The Best Step=by-Step Guide to Start Playing. Do It Yourself. Instruction, Method. Softcover Media Online. Published by Hal Leonard

(Volumes 1-5, Complete) Written by Kenneth Baker. For piano. Format: instructional book. With standard notation, chord names, lyrics, instructional text, illustrations, fingerings and pull-out keyboard chart. Learn to play. 240 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Music Sales.

A Fun and Comprehensive Overview of Blues Bass Playing. By Matthew Liston. For Bass Guitar. Bass Guitar Method or Supplement. Blues. Book and CD. 128 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Chamber Music Flute(s)

SKU: PR.144407290

Composed by Ali Ryerson. Performance Score. 4 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40729. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144407290).

ISBN 9781491135150. UPC: 680160687008.

Jazz luminary Ali Ryerson traces a unique and personal artistic path in this solo work. With an engaging form reminiscent of jazz charts (a dreamy introduction, a catchy, swinging head, and improvisatory-feeling 12-bar choruses), Ryerson’s music pays deeply-felt homage to Charlie Parker and other jazz greats, while maintaining an organic connection to the lineage of unaccompanied woodwind music in the classical tradition. Classical players will gain insight into jazz harmony, rhythm, and expression as they learn this knockout recital piece, while Ryerson fans in the jazz world gain an image of her musical mind in this fully-notated composition.
Jazz Dream, a jazz-inspired solo flute piece, was commissioned by Claudia Anderson for her Glass Ceilings project. Claudia once told me that playing jazz flute has been one of her musical ambitions. I daresay her performance of JD could very well break a glass ceiling of her own!Moved by the events of 2020, composing Jazz Dream became my way of honoring my musical heroes from the Black community, namely the jazz musicians who created this music and truly broke glass ceilings. As jazz shares its origins with the blues, both genres having originated in the African-American community, I decided on a 12-bar blues form as the framework for the piece.The opening theme gently draws us into a dream-like state, with a melody in slow motion and lines that linger. When the REM cycle kicks into gear, there’s an abrupt rhythmic shift that leads straight into a swingin’ blues. Idiomatic jazz rhythms abound, with blue notes galore – the tension notes that virtually define the sound of both the blues and jazz (i.e. the flatted third, fifth, and seventh notes of a scale in place of the expected major intervals).After several groovin’ choruses of a 12-bar blues in B(, often played as if the soloist is improvising, the blues modulates to the key of E(, and as a tribute to the great Charlie Parker (AKA Bird), I harmonically suggest the more complex set of bebop changes that Parker introduced in his composition, Blues for Alice. Often referred to as Bird Changes or Bird Blues, instead of the basic I - IV – V chord progression commonly used in the blues, Parker used a series of sequential ii-V progressions (and secondary ii-V progressions). With the addition of some tritone substitutions, a chromatically descending bass line deftly replaces the original I-IV-V root movement. This is the harmonic background I was hearing as I wrote this particular chorus.After my 12-bar nod to Bird’s changes, the introductory dream theme returns, now in tempo and with a straight-ahead swing feel. Variations on this theme follow, again to be played as if improvising, with the soloist once again bringing their own personality into the performance. This section builds to a climax, the music pauses, then modulates to C, with a return to the original blues theme. The energy and groove increase through the final flourish, where a blues line ends on the idiomatic flatted fifth.

Piano

SKU: BT.MUSAM39645

The Complete Piano Player. Tuition. Book Only. Composed 1992. 232 pages. Music Sales #MUSAM39645. Published by Music Sales (BT.MUSAM39645).

ISBN 9780711906723. English.

All five books of The Complete Piano Player series are published in this single volume at a substantial savings over the price of the five individual books. Complete with keyboard chart.

(The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Piano). By Karl Mueller. For Piano. Book; CD; Method/Instruction; Piano Method. For Adults. Beginner. 96 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Composed by David Reiner. Squareback saddle stitch. Solos. Book and online audio. 136 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #93818M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

The new, easy and fun way to teach yourself to play. Willard A. Palmer and Morton Manus. For Piano. Piano Method. Book and CD. 192 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Saddle-stitched, Tunebooks. Bluegrass. Book and online audio. 108 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #30970M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

(Essential Tools For Jazz Improvisation) Written by Dan Greenblatt. Instructional book and examples/accompaniment CD. With instructional text and musical examples. 88 pages. Published by Sher Music Company.

Volume 1 - How To Play Jazz and Improvise - French Edition by Jamey Aebersold. For any C, Eb, Bb, bass instrument or voice. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long series. The culmination of Jamey's 35 years as the world's leading jazz exponents.. Beginner, intermediate. Book and CD. Language: French. Published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz

(Eb Instrument Book and CD). Composed by Christopher Azzara and Richard Grunow. Instructional. Eb instrument book and CD. Text language: English. 104 pages. Published by GIA Publications

A Complete Course for the Beginner Guitarist!. Performed by Keith Wyatt. Dvd. DVD (Digital Video Disc). Size 5.25x7.5 inches. Published by Hudson Music And Hal Leonard.

Volume 1 - How To Play Jazz and Improvise - Portuguese Edition by Jamey Aebersold. For any C, Eb, Bb, bass instrument or voice. Play-Along series with accompaniment CD. Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long series. The culmination of Jamey's 35 years as the world's leading jazz exponents.. Beginner, intermediate. Book and CD. Language: Portuguese. Published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz