Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint - the relationship between musical voices - is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study of composition for many centuries. Whether you are a composer, arranger, film composer, orchestrator, music director, bandleader, or improvising musician, this book will help hone your craft, gain control, and lead you to new creative possibilities. You will learn tricks of the trade from the masters and apply these skills to contemporary styles. Online audio examples illustrate the principles being discussed, and many recommended listening lists point you to additional examples of how these principles have been used in music over the past thousand years. / Tous instruments / Berklee

Par RABSON MIMI. Master harmony on the violin fingerboard! This book will give you the fluency to improvise, play comping (accompanying) parts, add background lines, and deepen your enjoyment of all kinds of music. These exercises and etudes will help you practice arpeggios and comping voicings for commonly used chord progressions, with appropriate fingerings and alternate spellings when needed. You will develop left-hand dexterity and broaden your harmonic understanding and vocabulary. Audio tracks let you hear the exercises and then practice along with an accompanist. You will learn to: Construct the common triads and seventh chords: major, minor, diminished, and minor 7b5; Choose fingering strategies for common chord progressions; Play chords across the strings; Voice-lead chords to transition smoothly and ergonomically; Improvise melodic lines over chord changes; Comp chord patterns using essential rhythmic grooves. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Etude / Violon

Terri Lyne Carrington, Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, has curated a wide range of jazz compositions written by women composers, from obscure to popular, historic to current, blues to bebop, and beyond in this important collection. These compositions are supplementary and alternatives to the “jazz standard” canon that has served students, teachers and professionals throughout the development of jazz music. The compositions span nearly a century, including Lil Hardin Armstrong's work from 1922 to songs written in 2021 by recent Institute graduates. It features 101 compositions from a remarkable range of acknowledged titans, young visionaries and unsung heroes in jazz: Mary Lou Williams, Alice Coltrane, esperanza spalding, Geri Allen, Maria Schneider, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Dorothy Ashby, Nubya Garcia, Nicole Mitchell and many others. The book includes a 1922 piece by the influential Lil Hardin Armstrong and songs written in 2021 by emerging artists from Carrington's Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. New Standards also celebrates the global world of jazz, from Chilean tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana to Japanese American pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and other international composers. / Instrument en do / Berklee

Cette collection unique de la célèbre harpiste Felice Pomeranz comprend 24 études contemporaines prêtes à être jouées pour les joueurs de leviers et de pédales ayant des capacités intermédiaires à avancées. Les études couvrent une variété de niveaux de difficulté et vous aident à maîtriser et à appliquer une variété de pratiques contemporaines. Les sujets abordés comprennent : Les gammes, harmonies et progressions contemporaines - Les pratiques rythmiques, telles que les multi-mètres et le swing par rapport aux sensations droites - L\'indépendance et l\'endurance des mains - Les techniques d\'improvisation, les motifs de composition et les lignes de basse - Les étouffements, les glissades et les articulations - Les effets timbriques, tels que le splat, les effets xylophoniques, le gong et les sons de basse claquée. / Partitions classique / Cordes / Harpe / BERKLEE

Volumes 1 2 and 3 with 14 Hours of Video and 123 Audio Tracks-The William Leavitt Modern Method for Guitar used as the basic text for the Berklee College of Music guitar program has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors. By popular demand Berklee Press has created a compilation of the original volumes 1 2 and 3 including all audio and video tracks. Now serious guitar students and instructors from beginning through advanced have the convenience of progressing through all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one comprehensive book. Innovative solos duets and exercises progressively teach melody harmony and rhythm. This edition contains audio andvideo produced by William Leavitt's students Charles Chapman and Larry Baione (who was his successor as chair of the Berklee Guitar Department) demonstrating the examples and providing play-along tracks for the ensemble exercises.

Counterpoint in Jazz Arranging. Add dimension and interest to your music. This essential, core material is for anyone who arranges jazz standards or writes original jazz compositions. This book will help you craft melodies, countermelodies, bass lines, and grooves. It will help you manage the intricacies of interactive lines, control dissonance, and improve melodic development. Carefully guided exercises let you practice exploring and controlling contrapuntal relationships. The accompanying recordings demonstrate techniques in typical jazz arrangements. Audio tracks feature a live jazz ensemble of veteran Berklee faculty members, illustrating the counterpoint examples so that you can hear them applied in a realistic musical context.

