Jazz Singer's Guidebook (book/CD)

Publisher : Sher Music

Finally, a clear, step-by-step approach for serious singers who want to improve their grasp of jazz harmony and gain a deeper understanding of music fundamentals.

Topics covered include:
• The basic piano skills necessary to accompany yourself.
• The harmonic basis of the melody of songs
• How to vary melodies
•  How to develop a greater awareness of the important harmonic details of songs.
•  How to write a lead sheet and how to evaluate the chord changes that are on a lead sheet
•  How to hear tensions and chord tones on chords
•  How to know and hear the appropriate chord scale for each chord change
•  How to improvise from chord scales
•  Ways to improve your intonation for scatting
•  Plus hundreds of suggestions and exercises for scatting, composing, transcribing, understanding jazz vocabulary and increasing what you have to say as an improvising musician.
•  Includes audio CD demonstrating many of the exercises in the book

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