Advanced Rhythms in Improvisation

Suitable for all musicians Intro To Polyrhythms is one of the best methods for learning advanced rhythm polyrhythm and metric/harmonic superimposition. This comprehensive guide looks at rhythm through amagnifying glass and enables the student to see sing and hear various subdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. This book can be used by any and all instrumentalists and will greatly improve the student's improvisationalability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogue.The book is complete with general exercises as well as specific ones for pianists bassists and drummers; an online video with demonstrations of all thematerial from the book; improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg; transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazz forms; musicalexamples which can be watched and used as a play along. The #1 method for learning advanced rhythm polyrhythm and metric/harmonic superimpositionWill greatlyimprove the student's improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmic musical dialogueStudents will learn to look at rhythm through a magnifying glass in order to hear various subdivisions andgroupings of subdivisionsStudents will learn how to make core rhythms into core grooves and use beat displacement to alter these core grooves.

The Quintessential Rut-Buster 2-DVD Set-Guitar players love to jam. Call out a key lay down a one or two chord vamp the rhythm section kicks in and everybody starts to get their groove on - simple enough for seasoned players with monster improv chops and big ears.Not so easy for most intermediate and early advanced players who tend to run out of ideas and struggle communicating musically with the other members of the band.This 2-DVD set illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps.You'll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas in a vamp or jam setting with the otherband members.The DVDs cover creative devices like melodic patterns call and response stutter picking guide tones horizontal lines tone targeting muffled arpeggios chromatics expressions passing tones and other techniques for generating ideas on the fly.You'll also learn how to develop ideas around unusual scales like the Super Locrian Bartok minor and harmonic minor scales.Rhythm and comping are also covered with equal emphasis; clave rhythms inversions rhythmic alteration quartal harmony bubble parts chord punches and how to clearly communicate and then lock up with the band is demonstrated in detail.

Par ASCH GLENN / REINER DAVID. For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists, from blues to bebop, from jug band to jazzgrass, from big-band swing to Texas swing. Tunes represent the styles of Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, Mark O'Connor, Benny Thomasson, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Darol Anger. Helpful jazz theory sections with exercises alternate with tunes that show how the theory works inpractice. This book has two objectives: first, to present a broad, roughly chronological sampling of major jazz violinists and the styles associated with them, and secondly, to introduce the basics of jazz theory as applied to the violin. Whether consciously or intuitively, through critical listening or by practicing jazz patterns and exercises, the more knowledge of jazz you acquire, the better you will be able to think about the content of your playing without being bound by technical and theoretical aspects. This anthology was written to help provide that foundation. Interspersed with pragmatic jazz theory lessons, you'll find 28 original tunes in the style of various jazz violin luminaries. The book ends with an extensive discography of recommended jazz recordings with a violin focus. Mandolinists as well as other instrumentalists will find a wealth of useful information in this outstanding collection. Delightful broadcast-quality recordings of the repertoire are available online. Includes access to online audio. Written for intermediate to advanced violinists. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz / Recueil / Violon

Mark Dziuba helps you become a great blues guitarist by expanding your groove palette. You'll learn about shuffle and straight rhythms, the 12/8 feel, triplets, blues forms, the minor blues, and various blues rhythm tricks, including chord fills, using accents and mutes, sliding into chords, and open-string drones. Additionally, Dziuba explores harmonic concepts, like chord extensions and advanced voicings, plus rhythms from music beyond the blues---the Charleston and Latin montuno. The included DVD is hosted by Dziuba and features live demonstrations of the examples in the book. About the Author A performer and teacher for over 30 years, Mark Dziuba directs the Jazz Studies Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he serves as a tenured professor. His workshops on guitar styles and improvisation have been featured at the International Guitar Festival (Bath, England), the National Guitar Workshop (various U.S. and European locations), and the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (Montana). He has taught and performed with many legendary guitarists, including John Scofield, John Abercrombie, John Jorgenson, Tal Farlow, Larry Carlton, Trey Anastasio, Julian Lage, and Reeves Gabrels. / Guitare

This is one of four level-one books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level One For advanced beginners- Hands play together- Whole note half note quarter note dotted half note- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent- 3/4 4/4 and 5/4 time signatures- Key signatures up to one sharp and one flat- Repeat 8va tie fermata ritardando atempoSkills Books:round out the comprehensive course of study. Paced to enhance progress in the corresponding Repertoire and Etudes Albums the module structure ensures a smooth integration of Ear-Training Sight-Reading and Technic. ? Ear-training: reinforces the auraldevelopment already achieved through the repertoire and improvisation etudes; ? Sight-reading: time-effective module structure leads to regular practice the single most important contributing factor to success;? Technic: provides a structured and measured approach; prepares for the challenges ahead.About the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional pianistic and musical skills through music in contemporary popular styles;? be motivated to practice by working on

