Not just another book of scales and patterns, this is a method that trains the mind, the ears and the fingers to work in perfect synchronization to respond instantaneously to any given chord progression. This ability is of paramount importance to any musician who wants to improvise in the jazz idiom. Leading jazz players have used this method for years, but this is the first time it has been published in book form. The author offers a comprehe...
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After a good deal of travail of soul I have attempted to do just that, in fact, I have done more. I have tried to tell substantially what I did do and what I still do, whenever I have the opportunity to direct the instruction of lit tle children. If it sometimes seems blind to you, or halting in meaning, you will under...
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Ardent souls, ready to construct their coming lives, are apt to commit themselves to the fulfilment of their own visions, " wrote George Eliot in Middlemarch. This anxiety to realize an ideal is one of the greatest motive forces in the world, wisely directed, it makes possible great reforms and lasting achievements, but without a rational foundation it degenerates into an aimless unrest w...
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Written by one of today's great jazz educators, this is a system for building great-sounding jazz lines. the relationship of the individual lines to chords and progressions is analyzed. In addition, original saxophone studies integrate these concepts with technical proficiency.
A step-by-step method for learning this rich and powerful style. Takes you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. Includes graded exercises, illustrated tips, plus standard notation and tablature.