumpets, 1 trombone and rhythm section. The brass ranges are reasonable with the lead trumpet never going above a written C and the rhythm section parts are carefully notated and thought out./ Répertoire / Big Band

New Orleans Style Made Easy 4-Sit down with piano master David Bennett Cohen for an essential lesson on New Orleans piano styles. Like a great Southern chef David shows you the exact recipe for combining blues gospel country and boogie-woogie to achieve a rich musical gumbo of sounds. David shows dozens of ideas you can use for soloing improvising and exploring the keyboard: Bass lines bluesy riffs hot arpeggios and the essential scales necessary to play in the New Orleans tradition. With Homespun?s ?piano cam? floating above the keyboard you?ll be able to see and follow exactly what David is playing. The old gospel song When The Saints Go Marching In is taught both in an up-tempoand a minor dirge-like version; Crawfish Royale uses 'second line' clave rhythm; Nobody Knows You When You?re Down and Out shows you how to deal with a more complicated chord progression; and the soulful Georgia On My Mind illustrates how to improvise over chord changes. This is a great lesson for anyone looking to learn the basics of New Orleans piano and American roots music.

Original, acoustic jazz melodies for the jazz fan and anyone whowants to develop his or her musicality. With written-out solos andchords, improvisation is encouraged. In addition to playing alongwith the CD, you can also play the pieces as duets with twoprofessional musicians from the Chris Vadala Quintet. Listen, playand improvise with inspiring jazz music! / Trompette / 56 pages / niveau : Moyen / Partition + Cd

Part 2-In the world of playing keyboards knowing every scale expression marking and time signature under the sun is only half the story. Once your technique is hammered into shape and you understand the basics of theory it can take a conceptual leap to implement these things in your playing. Following on from the acclaimed first instalment of this series 100 Tips For Keyboards Part 2 shows you exactly how to achieve this. Featuring a goldmine of expert tips on how to develop your technique how not to practise and - vitally - how to improvise and create solos it's the logical successor to Part 1. Packed with invaluable practical advice from rigging up your own keyboardsystem to making it in the music business 100 Tips For Keyboards - Part 2 is an indispensable handbook for anyone halfway serious about playing keyboards.

An introduction to modern flute techniqueswith workbook and DVDThis workbook and DVD will galvanize anyone into action who wants to learn and apply contemporary flute techniques. Everything from beatboxing on the flute to high speed trills is included. Tilmann Dehnhard's confidence-building approach and helpful practical advice will ensure good progress in this exciting genre and kindle the self-assurance to improvise and experiment. Each chapter is complete in itself and working through the book from the beginning is not required. Specific skills can be worked on in any order - just as you please. All of the exercises in the book are demonstrated on the DVD whichis invaluable - bringing to life the techniques explained in the book.Highly recommended Pan Magazine 6/2013New popular flute techniques such as Flute-Beatboxing Sing & Play and many moreImprovisational approach to new sounds - play experiment and exploreAll exercises are demonstrated on the DVD by Tilmann Dehnhard bringing to life the techniques explained in the bookUseful material for practising playing and teachingIndividual chapters are independent of each other and can be worked on in any orderAdditional material for printing out is provided on the DVD

Graded jazz pieces for solo flute recently set on the new Trinity College syllabus for all 8 grades. The story behind Scatadoodledoo: 'One day when I was at home practising my flute for a Jazz gig I had a particularly hard chart with lots of key changes and I just couldn't get into the flow of it. I was thinking logically and thinking of the chord symbols and just thinking thinking thinking which anyone who improvises knows is a sure way to stop you being 'in the flow'. Being a Jazz singer I love to scat sing and so I soon found myself putting my flute down and scat singing through the chart instead. I wasn't thinking I was justscatting around with my 'do-be-doos' and I was really getting into it and enjoying myself feeling so free in comparison to when I was improvising on the flute. That's when I had the idea to sing and play on my flute at the same time... I figured that all I needed to do was practice playing on my flute what I was singing at the same time and I'd be sorted with this hard chart in front of me. I started off simply at first but the more I practised the more I found my voice and fingers working together until it literally felt like they were 'one' and I was 'singing my flute'. Then when I took my voice out of it and all that remained was the sound of my flute that feeling of 'singing' still remained and I felt a freedom in my flute improvising that had been missing before. This discovery completely changed my jazz flute playing and to this day it is still my favourite way of practising improvising. 'Scatadoodledoo' is to encourage all Jazz flautists to start thinking of their flute as the voice they are scat singing with. The pieces range from grade one through to grade eight. Although the more advanced pieces like 'scatastrophy' and 'scatterbrain' have sections where the flautist has a chance to actually play and sing at the same time it is never too early to practice this method whether it be with scales or with beginner pieces like 'Scat Walker'. I hope you enjoy playing these as much as I enjoyed writing them.' Alicia Hart

'Music to the little ones' - This book appeals to anyone who wants to give the young ones a musical good start in life: parents grandparents childminders nursery and kindergarten teachers music teachers and other adults. The musical interaction can range from small spontaneous improvised melodies and bedtime songs till more consciously musical stimulation and focused professional music lessons. Regardless of what level and in what context the musical interaction takes place most will need ideas and inspiration - and perhaps refreshment of the repertoire oneself sang as a child. In addition to singing with the child at home it can be nice and fun to sing play andmake music with others - in large or small groups. The music's impact on the child's social development is well known and well documented. The main musical upbringing of the new little baby takes place at home.

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