Learn the art of jazz vocal improvisation! This book will help you hear, understand and apply jazz theory so that you can solo as a complete musician?in the same way that instrumentalists do. Each lesson offers a core musical concept related to harmony, melody, and rhythm, integrating skills such as conducting and analysis. All concepts are reinforced with practical exercises. The accompanying audio tracks demonstrate techniques and let you practice improvising along with a piano accompaniment.
You will learn to:
Develop your sense of timing and swing
Understand jazz harmony, such as tensions and non-diatonic chords, as well as chord progressions such as II V and cycle V progressions, and use harmony as your basis for creating expressive solos
Navigate song forms, such as AABA, blues forms, turnarounds, and other common jazz structures
Improve your ear for jazz harmony through studying intervals and chord progressions, and by memorizing emblematic jazz melodic patterns
Create expressive vocal lines that work well over jazz chords and integrate well within the context of a jazz ensemble
?Mili Bermejo?s Vocal Jazz Improvisation is the most comprehensive vocal book I have ever seen on improvisation. Her years of research and her wisdom and artistry leave no stones unturned. I would recommend this book to instrumentalists as well, to develop their ears and breadth of expression.?
?Jerry Bergonzi, Jazz Saxophonist, Composer, Author, Educator

?I have been a huge fan of Mili as an artist for many years now, and have admired her impeccable skills as a teacher for just as long. Seeing Mili perform in duo with Dan Greenspan is one of the great wonders of the world. They make voice and bass seem like an orchestra, harmonically rich and complete, and emotionally compelling. How lucky for us that Mili has written a book on improvisation from her own assured and gracious vantage point. Her approach is accessible, organic, personal, and best of all, inspiring! She takes the fear factor out and provides tools to make improvisation a truly creative and joyful experience.?
?Peter Eldridge, Jazz Singer, Pianist, Composer (New York Voices)

?Creating awareness is at the core of this beautiful material that was very much needed in the vocal jazz field. Here is a book with clever, effectively organized information for all vocalists to develop a practical framework that covers the foundation to find confidence, strength and ultimately freedom as a vocal improviser.
Mili?s music speaks to the heart, overflowing with humanity, joy, and compassion, and this book does the same. Mili traces a clear path, guiding us step by step along the way. She draws on her own experience, which I must say reflects all vocalists? experience, as we walk this fascinating journey of jazz singing.?
?Magos Herrera, GRAMMY-nominated Jazz Singer

?How lucky for all of us that Mili Bermejo put her decades of experience and skill as both performer and teacher into this book. What a gift! Thank you, Mili.?
?Tierney Sutton, Multi-GRAMMY Nominated Jazz Singer
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A practical guide to the benefits of singing. Explore the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and ultimately life-changing benefits that singing can bring. Eat Sleep Sing takes you on a fun and informative journey as you uncover the secrets of singing. This inspiring workbook will help you get the best out of your voice and encourage everyone to sing. Written by professional singer, teacher and composer, Stacey DeLooze, Eat Sleep Sing features easy-to-follow practical exercises, a step-by-step warm-up guide and expert advice, and is suitable for non-singers, beginners, trained musicians and teachers alike. Discover the chemical responses to singing that reduce stress and encourage a good night?s sleep. Master exercises to gain stronger breath control and a happier mind. Explore the myriad ways singing connects us to each other and the world around us. Unlock tips to boost your confidence and keep your memory sharp and agile. Featuring beautiful illustrations which can be coloured-in to support mindfulness, tongue-twisters to practise, as well as a mood-tracker to help monitor your progress, there is no requirement to read music.

Level 1-This unique program designed by renowned vocalist/instructor Breck Alan covers techniques for men and women who are serious about starting a singing career. The lessons begin with basics like how to relax your body when singing how breath control really works and how to find and fully develop your own singing range. You'll learn warm-up routines that will bring your voice to its highest performance level while maintaining vocal health. You'll develop techniques for coordinating your voice to sing in all styles from the studio to the stage.Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learningexperience links with instructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.

Today is Fuzzy Monster's birthday! As Gaby, Theo, Daffodil, and other neighborhood friends prepare for a surprise party, our colorful cast of characters learns many important life lessons. After a cheerful opening theme song, eight scenes and unison songs focus on good judgment, kindness, courage, perseverance, responsibility, self-discipline, integrity, and respect. A few optional stage puppets will steal the show and add to the fun! Enhanced CD includes PDFs of student pages and cover art. Approximately 35 minutes. Recommended for grades three and up. / Voix

Teach your students to sight-sing with confidence!Set 2 of this popular series expands sight-singing skills to the Keys of D and G with a step-by-step approach through six lessons in each key signature that culminate with a special song students will be able to sight-sing!Helpful Teacher Tips focus on the music concepts being presented provide a suggested teaching sequence to use when presenting each exercise and give keys to sight-singing success. Two student reproducible pages filled with sight-reading exercises are provided for each lesson.After students have perfected the exercises a cappella on their own they can reinforce the learningprocess by performing with the rhythm accompaniment tracks on the enclosed CD. The enhanced CD also offers performance/accompaniment tracks for the 2 songs included plus PDFs of all the sight-singing exercises for projection options. For teachers who are new to this series this material starts at the beginning and assumes no previous sight-singing knowledge.You can start right now!Also available: Sight-Sing a Song: Set 1 (HL09971136) that covers the Keys of C and F.

Adventure Story and Songs-Now you can bring the musical story of ?The Quest? to life on stage with the Teacher Edition/CD that includes piano accompaniments reproducible songsheets and story text choreography and instrumental-only CD tracks! For extra value the Performance Kit/CD provides the Teacher Edition/Accompaniment CD and Storybook/Listening CD. A quiet day for young Jason and his dog Boliver suddenly changes when Jason receives a mysterious package in the mail. He opens it only to discover an emerald with the word ?Quest? written on it. Is this a clue for what's to come? Join Jason and Boliver as they are swept into a Quest that lands them on a huge desert where they meet the giantEyes-Ack a beautiful princess named Portia and her rainbow-colored cat DeTail who show Jason and Boliver a new world of beauty and adventure. Read and sing-along with this marvelous story of adventure and learning. The story is available in soft-cover with full-color illustrations and a listening CD with 5 songs and author narration. Available: Teacher Edition/Accompaniment CD Storybook/Listening CD Performance Kit (Teacher Ed/Acc CD and Storybook/ListeningCD). Duration: ca. 30 minutes. Suggested for grades 3-6.

Learn to sing harmony like a pro! This private lesson from the expert instructors at Hollywood's Musicians Institute covers: building your own harmonies; reading music; scales chords and intervals; stage and studio techniques; drills for the advanced singer; and more. Includes 18 real songs in a variety of styles (pop rock blues funk soul & country) and 99 full-demo tracks. The tracks can be accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left orright.

Have you always wanted to be able to sing? Then this book is for you – because it's never too late! This all-in-one tutor book covers approximately two years of singing lessons and includes essential music theory and technical skills for beginners. The learning process is broken down into bite-sized manageable chunks with two CDs containing a wealth of music from classical and folk to pop and jazz to sing along to. Additional piano accompaniments to the songs are downloadable from this website.Packed with information teaching advice and top tips from the experts this beginner singer’s method is perfect for those keen to begin singing butaren’t sure where to start!