The Improviser's Bass Method by Chuck Sher, is the complete method book for electric or upright Bass. This is a well tested and proven method, endorsed by bass greats such as Eddie Gomez, Rufus Reid and others, this is acomprehensive start-to-finish method for bass that includes everything from, holding your instrument to improvising with other musicians. Taking into account both beginners and more experienced players, the book isfilled with charts of how all the scales and chords lie on the fingerboard, hundreds of foundation exercises to help bassists gain mastery of their instrument, ideas for constructing bass lines, soloing and more. Alsoincludestranscriptions of bass lines and solos by dozens of the greatest jazz bassists, all of which combine to form a fabulous method.

Tunes for Beginning Improvisers - Drum Chart Supplement (3-Horn Edition). Par HALL ALAN. Make The Real Easy Book come alive for your drum students! Complete drum charts and instructional videos for each song, as well as a primer for many styles of contemporary drumming. Complete drum charts for each tune. A variety of notation styles are used to reflect what drummers may encounter professionally. Parts simple enough for beginning players; but which can easily be expanded upon by advanced players. Access to a complete set of play through videos for each song. Each drum chart includes figures for the harmony, background and shout chorus sections of the arrangements. Additional videos and study guides for particular drumming topics like: the '2-Feel', 'Elvin Jones' style comping, basic set-ups and fills, Latin Jazz drum grooves, etc. Easy, but varied parts give the drum student a good start in learning a variety of jazz drumming styles, from '2-feel' to 'Samba' to 'Funk'. Suggested simplified grooves, and basic fills are included with many tunes for easy reference. Developed and road-tested for years at the Stanford Jazz Workshop's summer jazz camps. It works! Each drum part, though written in a given style, can easily be used to catch the same figures in different styles. Perfect for individual students of all ages, as well as jazz combos. The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery and more! Get yourself — or your beginning jazz combo — sounding good right away with these drum parts tightly written to musically enhance the 3-horn arrangements. / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Recueil / Batterie

182 of the best European jazz tunes make The European Real Book a must have for any jazz player. This volume contains pieces by Michel Petrucciani, Florian Ross, George Shearing, Nguyen Le, Toots Thielemans, Philip Catherine, Bill Bruford, Tommy Smith, Enrico Rava, Django Reinhardt and almost 100 others. As with all Sher Real books this book features: 100% accurate composer-approved charts easy-to-read manuscript A great selection of tunes Many extra features like sample Bass lines, chord voicing, Rhythm section hits, harmony parts and an extensive Drum appendix. An exclusive and exciting feature of The European Real Book is that streaming MP3 files of over 100 tunes in the book are available free of charge from Sher Music.

Over 100 of the best-known tunes taken from 11 of the most acclaimed fake books out there The Best Of Sher Music compiles a diverse range of the most essential songs for B Flat instruments that you need to know. At long last a compilation of tunes taken from the world-famous fake books from Sher Music. Every book in the Real Books series contains a dizzying number of jazz standards and contemporary records all arranged in an accurate and easy-to-read engraving. Now these books have been combed for the best songs which have been placed into this edition. So with The Best Of Sher Music youknow you're only getting the greatest songs.  Featuring transcriptions of some of the best jazz songs ever recorded this book is truly invaluable for any serious or casual jazz musician. The book is helpfully divided into sections so that you can easily find your favourite song or just choose a style to learn. The jazz standards and bossa nova section contains songs like Perdido and The Midnight Sun. Within the bebop section there are those virtuosic compositions like Ornithology Scrapple From The Apple and Yardbird Suite by the incomparable Charlie Parker. The contemporary jazz section holds the key to a number of more recent compositions and those from more exotic locations. So you need one of the Sher Music's renowned fake books but don't know which one to get? Why not pick up The Best Of Sher Music Real Books and get the best of the best to advance your practising and your performing.

101 Montunos by Rebeca Mauleon-Santana, is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative books on Afro-Cuban Piano playing ever published. Rebeca has played and/or recorded with Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Mickey Hart, and many of the most important and famous Latin stars! Going further than just theory and exercises, it also traces the whole history of Latin piano playing from its Cuban roots to its many current offshoots and derivatives as well as examining the influences of Salsa, Samba, Cuban Jazz and other Caribbean styles. The text is in English and Spanish and the accompanying CDs show you how each exercise should sound, making everything clear and understandable. An indispensable, practical reference book for any pianist wanting to learn this passionate and energetic music!

The Harmonic Approach. Beginning where the previous book finished, the acclaimed tutor Barry Finnerty has created yet another classic Serious Jazz Book for jazz soloists of all instruments. Barry Finnerty has worked as a recording artist with jazz legends like Miles Davis, The Brecker Brothers and the Crusaders. Taking the musical talents of virtuosi like these as his inspiration, he explains the key to better improvisation through a melodic approach to chord changes, how they interact and how they are used in context. Finnerty describes the possible uses and harmonic functions of a single note, not just to enhance your playing ability, but to show you the possibilities inherent in a different, harmonic approach to looking at particular notes. He also goes into detail on how to achieve melodic command of all the possible extensions and alterations of chords, as well as variations on common chord progressions. The Serious Jazz Book 2 will also help you effectively and practically apply the harmonic knowledge that you learned in the first volume. Not only this, but Finnerty features a great number of melodic examples that use all the chords and progressions previously learned. In this way, Finnerty expands upon and develops his previous edition to create an acclaimed guide to playing Serious Jazz as a solo musician

Walking Bassics by Ed Fuqua is one of the few method books that focuses exclusively on how to create authentic-sounding walking bass lines. Designed for beginning players or anyone wanting a solid foundation for learning jazz bass, the book contains detailed treatment of: the four crucial principles of walking bass line construction how to always make good note choices tips on creating good time feel a dozen additional walking bass techniques, once the basics have been mastered.

The Jazz Solos Of Chick Corea have been expertly transcribed by Peter Sprague for all instrumentalists. Trusted by Chick Corea himself, this book contains over 150 pages of the virtuoso jazz pianist's finest solos. Chick Corea is sure to go down in history as one of the great jazz musicians, and now with this authoritative and accurate sheet music book, you can learn each and every sublime note of his most renowned solos. With all of his most famous songs like Armando's Rhumba, Got A Match' and Spain, this book contains the most accurate transcriptions available anywhere thanks to Peter Sprague, Corea's official transcriber.