Language English Pages 104 Alternative Item No. AHW 3907
This 100+ page book is full of exercises to get you started, then includes a long list of tunes that show you how to take an existing melody and make it your own through improv.
The Art of Improvising The Charleston Patterns Syncopations Forming Chords The Common Chord Chart Syncopated Chord Drills Walking Bass Breaks (Fill-ins) The Blues Just a Closer Walk with Thee St. James Infirmary Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home When the Saints Go Marching In Blues-Boogie Drills Yankee Doodle (paraphrase) Dixie (paraphrase) Baa Baa Black Sheep (paraphrase) The Happy Farmer (paraphrase) The Arkansas Traveler (paraphrase) "Rossini's" William Tell (paraphrase) Latin American Rhythms