The only book specifically designed to help jazz players organize their woodshed time so that practicing becomes fun and productive. This is done by showing the reader how to take big problems and break them down into manageable tasks, each one of which is easy to accomplish. Covers basic theory, soloing, comping, ear training, rhythm practice, tune analysis and much more!

The Jazz Musician's Guide to Creative Practicing

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Sher Music Company

The Jazz Singer's Guidebook: A Course in Jazz Harmony and Scat Singing for the Serious Vocalist by David Berkman. Finally - a clear, step-by-step approach for serious singers who want to improve their grasp of jazz harmony and gain control of the music they are singing!The Jazz Singer's Guidebook will help you to: *Learn the basics of how to accompany yourself on piano *Learn how to write good lead sheets for your songs *Understand the structure of the music, and thereby improve your ability to improvise on the songs you sing. *Learn how to hear chord tones and tension notes on the chords found in standard tunes. *Learn how to use chord scales, chromatic embellishments and guide tones to make up melody variations and scat solos. *And much more! 142 pages, plus CD included.

The Jazz Singer's Guidebook

Sher Music Co.

THE JAZZ HARMONY BOOK by NY pianist David Berkman will be an instant classic. The Jazz Harmony Book is a course in how to add chords to melodies, showing how a single melody can give rise to rich harmonic variations. Endorsed by Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, Mark Levine, and others, this book fills a big gap in the jazz literature and will be used by generations of jazz musicians to learn both the basics and subtleties of Jazz Harmony. Includes two CDs.

The Jazz Harmony Book

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The Jazz Musician's Guide to Creative Practicing

The Jazz Singer's Guidebook

The Jazz Harmony Book