Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: MB.30923M
A Path to Fluency in
Odd Meters and
Polyrhythms for All
Instruments.
Improvising, Lines &
Phrases, Saddle-stitched.
Jazz. Book and online
audio. 96 pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#30923M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.30923M).
ISBN
9781513468600. 8.75x11.75
inches.
Advanced
Rhythmic Concepts for
Improvisation off
ers the advancing student
a method to expand their
rhythmic vocabulary and
explore some of the more
challenging aspects of
the modern jazz idiom. It
puts rhythm and time-feel
front and center, and
offers techniques for
strengthening your inner
metronome, enhancing your
time-feel, expanding your
rhythmic flexibility, and
especially, learning how
to improvise fluently in
odd meters. The book
includes over 120 audio
tracks, with 52 backing
tracks featuring a superb
rhythm section for the
student to play along
with. There are multiple
examples of grooves in
each meter, as well as
multi-meter exercises,
arrangements of
standards, an exploration
of triplet groupings,
polyrhythmic exercises,
and full compositions.
Includes access to online
audio.