Learn the nuances of music notation, and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use, from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols, as well as general guidelines for writing music. Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world, and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today's musicindustry, and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl, who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department. Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio, Hollywood sound stage, grand concert hall, worship choir loft, or elementary school auditorium, this book will help you to create readable, professional, publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions, you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work, and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music. / Partitions jazz&blues / Tous instruments par tonalité / Tous instruments / BERKLEE

Ajoutez de la dimension et de l'intérêt à votre musique. Ce matériel de base essentiel est destiné à tous ceux qui arrangent des standards de jazz ou écrivent des compositions de jazz originales. Ce livre vous aidera à créer des mélodies, des contre-mélodies, des lignes de basse et des grooves. Il vous aidera à gérer les subtilités des lignes interactives, à contrôler la dissonance et à améliorer le développement mélodique. Des exercices soigneusement guidés vous permettent de vous entraîner à explorer et à contrôler les relations contrapuntiques. Les enregistrements d'accompagnement démontrent des techniques dans des arrangements de jazz typiques. Les pistes audio présentent un ensemble de jazz en direct de membres vétérans du corps professoral de Berklee, illustrant les exemples de contrepoint afin que vous puissiez les entendre appliqués dans un contexte musical réaliste. / Partitions jazz

Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music and mentor to Keith Jarrett Diana Krall Joe Zawinul and thousands of others reveals thepedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels Berklee Jazz Piano maps the school's curriculum: a unique blend of theory and application that gives you a deep practicalunderstanding of how to play jazz. Concepts are illustrated by the accompanying practice CD where you'll hear how one of the great jazz pianists and educators of our time applies these concepts to both jazz standards and originalcompositions and how you can do the same.You will learn:Jazz chords and their characteristic tension substitutions in many voicings and configurationsModes and scales common in jazzTechniques forcomping developing bass lines harmonizing melodies melodizing harmonies and improvisationPractice techniques for committing these concepts to your muscle memoryVariations for solo and ensemble playingAdvancedconcepts such as rhythmic displacement approach-chord harmonization and jazz counterpoint.

Learn the art of jazz vocal improvisation! This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician?in the same way that instrumentalists do. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony, melody, and rhythm, integrating skills such as conducting and analysis. All concepts are reinforced with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate techniques and let you practice improvising along with a piano accompaniment.
You will learn to:
Develop your sense of timing and swing
Understand jazz harmony, such as tensions and non-diatonic chords, as well as chord progressions such as II V and cycle V progressions, and use harmony as your basis for creating expressive solos
Navigate song forms, such as AABA, blues forms, turnarounds, and other common jazz structures
Improve your ear for jazz harmony through studying intervals and chord progressions, and by memorizing emblematic jazz melodic patterns
Create expressive vocal lines that work well over jazz chords and integrate well within the context of a jazz ensemble
?Mili Bermejo?s Vocal Jazz Improvisation is the most comprehensive vocal book I have ever seen on improvisation. Her years of research and her wisdom and artistry leave no stones unturned. I would recommend this book to instrumentalists as well, to develop their ears and breadth of expression.?
?Jerry Bergonzi, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Educator

?I have been a huge fan of Mili as an artist for many years now, and have admired her impeccable skills as a teacher for just as long. Seeing Mili perform in duo with Dan Greenspan is one of the great wonders of the world. They make voice and bass seem like an orchestra, harmonically rich and complete, and emotionally compelling. How lucky for us that Mili has written a book on improvisation from her own assured and gracious vantage point. Her approach is accessible, organic, personal, and best of all, inspiring! She takes the fear factor out and provides tools to make improvisation a truly creative and joyful experience.?
?Peter Eldridge, Jazz Singer, Pianist, Composer (New York Voices)

?Creating awareness is at the core of this beautiful material that was very much needed in the vocal jazz field. Here is a book with clever, effectively organized information for all vocalists to develop a practical framework that covers the foundation to find confidence, strength and ultimately freedom as a vocal improviser.
Mili?s music speaks to the heart, overflowing with humanity, joy, and compassion, and this book does the same. Mili traces a clear path, guiding us step by step along the way. She draws on her own experience, which I must say reflects all vocalists? experience, as we walk this fascinating journey of jazz singing.?
?Magos Herrera, GRAMMY-nominated Jazz Singer

?How lucky for all of us that Mili Bermejo put her decades of experience and skill as both performer and teacher into this book. What a gift! Thank you, Mili.?
?Tierney Sutton, Multi-GRAMMY Nominated Jazz Singer
/ Méthodes et pédagogie / Chant / / BERKLEE