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VOLUME 1 - HOW TO PLAY JAZZ & IMPROVISE

VOLUME 1 - HOW TO PLAY JAZZ & IMPROVISE

Format: Book/CD | Price: $15.90 |  Code: V01DS


Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. CD includes blues in Bb and F, four dorian minor tracks, four-measure cadences, cycle of dominants, 24-measure song, II/V7 in all keys. Book includes transposed parts for all instruments. The CD includes Jamey playing exercises from the book. Hear the master clinician show you exactly how it's done! Read more.

VOLUME 24 - MAJOR & MINOR

VOLUME 24 - MAJOR & MINOR

Format: Book/2CDs | Price: $19.95 |  Code: V24DS


For all instrumentalists and vocalists. Great primer for learning basic skills in major and minor keys. Advanced players will want to work on "double-timing", playing "outside" and "side-slipping" in all keys at comfortable tempos. Special tracks have Jamey Aebersold playing various exercises and soloing on his saxophone with actual cuts from Volume 24 so you can hear and see how to use this set. All exercises and sax solos on the demo tracks are transcribed and written out in the book! Pick a different key each day/week/practice. Read more.

VOLUME 54 - MAIDEN VOYAGE

VOLUME 54 - MAIDEN VOYAGE

Format: Book/CD | Price: $15.90 |  Code: V54DS


Standards and workouts for making the transition from playing scales & chords. An excellent resource for beginning improv. Features slower tempos, easier changes, and specific tips on approaching soloing. Scales written for every chord change. Read more.

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Maiden Voyage Jazz Solos For Alto Sax - Book/CD

Maiden Voyage Jazz Solos For Alto Sax - Book/CD

Format: Book/CD | Price: $17.95 |  Code: MVAS


Due in stock mid-September! Grammy winner Lennie Niehaus with the great jazz saxphonist and educator Greg Fishman for a set of exciting jazz solos written for the intermediate Alto sax player. These 14 jazz solos were written to be played with Jamey's popular "Volume 54, Maiden Voyage" play-a-long and, since they are by Lennie, you know they swing and are fun to play. Read more.

Maiden Voyage Jazz Solos For Tenor Sax - Book/CD

Maiden Voyage Jazz Solos For Tenor Sax - Book/CD

Format: Book/CD | Price: $17.95 |  Code: MVTS


This book teams up Grammy winner Lennie Niehaus with the great jazz saxphonist and educator Greg Fishman for a set of exciting jazz solos written for the intermediate Tenor sax player. These 14 jazz solos were written to be played with Jamey's popular "Volume 54, Maiden Voyage" play-a-long and, since they are by Lennie, you know they swing and are fun to play. Read more.

New Publications from Advance Music

Jazz Arranging / Jazz Arrangement

Jazz Arranging / Jazz Arrangement

Format: Book | Price: $32.95 |  Code: JA


This book guides the reader step by step from the grassroots to more advanced and complex ways of writing. Explanations are thorough and cover the most frequently asked questions by students as well as the issues arising when working in an artistic situation. Includes many musical examples! Read more.

Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians

Intervallic Ear Training for Musicians

Format: Book/2CDs | Price: $38.50 |  Code: IETM


The product of 35 years studying and teaching interval awareness in music. 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, read, and write music through the use of musical intervals. Read more.

Melodic Improvising

Melodic Improvising

Format: Book/CD | Price: $32.95 |  Code: MI


This method book/CD set is about understanding, developing and incorporating the art of melody into Jazz Improvisation. Topics discussed in the book are demonstrated by the author on the CD allowing you to hear, practice and then play for yourself the principles of melodic improvising. Read more.

POPULAR AEBERSOLD PUBLICATIONS

Patterns For Improvisation

Patterns For Improvisation

Format:  | Price: $9.95 |  Code: PI


One of the world's most popular patterns books, many jazz greats have fond memories of practicing from this book! An exhaustive collection of improvisational jazz patterns in various meters and feels. Comments and suggestions by the author, a legendary composer, arranger, conductor and instrumentalist. This is a very popular book because it helps spell out some of the basic building blocks of the jazz language. Regarded by many jazz teachers as one of the essential texts for their students. Read more.

Effortless Mastery

Effortless Mastery

Format:  | Price: $20.00 |  Code: EM


Playing music should be as simple and natural as drawing a breath, yet most musicians are hindered by self-consciousness, apprehension, self-doubt, and stress. Before we can truly express our inner self, we must first learn to be at peace and overcome the distractions that can make performance difficult. Kenny's remarkable work deals directly with these hindrances, and presents ways to let our natural creative powers flow freely with minimal stress and effort. Read more.

Intermediate Jazz Improvisation

Intermediate Jazz Improvisation

Format:  | Price: $34.95 |  Code: IJI


All aspiring jazz players find themselves at a point in their development where they are ready to go from playing "right notes" to actually playing meaningful solos. Making this transition can be as frustrating as it is essential. INTERMEDIATE JAZZ IMPROVISATION is for everyone wishing to bridge the gap between playing scales, chords and licks to playing realistic, flowing jazz lines! Read more.

Target And Approach Tones

Target And Approach Tones

Format:  | Price: $9.95 |  Code: TAT


Learn the secret to playing long, flowing musical lines that move from one chord change to the other in a smooth, seamless manner. This book explains "approach tones" (a tone or series of tones leading to a chord tone of the next chord - usually by a whole or half step) and "target tones" (tones that resolve your phrases and outline harmony). All great jazz players use this technique to create forward motion, tension/release, and play musical solos that sound "right." Read more.

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