1630038DK - Bert Ligon - Comprehensive Technique For Jazz Musicians, Second Edition



Home	Shopping Cart	Contact	Search

Bert Ligon - Comprehensive Technique For Jazz Musicians, Second Edition

Click on the image above to see a larger version.

Bert Ligon - Comprehensive Technique For Jazz Musicians, Second Edition

323 pages, Item number 1630038DK, $29.95
Despite the meaning of the word "improvisation," jazz musicians require a great deal of practice and preparation to successfully improvise. This book is ideal for teaching you methods and techniques to successfully improvise on your own.

This is not another scale or jazz patterns book. These exercises are based on the improvisations of great jazz artists. Musical ideas are extracted from these excerpts and developed into exercises designed to prepare you to play passages using the extracted idea. The ideas are developed using common compositional devices, thus training you in the art of composition and in the art of developing an idea. These skills, exercises and compositional techniques are then applied to etudes and put into useful musical settings.

This book will help accomplish the following objectives: 1) Playing the exercises will develop physical technique, muscle memory, and mental skills; 2) Having the exercises juxtaposed with musical examples expedites the connections and reinforces the practical function of the exercises; 3) Thinking through the development of the exercises, seeing from where the exercises were extracted and applying common compositional devices to the extracted ideas, will help you acquire the technique of composing "spontaneously."

Product Format: Instruction Book

Publisher: This piece was published by Houston Publishing, Inc..

This product has been chosen as a Director's Choice by our staff of instructors.

This product has a difficulty rating of 1 on a scale of 1 through 6, with 6 being hardest.

How to purchase this item: To purchase "Bert Ligon - Comprehensive Technique For Jazz Musicians, Second Edition", just click on the "Click to Buy!" button above. You will then have the option of placing your order online or ordering by mail, fax or phone.

Return Policy: This product may be returned within 30 days of purchase for a full refund, excluding shipping charges.

Other Images:

Front Cover

Front Cover Image 1
(354kb)

Example Pages

Example Page 1
(134kb)

Example Page 2
(129kb)

Table of Contents Page 1
(107kb)

Table of Contents Page 2
(156kb)

Table of Contents Page 3
(149kb)

Table of Contents Page 4
(128kb)

Quick Search

Manage My Account

Another product you might enjoy...

Gary Campbell - Expansions, Second Edition - Method
46 pages, Item number 1040175DK, $9.95

Written by noted jazz artist and teacher Gary Campbell, "Expansions" is a complete instruction book which will help you to develop new material for jazz improvisation. This superb book is divided into eight sections. They are: 1) How to practice patterns; 2) Scales, including pentatonic flat 3, pentatonic flat 6, augmented, and tritone; 3) Triad variations, including diatonic triads and triad pairs; 4) Lower neighbor tones; 5) Interval sets; 6) Diatonic intervals and chords from scales containing fewer than seven notes; 7) Chord scale exercise; and 8) General chord/scale cross reference chart. This would be an excellent book for an intermediate or advanced player, that wants to become better at improvisation.

PianoSpot.com, FluteSpot.com, ClarinetSpot.com, SaxSpot.com, TrumpetSpot.com, TromboneSpot.com, BassoonSpot.com
OboeSpot.com, HornSpot.com, ViolinSpot.com, DrumSpot.com, GuitarSpot.com, HarmonicaSpot.com, RecorderSpot.com
DulcimerSpot.com, VocalSpot.com, KaraokeSpot.com, AudioCDSpot.com, MusicGiftSpot.com, BandSpot.com

Copyright © 2008 Encore Music Company, Inc.