Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment
Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment
by Mike Titlebaum
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367427427 | 323 Pages | True PDF | 103 MB
by Mike Titlebaum
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367427427 | 323 Pages | True PDF | 103 MB
Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performance skills through embellishment techniques. Written with the college-level course in mind, this introductory textbook is both practical and comprehensive, ideal for the aspiring improviser, focused not on scales and chords but melodic embellishment. It assumes some basic theoretical knowledge and level of musicianship while introducing multiple techniques, mindful that improvisation is a learned skill as dependent on hard work and organized practice as it is on innate talent.