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Archive Edition Number of pages : 136 Presents piano theory with technical and creative ideas to enhance your keyboard knowledge and improvisation skills through practical approaches and applications. To benefit most from this book, you should already be comfortable with reading notation on the grand staff and should have an understanding of written rhythms. Each step-by-step lesson has ideas to practice, which may appear in the form of exercises, suggestions, or mixed with theory, prompting you to be creative. Through these lessons, you will discover how to become a more creative player with chords in a rhythm section setting, going beyond just playing what is written on the page. You will also learn how to utilize scales in improvisation. This book has been designed to help beginners and intermediate students build a strong foundation and enlarge their horizon, and to help advanced players fill in gaps in their skills. Online audio available.

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Saxophone, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ?riffs? that make up Blues sax playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale, in Andrew?s opinion, the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ?straight? and ?swing? rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book, section 1 contains basic Blues riffs, section 2 contains Rhythm

As music education progresses children begin to learn the Saxophone increasingly early often as young as eight years old. Méthode De Saxophone is intended for those young beginners for whom other methods are toocomplex advanced or difficult to understand. Being simple and versatile this method is also suitable for prospective saxophonists of any age. A CD featuring 52 minutes of Piano backing tracks is included with thisvolume. From the second week of study students will be developing close musical listening with a diverse repertoire of songs dances classical and romantic music from the past and present as well asimprovisational skills. The CD will especially help with this getting the student experience playing with another (recorded) musician from the beginning. The method will also introduce learning pieces by heart and varying theexercises in different ways with lower or higher octaves differing rhythms etc. A teacher can use their discretion to develop exercises further or repeat them or omit them altogether depending on thestudent's ability. With Méthode De Saxophone young beginners will quickly become accustomed to analysis musical reflection and the association of mastery over an instrument with musicalenjoyment.

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms harmony and melodies  Messe De La Pentecôte is no exception to the composer's popular distinctive style. Composed in 1949-1950 the Organ Mass is thought to be based on twenty years of improvising at Saint Trinity Church in Paris where Messiaen was organist. Messe De La Pentecôte is in five movements; 1) Entrance 2) Offertory 3) Consecration 4) Communion and 5) Recessional. Influences of birdsong are depicted within the piece reflecting the composer's interest inornithology. The first movement also contains the use of Greek rhythms. Messe De La Pentecôte is essential to all advanced organists seeking to expand and vary their repertoire.

15 of New York's hottest session and club percussionists lay down solos over five songs that span the full range of the Latin music style. Hosted by renowned timbalero Ralph Irizanny this showcase DVD is ideal for percussionists of all levels with beginner intermediate and advanced solos featuring the best of the scene including Pedro Martinez Samuel Torres Orlando Vega and many more. Play along to each solo working your way up from beginner to expert. Alternatively turn the solos off and provide your own improvisations based on the riffs and rhythms presented right here!

Contracting and Expanding Time Within Form-The follow-up to Intro to Polyrhythms a method for learning advanced rhythm polyrhythm and metric/harmonic superimposition looks at rhythm through a magnifying glass and enables the student to see sing and hear varioussubdivisions and groupings of subdivisions. This book can be used by any and all instrumentalists. Metric Modulations will greatly improve the student's improvisational ability to create and respond to rhythmicmusical dialogue. The book is complete with general exercises for all instrumentalists as well as specific exercises for pianists bassists and drummers. The included online video demonstrates of all the material from thebook including improvised examples by Ari Hoenig and Johannes Weidenmueller in duo as well as trio with Aaron Goldberg. Transcriptions on how to harmonically navigate through polyrhythm inside standard jazzforms are included. The video musical examples can be watched and played along to. Standard notation. Includes access to online video.

KLEZMER STUDIES Level 1 / 20 ? Each player will gradually achieve and discover the principles of Klezmer music. Simple rhythms and melodies, changes in tone, major and minor scale phrases, accelerating parts, ornamentations, typical Klezmer characteristic interpretations and style. This study in 4 parts [ Easy, Medium, Advanced, Superior studies - for the Virtuoso ] is supported by sheets accompaniment thus allowing all musicians to study this wonderful style of music and add the experience of this course to their skills as musicians.