Jazz Conception

Violin instruction for each song is completely compatible with popular classical violin methods. Par KEEFE JOANNE / MITCHELL KEVIN M.. Includes standards such as 'Ain't Misbehavin,'” jazz classics such as Horace Silver's 'Song for My Father,” and 'Orange Colored Sky,” which Nat King Cole made famous. Violin instruction for each song is pedagogically compatible with popular classical violin methods. At least one piece for each 1-5 level, including two duets - and there's even a jazzy Christmas medley. Note-for-note piano accompaniment and score written out for each song. Audio recording by master violinist and jazz recording star Jeremy Cohen (of Quartet San Francisco fame) performing each piece to piano accompaniment. Piano accompaniment-only tracks also included for students to practice to. Simple, easy to understand introduction to improvisation section allows students to explore basic jazz concepts - invaluable! / Méthode / Recueil / Violon

Play and Learn is an exciting method to learn the art of jazz improvisation -- for individual study or classroom use with an entire jazz ensemble. Through the use of recorded jazz tracks (70 on the CDs included), sequenced concepts involving exercises, licks and mini-charts, plus structured lessons, a student can acquire improvisation skills.

Introduce your beginning group to the concept of call and response (so common in early jazz) with this carefully written easy arrangement of this well-known jazz standard. Like all titles in the Essential Elements Jazz Ensembleseries it includes exercises to help teach style as well as sample written solos.

Here is an easy-to-use set of warm-ups and style studies designed for beginning bands. Each of the 8 short exercises focuses on a specific concept or scale. No complicated instructions or diagrams to bog down rehearsals. Just playthrough 2 or 3 of these each day and watch your band instantly improve.

Par SNIDERO JIM. Jazz Conception is a new and exciting way for players at all levels to learn the language of jazz! Each book features 21 solo etudes based on chord changes to standards and blues.The same 21 etudes transposed and adapted for the main jazz instruments. See and hear how a well known soloist phrases and articulates and play along with or without the soloist.Play along with one of todays finest, swinging New York rhythm sections: Mike LeDonne on piano, Dennis Irwin on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums. Start out fairly easy, then get progressively more difficult.Use the etudes as a bridge to solos of the masters that are usually more complicated and involved.Learn melodies and lines that will give you a solid jazz vocabulary and musicality.Use the book for private lessons, for self-study, or in any combination up to a full jazz ensemble, including flute and clarinet.If you are more advanced you may want to use the book to develop your sight reading abilities, for transcribing the etudes or for just having fun playing along with a great jazz rhythm section. Use as an improvisation study, learning how to construct a swinging, logical solo ? works especially well in combination with the Study Guide.The Jazz Conception Series is also perfectly suited for the class room. It can be used to develop younger students jazz style in a big band or small group. In an improvisation class the teacher can use the etudes as studies in improvisation. The Study Guide provides an analysis of each etude, along with practice assignments for each etude. / Jazz / Recueil / Trombone Basse

Another fabulous volume of exercises and pieces to help understanding of Jazz conception and phrasing. While focusing on technique Lennie Niehaus’ splendid method is one which clearly stresses the fundamental rhythms articulations and phrasings commonly used by Jazz groups. These are the keys that unlock proper Jazz conception and are the elements which usually requires the most time. This method can save you months or even years! The first section of this book consists of another twelve exercises each stressing different rhythmic patterns which reinforce basic elements. The second section consists of ten more tunes which utilise the material initiated withinthe exercises making this an invaluable source for the young saxophone player.

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.

Par SNIDERO JIM. The Jazz Conception Study Guide shows through detailed analysis how to get inside the creative process of creating a jazz solo, it provides a wealth of ideas and practice suggestions for the serious jazz educator and for self-study. Adapted compatible editions are available for alto/baritone, tenor soprano saxophones, trumpet, trombone, flute, clarinet, guitar, piano, bass, and saxophone section. Please note that the mp3 CD that comes with this guide may not work on some (older) CD players./ Recueil / Instruments Mélodiques