A Course in Improvising Sight-Reading and Ear Training 2 Booklets 5 CDs-This absolutely unique and amazing self-learning course will give you all you need to master the art of jazz improvisation. Five compact discs filled with instruction and musical exercises with a printed workbook for your musical dictation answers as well as a complete reference and answers book. Serves as a companion to …

Practical Approaches to Grading-If grading music students in any creative course for credit is a challenge how much more difficult is it to grade something as personal and nebulous as jazz improvisation? Should students be evaluated on their creativity in soloing or simply on technical skills such as chords and scales? What are the objectives in an improv course and how can they be graded? The i…

Jazz Hands is a series of original jazz pieces for Piano by Mark Tanner which covers all standards from grade one through to red hot. Although the player may feel free to indulge in a spot of improvisation in response to the printed music there is no expectation to do so in any of the books. Nor are there any chord symbols or other bespoke abbreviations the like of which presuppose a degree of …

This classic manual explains how you can use theoretical concepts to improve your playing referring to influential recordings and using the language that working jazz musicians use.If you've ever heard jazz musicians play chords or improvised lines that you couldn't figure out not only will you find them here but you'll also learn exactly how and where you can apply them in your own playing.In …