SKU: AP.1-ADV14415

ISBN 9783954810437. UPC: 805095144154. English.

How do you learn to improvise? Greg Yasinitsky's new method for beginners, Improvisation 101: Major, Minor, and Blues, has been thoroughly tried and tested in numerous workshops and classes. His method is based on easy-to-play pieces that each introduce, one at a time, the building blocks of jazz, rock, and pop music. Each tune comes with sample solos, improvised and written out by experienced musicians. Step-by-step your skills will develop, from understanding the theory, to copying and elaborating, to playing and improvising freely. The included play-along CD provides you with both melody and play-along tracks, as well as sample solos for each piece. Improvisation 101: Major, Minor, and Blues is available in compatible editions for B-flat, E-flat, C, and bass clef instruments. Further editions for double bass / electric bass, guitar, and piano also feature very easy bass lines, with chords and accompaniments (guitar edition includes TAB).

SKU: AP.1-ADV14413

ISBN 9783954810413. UPC: 805095144130. English.

How do you learn to improvise? Greg Yasinitsky's new method for beginners, Improvisation 101: Major, Minor and Blues has been thoroughly tried and tested in numerous workshops and classes. His method is based on easy-to-play pieces that each introduces, one at a time, the building blocks of jazz, rock and pop music. Each tune comes with sample solos, improvised and written out by experienced musicians. Step by step your skills will develop, from understanding the theory, to copying and elaborating, to playing and improvising freely. The included play-along recording provides you with both melody and playalong tracks, as well as sample solos for each piece.

SKU: AP.1-ADV7637

UPC: 805095076370. English.

Gregory W. Yasinitsky (b. 1953), Coordinator of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music at Washington State University, has a national reputation as a composer, arranger and saxophonist. He is a recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer West, Artist Trust, and ASCAP. His compositions and saxophone playing can be heard on recordings released by Soul Note, Palo Alto Records, the Musical Heritage Society, Vienna Modern Masters, Arizona University Recordings, Open Loop Recordings, and his own label, Yazz Recordings. Under Yasinitsky's leadership, the Washington State University Jazz Studies Program has received widespread recognition including awards from Down Beat magazine. Titles: I. Relaxin (easy swing) * II. Night Music (relaxed blues) * III. Southern Exposure (Latin).