Jimmy Kachulis The Songwriter’s Workshop Melody PDF. Spark your imagination with hundreds of creative songwriting techniques! This hands-on guide provides lessons on how to write innovative songs, based on popular songwriting courses at Berklee College of Music. Whether you’re a beginning songwriter who can’t read a note of music, or an experienced professional looking for new ideas, this book will provide new insight into your craft; it teaches the fundamental techniques behind today’s hit songs, together with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own art. This book comes with access to online audio recordings...

Jonathan E. Peters Music Theory download. An in-depth and straight forward approach to understanding music. Have you ever wondered how the musical scale came about? Or why certain pitches sound better together than others? “Music Theory”, by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters, is a comprehensive course in the study of music. Much more than just memorization of musical terms and definitions… this course explains the “why”. This book does a fantastic job of explaining the basics of reading sheet music. Completely demystifies time signatures. This alone is worth the price of admission. Does a great job explaining the circle of...

Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 PDF download. Possession of this collection will enable any musician, independently of level and experience in jazz improvisation mastery, learn the basic styles and genres of jazz, and eventually become a true expert in this. Information for reference (for those who do not know): Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play-A-Long – the world’s best collections of exercises for jazz musicians. Volume 1: How To Play Jazz & Improvise. Beginning/Intermediate. Easy to understand and inspiring for all musicians wishing to explore the secrets of jazz improv. CD includes blues in Bb and...

Jerry Bergonzi Melodic Rhythms Volume 4 PDF. Time and rhythm are king! Number one! We are constantly aware of this fact when we are playing or listening to improvised music. All notes seem to sound good when they are played with good time. Even melodies that use wrong notes sound good when played with good time. What often packages a good time feel are the rhythms a particular artist chooses to use. This book hopefully lends some insight into practicing and playing creative rhythms in a melodic way.   Format: PDF + Audio tracks (Mp3). 117 pages See also:...

Chuck Sher The New Real Book Volume 2 PDF (Key of C). More great tunes in the world-class New Real Book format. Along with many standard tunes, Volume 2 features over a dozen each of the best tunes by Chick Corea, John Coltrane and Horace Silver. Like all Sher Music fake books, it features composer-approved transcriptions, easy-to-read calligraphy, and many extras (sample bass lines, chord voicings, drum appendix, etc.) not found in conventional fake books. This book is more “Adventurous’ and songs are more complete than with other “Fake” books. This volume of the new real book is another...

Scott Miller Rock Keyboard PDF. The Rock Keyboard book/CD pack in the Keyboard Style Series is chock full of authentic rock keyboard parts! Learn to comp or solo in any of your favorite rock styles. Listen to the 99-track CD to hear your parts fit in with the total groove of the band. A great book that includes valuable fingering notation. You should know how to read music, though fluency is not required and the CD examples help re-enforce any question on rhythm. It teaches 8 different Rock styles which have many different pattern drills (97) for left and...

Tim Richards Exploring Jazz Piano Volume 1 PDF. A large and fully comprehensive guide to the inner secrets of the Jazz Piano style. Beginning at first principles, this exhaustive tutorial guides the intermediate Pianist through the nuts and bolts of successful and inspiring improvisation. Author Tim Richards covers all styles from the 1940s to the present day, and includes 28 of his own compositions alongside such celebrated standards as Autumn Leaves, On Green Dolphin Street and Straight, No Chaser. In fact, fans of Monk and Horace Silver will be especially pleased to discover two full transcriptions of solos by...

Bill Evans Fake Book PDF. Over 60 original compositions transcribed and edited by Pascal Wetzel. Leadsheets generally follow the latest recording to show the evolution of the tune and maturation of the artist. Counterlines, codas, chord extensions and chord changes for improvisation are included. Added features are lyric versions of 10 tunes, 3 essays about Bill Evans’ life and music, photographs, and discography. This book shows Bill underrated greatness in composing. The book is neatly done and the chord symbols are very comprehensive and include those wonderful inner contrapuntal voices Bill used all the time, both in his composing...

Jazz Piano Solos Volume 16 Disney PDF. Cool jazzy piano solo arrangements with chord names for 22 Disney favorites. There’s a lot to love about Disney music and having them recast into jazz settings just makes them better. The songs are challenging, but worth it! Great sounds, chords and composition. This is definitely for a more intermediate/advanced pianist. The arrangements are not hard to learn if you enjoy sight reading and are not afraid of jazz rhythms or accidentals. Buy with a sense of adventure. These are rich jazz harmonizations. Don’t complain about the chord selections if you want...

106 Songs Everybody Plays Real Fake Book PDF download. It’s your chance to play 106 popular songs on a popular instruments. Learn to play 106 songs including “A Boy Named Sue”, “In The Year 2525”, “Sweet Caroline”, “Chelsea Morning”, and “Jean”. For all popular instruments “C” book. Don’t miss a chance. A fake book is a collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs. Each song in a fake book contains the melody line, basic chords, and lyrics – the minimal information needed by a musician to make an impromptu arrangement of a...