Advance Music

This beautiful balladesque piece was originally written for the Hannover Radio Philharmonic, featuring Ack van Royen (flügelhorn) and Thomas Clausen (piano). The composer wrote out both solo parts. Ac...

The purpose of the study recorded in this book is to focus on the work of the members of the trombone section that was at the heart of Ellington's acclaimed orchestra from its beginnings until Ellingt...

Imagine that you had an opportunity to ask your favorite jazz trombone player any question. Now imagine that you had over 30 of these great musicians in one place, captured here, giving you their advi...

10 snare drum solos plus two pieces for snare drum and bass drum. Musically outstanding collection, written by a master drummer who has performed and recorded with Charles Mingus and other jazz greats...

The Book of Silence - For All Musical Instruments is an innovative, one of a kind, method book. Designed to help in the development of rhythmic reading skills, this book's unique and effective method...

Precision is the focus of this book of exercises. With more than 80 exercises on rhythm and metre, Mike Nielsen prepares the ground for an intensive rhythmic training, from the timing of eighth notes...

Exploration in Rhythm, Rhythmic Phrasing in Improvisation will develop and expand the rhythmic palette and vocabulary of the improviser and composer. Working on these concepts, players should begin to...

Global Groove is a practical rhythm compendium. Rolf Zielke, longstanding lecturer at the renowned Berlin Jazz Institute, introduces the world of uneven metres through 40 pieces from around the world...

While the primary focus of Advanced Rhythms in Improvisation is on polyrhythms, the book also covers other additional important rhythms that are useful for the improviser. Extensive syncopated rhythmi...

This is the definitive study of chord progressions of hundreds of carefully chosen tunes from the jazz musician's repertoire, comparing them, linking them together by commonalities, and codifying harm...

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...

Gehörbildungstraining mit Skalen, Intervallen, Melodien, Spannungstönen, Progressions, u.m., 136 S., mit 2 CDs. This is a real ear training method that presents in an organized fashion a collection of...

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 wel...

This is a primer in jazz theory, intended to prepare the student for the serious study of jazz improvisation, arrangement and composition. The focus is on the harmonic language of jazz, especially the...

Le Livre de la Theorie du Jazz' by Mark Levine is one of the most comprehensive studies of jazz harmony and theory ever written. It takes the student from the most basic jazz concepts through bebop an...

Jazz harmony, as taught at the Berklee College of Music is based on the so called Chord Scale Theory. This method-further developed-is now available as a comprehensive textbook. Emerged from practice...

Inspired by the music of Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, The Yellowjackets and others, this text is a clear, concise study of contemporary harmonic progressions that are created and derived from the melod...

This book is devoted to the forgotten chords from harmonic minor and harmonic major. As far as that goes, it is addressed to the advanced musician who already has the theoretical basis at his disposal...

The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of...

This Harmonic System complementary to traditional harmony aims at making the contemporary harmonic language effortlessly accessible to everyone interested. Unlike other harmonic systems or treatises o...

Many different possibilities for harmonizing the same melody are illustrated and analysed, using techniques by such influential arrangers and composers as Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Oliver Nelso...

This book evolved from 40 years of teaching jazz composition and arranging plus 50 years of personal writing experience in the professional field. It is, therefore, a comprehensive study, covering pre...

...Something Borrowed, Something Blue is a broad survey of the wider principles of harmony, form, adaptation, and developmental technique underlying jazz composition in its various instrumental format...

The goal of this book is to show the student the means to develop latent creative abilities by offering the unfettered environment of the chromatic-modal system and free asymmetric form. The freedom o...

The goal of Volume 2 of 'Modal Jazz Composition & Harmony' is to continue the dissemination of information that presents a path of study for the aspiring jazz composer. Where Volume 1 of the book emph...