All musicians need to thoroughly learn their scales, chords, intervals and various melodic patterns in order to be complete musicians. The question has always been how to approach this universal task. THE SERIOUS JAZZ PRACTICE BOOK provides a unique and comprehensive plan for mastering these basic building blocks of jazz, on any instrument.

The Serious Jazz Practice Book for All Instruments: Melodic Materials for the Modern Jazz Soloist (Book & CD)

Arts & Photography

Barry Finnerty

Music

Sher Music Company

The Conga Drummer's Guidebook is the only method book specifically designed for intermediate to advanced conga drummers, packed with exercises on every aspect of the craft! Spiro goes behind the superficial licks and shows you how to approach any Afro Latin rhythm with the right feel, i.e. he explains the concepts of HOW to play correctly, not just WHAT to play. Includes audio CD!

The Conga Drummer's Guidebook

Michael Spiro

Jazz Piano Masterclass With Mark Levine: The Drop 2 Book. Mark is the author of the widely-acclaimed text, The Jazz Piano Book and pianists will be thrilled to see that he has come up with a second piano book. This one deals exclusively with how to play Drop 2 piano voicings---the block-chord technique used by Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner, and many other jazz piano greats. Mark gives the reader a step-by-step, beginning-to-advanced approach to learning this technique, just as he would in a live masterclass. The accompanying audio files at shermusic.com have Mark demonstrating each exercise.

Jazz Piano Masterclass with Mark Levine

Mark LeVine

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

David Berkman

Walking Bass Line Construction - C Minor Blues

Bob Sinicrope