Advance Music

Improvisation is at the heart of jazz, but knowing how to play stylistically correctly in a large jazz ensemble is also a necessity. How to Play Lead Trombone in a Big Band offers tips, suggestions, e...

For improvement of technical facility, endurance, range, flexibility, sound and expression; for jazz and classical and commercial players.

Day & Nite (David Liebman): Based on the chord changes to Cole Porter's 'Night And Day', alternates between Latin and swing. Blue In Green (Miles Davis): From the Miles Davis album 'Kind Of Blue'. Sof...

Let's Play Rhythm is one of the most versatile book/CD play-alongs available providing three CDs which offer a complete learning experience. You'll hear master musicians demonstrating the lessons in t...

This is a comprehensive approach to the construction of improvised bass lines. Intended for beginners and professionals alike, the book deals with playing in 2, creating walking bass lines, 3/4 time,...

This book offers richely detailed basic and advanced instructions developed according to the highest of standards. (Sizão Machado)'Impressive technical virtuosity, extensive vocabulary of the Brazilia...

Completely revised and enlarged edition! Jazz Bass Compendium is one of the most comprehensive method books. 208 pages filled with information and aspects on jazz bass playing. The right hand: positio...

Improvisation is at the heart of jazz, but knowing how to play stylistically correctly in a large jazz ensemble is also a necessity. How to Play Bass in a Big Band offers tips, suggestions, examples a...

This book/CD set provides a bridge to the professional-level books by John Patitucci a. o. and includes:- A play-along CD, featuring 12 grooves in the styles of Marcus Miller, MeShell Ndegeocello, Ant...

This intermediate-level reading book with accompanying CD (12 listening tracks; 12 play-along tracks) contains very melodic, fun to play blues lines and riffs in various styles/feels. The keys and tem...

Helmut Eisel is regarded as one of the best and most versatile klezmer clarinettists in Europe. There are only few musicians like him who are able to tell stories on their instrument, each of them bor...

The exercises in this book are constructed towards two ends: finger srength and facility, and harmonic thinking at the keyboard.

Concerned with how as well as what to play, Whole Notes is both a piano method book per se and, more importantly, a guidebook to accompany the reader's personal journey into music.Posture, practicing,...

Nine stylistically diverse soundscapes for the piano with suggestions for motivic improvisation.The pieces in this book were conceived as tonal short stories, emphasizing melody, harmony, rhythm, text...

Originally designed to work over a two-semester college course length it is also ideal for private instruction and for self-study.Subjects covered in this book include: The Elements of Harmony (common...

This book offers clear instruction in the performance of many of the wonderful styles of Brazilian Music and valuable guidance in the performance of the exciting grooves that Cidinho created along the...

Le Livre du Piano Jazz befasst sich mit den grundlegenden Techniken und der fortgeschrittenen Kunst des Spielens - von Art Tatum bis Mulgrew Miller. Dieser Band ist sehr ungewöhnlich aufgebaut: Statt...

The Art of Comping is a hands-on (first-of-its-kind) workbook which enables you to practice an often-neglected aspect of jazz piano playing. The text points out important aspects of the comping and of...

This is definitely not a harmonic system for those who are looking for rules by which to write music. Rather this is an approach to unlocking the limitless harmonic possibilities which are unique to t...

Jazz Voicings: The Complete Linear Approach is designed for jazz pianists seeking to broaden their knowledge of jazz harmony and to cultivate practical skills for mastering the harmonic progressions f...

How does one learn to improvise? The well-known jazz pianist Julia Hülsmann provides an easy and accessible introduction to Modern Piano Improvisation in this first volume of the series. In 15 easy pi...

Jazz Voicings: The Complete Linear Approach is designed for jazz pianists seeking to broaden their knowledge of jazz harmony and to cultivate practical skills for mastering the harmonic progressions f...

A new and exciting way for viola players to learn and practice basic jazz style.This book/CD set features 15 solo etudes based on blues and standard chord progressions, demonstrated by Mark Feldman on...

With this book/CD set you will learn essential jazz rhythms first-hand from world-class professionals ! Reading Key Jazz Rhythms is a collection of 24 easy to medium level jazz etudes, and 24 simplifi...

This book dedicated to the flute in popular Cuban music is a method in which I have tried to include all the technical and stylistical aspects that are of interest to the musician who wishes to become...