Hal Leonard

Become a more productive songwriter! Learn to organize the full range of your creative content, from starting inspirations to finished songs. This book offers pragmatic tools, resources, practices, an...

Produce music for profit! Learn to create commercial music for the contemporary marketplace - for advertising, music libraries, TV, and more. Understand the creative, technical/production, and busines...

A great tool for all songwriters looking for creative resources. 1000 Great Songwriting Ideas is a handy book of creativity exercises that stop writer's block and spark the fire of your imagination. I...

Counterpoint is the technique of composing two or more melodic lines that are sounded at the same time. Whether a guitar riff against a vocal melody, a bass line against a keyboard melody, or a violin...

Mettete il turbo al vostro processo di scrittura di canzoni! Questi esercizi ed esplorazioni vi aiuteranno a sviluppare idee convincenti per la costruzione di canzoni, per poi manipolare e modellare q...

Jazz Session Trainer is the ideal resource for those players who want to hone their improvising skills, improve their chops, and feel at home in a jam session. In addition to a generous dose of scales...

The ultimate resource for studying the work of Miles Davis! 50 note-for-note transcriptions of his recorded solos for: Airegin - All Blues - All of You - Au Privave - Bags' Groove - Billie's Bounce (B...

The ultimate resource for studying the work of Miles Davis! 50 note-for-note transcriptions of his recorded solos for: Airegin - All Blues - All of You - Au Privave - Bags' Groove - Billie's Bounce (B...

Whether you're a beginner, an amateur, a professional or a teacher, you will find this book an excellent means of continuing your musical journey. This is a step-by-step guide to help you develop esse...

This book makes the teaching of improvisation as time-efficient for a group of twenty as it is for a single student. An innovative layout and terrific instructional material make this book a superior...

Ausführlicher Improvisations-Kurs für alle Instrumente mit über 50 kurzen Stücken, mit je einem zu transponierenden Solo-Pattern, Jazz Hanon und Voicings. Die Stücke sind Anlehnungen an Standards mit...

Perfect for musicians, teachers or anyone looking for solid info on scales, chords, and how they work together. Provides right- and left-hand piano fingerings for scales, chords, and complete inversio...

This book/CD pack by noted arranger and composer Steve Rawlins is both a warm-up collection and a manual for bebop phrasing. Its tasty and sophisticated exercises are designed for both vocalists and i...

43 jazz solo transcriptions as played by the legendary John Coltrane, including: Acknowledgement (Part I) - Airegin - Alabama - All Blues - All or Nothing at All - Bessie's Blues - Blue Train (Blue Tr...

43 jazz solo transcriptions as played by the legendary John Coltrane, including: Blue Train (Blue Trane) - Countdown - Cousin Mary - Giant Steps - Impressions - Lazy Bird - Lush Life - Mr. P. C. - Mom...

This fascinating jazz instruction book for all instrumentalists offers an innovative, scholarly approach to the art of improvisation. It includes in-depth analysis and lessons about: cycle of fifths;...

Über 450 Übungen inkl. einer Vielzahl melodischer und rhythmischer Ideen zur Improvisation im Quintenzirkel

Renowned jazz educators Emile and Laura De Cosmo provide more than 300 exercises to help improvisors tackle one of music's most common progressions: the diatonic cycle. This book is guaranteed to refi...

The world of jazz improvisation can be complex and intimidating to navigate for beginning and intermediate players, and Running the Changes is the perfect solution for this problem. Renowned performer...

This book for all instruments explores the possibilities of this must-know chord progression, covering major and minor II-V-Is in all keys, turn-arounds, scale mixtures and materials and more, with lo...

Blues-Improvisations-Patterns

These book/CD packs present a proven approach to practicing and are, in essence, woodshedding in book form. Rehearsing with this method daily will improve technique, reading ability, rhythmic and harm...

Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Instrumentalist is a collection of original pieces by master trombonist/composer J. J. Johnson. Designed as study material and playable by any instrument, these piece...

Eine Sammlung melodischer Übungen und 72 Jazz-Etüden, teilweise basierend auf Standard Chord Progressions, 148 S. Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Instrumentalist is a collection of original pieces b...

A valuable resource for learning the basics of jazz from Mike Steinel of the University of North Texas. It covers the basics of jazz, how to build effective solos, a comprehensive practice routine, an...