A practical and imaginative guide to jazz for instrumentalists and pianists of any age from beginners to approximately grade 4 level. Through listening and improvising it explores swing the blues scale jazz harmony and structure and is ideal for players keen to cross over from classical to jazz. The book is designed to be be used alongside instrumental/piano lessons in preparation for Trinity Guildhall/ABRSM exams or in the Key Stage 2/3 classroom. The enhanced CD features audio tracks to play along with and piano accompaniments to download.

A Study In Jazz Accompaniment-This book/CD set presents a clear comprehensive one-step-at-a-time method for learning how to accompany an improvised jazz solo. As a sequel to Hal Crook’s text 'How to Improvise' How to Comp offers precise explanations practical exercises recorded musical examples four play-along tracks and daily practice routines. How to Comp organizes a vast amount of information that helped to make the author’s previous work a major contribution to jazz pedagogy. How to Comp is primarily for intermediate through advanced level players of harmonic instruments e.g. Piano (Keyboard) Guitar and Vibraphone. However drummers bassists and Hornplayers can also benefit from its study. Subject covered include: Voicing construction preferred stock voicings voiceleading constant structure non-harmonic voicings single-note lines rhythmic vocabulary altering the harmonic rhythm motive development dividing and shifting attention supportive and interactive comping styles the soloist’s viewpoint pacing strolling and much more. In How to Comp the author an accomplished jazz trombonist pianist composer arranger and educator looks deeply into the nature and challenge of artistic jazz accompaniment and puts into focus a direct sure path toward mastery.

Strategies for Creativity & Expression-Learn the creative mindset and acquire the technical tools necessary for improvisation. These concepts and exercises will help you to discover a deeper source of music making a greater quality of authenticity and a discerniblechange in sound and phrasing that will enhance your performances of written music. You will learn to play by ear apply musical theory to your instrument and engage creatively with the elements of music giving you a longmenu of musical options. The accompanying recording includes demonstration and play-along tracks. You will learn: tools to connect melodic imagination to your instrument with an enhanced sense of physicality; how to usescales chords modes progressions and other structures in your improvisation; a broad rhythm vocabulary; improvisation techniques for standard progressions such as blues and II V's; to create richer lines by using approachnotes neighbour tones and embellishments into an improvised melodic line.

A Path to Fluency in Odd Meters and Polyrhythms for All Instruments. Par ALLEN DAVE. Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 52 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Etude / Tout Instrument

Jazz primé éducateur Caleb Chapman et multi-Grammy saxophoniste Jeff Coffin ont créé une approche très efficace à l'articulation jazz. Etape par étape, l'approche éprouvée ce livre les détails de Caleb pour maîtriser les bases de l'articulation du jazz, du phrasé et de l'interprétation. L'intérieur de chaque livre sont passionnants avec 17 unités, compositions originales de Coffin Jeff, soigneusement conçues pour renforcer ces concepts. Le CD inclus est à la fois démo et play-along pistes mettant en vedette un quatuor de classe mondiale de Jeff Coffin (saxophone ténor), Victor Wooten (basse), Roy 'FutureMan' Wooten (batterie) et Chris Walters (piano). Cette méthode permet l'approche d'articulation jazz facile et amusant. Suivez les explications, ne sort de l'écoute, de jouer, de pratiquer ce que vous avez entendu, et avant longtemps, vous aussi, sera un musicien de jazz articulé! / Instrument En Ut

More than just a handy reference book this book and CD set provides a complete guide to reading tablature for the beginner guitarist.Tablature offers an intuitive and coherent way of using printed music on the guitarwithout having to learn to read traditional notation - rather than seeing only the notes to be played tablature guides your fingers to exactly the right frets and strings! This comprehensive tutorialincludes:Easy-to-follow diagramsPhotos of correct fingeringsClear explanations of TAB notation with examplesAudio recordings of every example on the accompanying CDA host of hints and tips to helpyoualong the way

What's The Time Mr Wolf? (Volume 3) is the third volume of a theory method for children aged from 6 years old written by Jo Gougat. To be used during the first year of learning this third volume includes the reading notes and rhythms some exercises and some small melodies. This third volume includes the lessons 21 to 30. Accompanied of two CDs it is highly pedagogic including explanations children''s melodies and illustrations. This method also requires the use of a carillon for the child to play and sing along the notes. What's The Time Mr Wolf? is a great method to teach musictheory to young children while simultaneously developing their musical ear.