Enrich your playing with advanced jazz harmonies. This workbook will help you play with a contemporary jazz sound, interpret leadsheets, and use upper-structure triads to expand your comping palette....
This book/DVD pack teaches expressive, virtuosic, and healthy piano technique for contemporary and classical styles. Through integrated written directions and video examples, you will see exactly how...
Improvisation is the art of real-time composition. This book will guide you through exploring some of the many possible scale choices that can be used with chords and chord progressions, giving you a...
Learn to improvise using the techniques pioneered by piano greats Lenny Tristano and Dave McKenna. This methodical approach to learning the art of solo jazz piano improvisation will free your creative...
Improvise on the piano in Latin music settings. This book breaks down the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic techniques used by the greatest artists of Cuban piano muysic, such as Rubén Gonzáles (Buena Vi...
Learn to play the Djembe. This complete method by Michael Markus will teach you how to produce a good sound, develop a healthy technique and learn the essential concepts, sounds and rhythms of West Af...
Learn to play jazz harmonies and rhythms on the flute. This book combines Joe Viola's two classic texts of the Technique of the Flute series: Chord Studies and Rhythm Studies. You will learn melody, h...
Expand the creative breadth of your soloing! The step-by-step exercises and explanations in this tried-&-true resource will help you develop your ear and improve your technique. You'll learn the intim...
Learn to play traditional Irish melodies on the cello. This book covers traditional articulations, concepts, and practices of Irish music, many traditionally for fiddle, but here adapted to the cello....
Develop jazz solos using melodic fragments from traditional fiddle tunes. These etudes show how melodic cells can be used to create extended improvisations. In each example, fragments of a traditional...