The first book to teach students to start soloing using rhythms instead of scales and chords. In a step-by-step fashion, Rhythm First! builds up the student's library of rhythmic figures and has them...
This ground-breaking 80 page book/CD package will allow you or your students to use Blues scales to create meaningful solos before you master all the scales of a tune. Perfect for beginners and interm...
All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to be complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal task....
The most comprehensive guide for rhythm changes ever published, offering a wealth of information for beginners and professionals alike. Written in the language of the working musician and clearly lai...
For all instrumentalists -- single - line writing, not full piano score. Over 150 pages of Chick's finest solos.
Following in the footsteps of Rayburn Wright's seminal work, Inside the Score, this book gives a guided tour into the techniques and musical concepts in these six scores by masters of large ensemble j...
In Playing for Singers veteran Mike Greensill brings his many years of accompanying experience to bear in exploring, in detail, the in's and out's of the accompanist's art as it applies to the perform...
* For beginning to advanced players, in any style of music.* Includes a great play-along CD to practice with. Each track has one version with, and one without, the author playing the tune or exercise....
Over 300 pages with complete chapters on intervals and triads, the major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian chords, adding notes to 3-note voicings, tritone substitution, left-hand v...
Jazz pianists have been trained to use one-octave, thumb-under fingerings, based on the Western classical tradition. But this system falls short when dealing with the wider intervals of the pentatonic...