This volume is a step-by-step approach to improvisation in jazz, rock and pop music. Based on an easy music which can be practised together with a band on the play-along CD, each chapter comes with brief explanations as to which notes sound best when improvising and why. Solos by experienced musicians serve as examples for the player's own attempts at improvisation.The textbook can also be used by…

Helmut Eisel is regarded as one of the best and most versatile klezmer clarinettists in Europe. There are only few musicians like him who are able to tell stories on their instrument, each of them born of the moment and addressed directly to their audience.'Talking Clarinet' for the first time contains some of Helmut Eisel's improvisations. Faithfully transcribed, they allow fascinating insights i…

Par PROSSER STEVE. Steve Prosser?s Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians is the product of 35 years studying and teaching interval awareness in music. The text provides a step-by-step method for assimilation of, as well as graded exercises for, each interval. Each Chapter concludes with Mastery Exercises and Etudes. After adequate study of the text, the student will be able to hear, recognize, re…

A basic ear training text with examples and suggested self-study curriculum. Armen Donelian, prominent pianist and composer, has condensed the essence of 25 years of teaching experience into Training the Ear. These ear training exercises were created for use in entry-level college classes and for private study. While this book focuses on the specific musical needs of jazz improvisers, students of…

C Instruments. Par WENIGER PETER. This CD (including music booklet) has not especially been worked out for the use in musical education. It is, on the contrary, an audio CD which has been recorded for sale as a trio CD under my name. Mixing the recordings at the studio, however, gave us the idea to offer this CD Legal Paradizer also as a play along CD. For this reason I have never taken a pedagogi…

Par WENIGER PETER. This CD (including music booklet) has not especially been worked out for the use in musical education. It is, on the contrary, an audio CD which has been recorded for sale as a trio CD under my name. Mixing the recordings at the studio, however, gave us the idea to offer this CD Legal Paradizer also as a play along CD. For this reason I have never taken a pedagogic approach to t…

10 great studies in the style and language of bebop. Par SNIDERO JIM. The Essence of Bebopis the new series by critically acclaimed New York saxophonist Jim Snidero. The Essence of Bebop reveals the heart and soul of this groundbreaking jazz style and is the first real 'manual' for mastering bebop. The 10 enjoyable-to-play studies are inspired by Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sonny R…