ISBN 9781513459295. 8.75x11.75 inches.

According to musician and musicologist Gunther Schuller, 75% of all harmonic movement in jazz consists of ii-V-I progressions. Consequently, for the jazz improvisor, it is extremely important to be capable of playing a coherent phrase based on any member note of the ii chord and its extensions, in any key. In this book, music educator and world-renowned jazz saxophonist, Lukas Gabric focuses on helping you develop this essential skill. The five strategies outlined in Jazz Course for All Instruments are specifically designed to enhance your vocabulary and fluency as a jazz improviser. In a key segment, Gabric explains how longer phrases can be generated by combining minimal source materials. He also seeks to further your transposition and memorization skills as well as instrumental techniqueall of which are required for effective improvisation. For those familiar with other styles of music, this reasoned, incremental approach could well open the door to the exciting world of improvised jazz.

Addnew life to your piano repertoire, piano recital, and next concert withPassionate Piano Moments, #1 new release in New Age Music on Amazon. Get the PDF digital download version here onSheet Music Plus. Perfect gift for the pianist in your life. On sale here until 12/31/2020. Listen to the music inPassionate Piano Moments on Spotify - https://bit.ly/PassionatePianoMoments_Spotify.

PassionatePiano Moments is a 155-page collection of emotional, dramatic piano music forintermediate to advanced pianists. Passionate Piano Moments will add new lifeto your piano repertoire, recital, or next concert with its 10 impassionedpiano solos, 1 two piano duet, and 1 four piano quartet. The music was composedby Tito Abeleda. Each piece reflects the emotions he was feeling at the timeeach piece was written. Passionate Piano Moments includes 1) Drifting; 2) DyingBreath; 3) Missing You; 4) Beautiful Memories; 5) a new intimate yet cinematicarrangement of Silent Night, Holy Night; 6) Forever Touched by Your Love; 7)Running, Searching; 8) Phoenix Rising; 9) a new dramatic arrangement of O HolyNight; 10) Tempus Fugit; 11) Descensus ad Infero for two pianos including scoreplus parts; and 12) Procession in D Minor for four pianos also including scoreplus parts.

Awardwinning Film/TV composer Rob Pottorf writes in the book's Foreword"...This book is truly one of a kind. It will inspire, as he takes you notonly through his collection of music, but into his own journey of creating.Mozart was the guy who said, ?Neither a lofty degree of intelligence norimagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love thatis the soul of genius.? And so my friend Tito has made with love, thiscollection of music."

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?The Jazz Improvisation Workshop? is an entry level music theory workbook for the intermediate and advance student who wishes to learn the theoretical components that are applied in the performance of jazz. The musical "mechanics" of music are the essence of its contents. Scales and chords of all forms are shown and explained in a simplified manner and comprehensive manner. Areas of music theory such as the Cycle of Fifths and the theory of Chord Substitution are also explained in detail.

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ISBN 9781619119345.

This method book is designed to help intermediate to advanced jazz students incorporate classic jazz vocabulary into their original improvisations. Using a series of standard and modern chord progressions, guitarist Davy Mooney provides several short passages that are meant to be played exactly as written within an otherwise improvised solo; students are expected to adapt this written material to their own purposes by improvising into and out of it.In an effort to overcome the disconnect between developing a unique sound and learning the language of past jazz masters, the author eloquently analyzes several phrases and chord changes and comments on various aspects of improvisation, referencing the styles and specific recordings of many outstanding jazz artists. This is the method that Mooney used as a student to personalize his own jazz vocabulary and learn to express himself within the context of the jazz tradition.Mooney proves he has both the vocabulary and the chops to deliver generously repeated guitar/bass/drums backup tracks for student use; he then demonstrates the method by providing transcriptions of his own improvisations, incorporating the same phrases and chord progressions required of the student. The firm message conveyed by this book is that, ayou can do it too.aWritten in standard notation only. Includes access to online audio.

An irresistible elemental power emanates from the eleven pieces of the Musica Ricercata composed between 1951 and 1953. The early piano work by the famous Hungarian Gyorgy Ligeti arose from experiments with minimalist structures of rhythm and sound in order to build a New Music from nothing, so to speak, according to Ligeti himself. The effect that he achieves with just a few tones is inspiring. In the first piece, he uses one tone to which is added another tone at the end. In the second piece, the music consists of three tones, in the third of four, up to twelve tones in the eleventh piece. The second piece of the Music Ricercata served as soundtrack for the film Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick.

Matthias Weckmann, born in Niederdorla near Muhlhausen (Thuringia) in 1616 and died in Hamburg in 1674, was trained as a musician by Heinrich Schutz in Dresden among others. He worked as an organist in Dresden (Schlosskirche) and Hamburg (St. Jakobi). It is particularly for the Jakobi organ that he wrote his elaborate and virtuoso organ works. Our new edition in the renowned series 'Masters of the North German Organ School' faithfully transfers the works which survived in letter tablature, providing a reliably edited urtext. Volume 1 contains the cantus firmus-based works, 8 authentic verse cycles with 2-7 movements each in which chorale melodies such as 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her', 'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ)' or the 'Magnificat' are varied, as well as a cycle on 'Ach wir armen Sunder' attributed to Weckmann. Volume 2 proves him to a master of concertante organ music, containing 3 works with pedal (Fantasia, Fuga and Praeambulum in D) as well as several moderately difficult works to be played on manuals only (6 toccatas, 5 canzonas). Reliable standard edition of the music by one of the great (North) German organ masters.

My father succumbed to lung cancer in 2007. Setting this poem helped me
through the grieving process. Bill Merideth was not a musician by trade, but did
enjoy playing the guitar every now and again. The accompaniment found in the
opening section represents some of the chords that he would strum in his recliner
after a hard week of work.
As the piece progresses, the accompaniment becomes more complex representing
the extensive chemotherapy that may have extended my father's life, but certainly
changed him. Finally, as the text brings us closer to death in the final stanza, the
accompaniment is now absent, representing my father's last days in hospice where
he could no longer care for himself.
I certainly believe in the healing power of music and hope that this setting brings
comfort and peace to you as it continues to do so for me.

Please feel free to share your experiences with this piece at tylermerideth.com.

Tyler