Many famous musicians have learned to develop their own unique jazz style using Berklee Professor Emeritus John LaPorta's techniques. First published in 1968 and now thoroughly updated and revised, his method provides a practical and intuitive approach to teaching basic jazz improvisation through 12 lessons and accompanying online recordings. Features information on jazz theory, rhythm training, performance ear training, and much more.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C and bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
8 songs: Bark for Barksdale • Dragonfly • Elevation • Idol Gossip • Jeru • The Lonely Night (Night Lights) • Rock Salt a/k/a Rocker • Theme for Jobim.
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Vol. 1A – Maiden Voyage/All Blues provides 15 easy-to-play jazz tunes for players new to improvising. Along with the Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis title classics, the song list contains: Autumn Leaves • Doxy • Footprints • Freddie Freeloader • How Insensitive (Insensatez) • Impressions • Little Sunflower • Now's the Time • Recorda-Me • Satin Doll • Solar • Song for My Father • and Yesterdays. This exceptional entry-level pack features instructional text, tips on improvising, easier chord changes, a scale syllabus, and access to online recordings of professional demo and play-along tracks.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Improvising is easier than ever with this new series for beginning jazz musicians. The Hal Leonard Easy Jazz Play-Along Series includes songs with accessible chord changes and features recordings with novice-friendly tempos. Just follow the streamlined lead sheets in the book and play along with the professionally recorded backing tracks on the audio. Volume 1 includes 18 songs: All of Me • All the Things You Are • Autumn Leaves • C-Jam Blues • The Girl from Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema) • On Green Dolphin Street • Satin Doll • There Will Never Be Another You • and more.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Improvising is easier than ever with this new series for beginning jazz musicians. The Hal Leonard Easy Jazz Play-Along Series includes songs with accessible chord changes and features recordings with novice-friendly tempos. Just follow the streamlined lead sheets in the book and play along with the professionally recorded backing tracks on the CD. The audio CD is playable on any CD player and for PC and MAC computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Volume 2 includes 18 songs: Don't Get Around Much Anymore • Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) • Honeysuckle Rose • Moon River • My Favorite Things • Speak Low • The Way You Look Tonight • and more.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included audio, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Blue Train (Blue Trane) • Comin' Home Baby • Footprints • Impressions • Killer Joe • Moanin' • Sidewinder • St. Thomas • Stolen Moments • Well You Needn't (It's over Now).
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This book by Bass Drum Control (06620020) author Colin Bailey is written for drummers with limited experience in playing jazz and the kind of soloing it requires. Colin helps drummers become more comfortable with phrasing drum solos, and teaches stock phrases (licks) around which to build effective solos. The online audio features tracks of Colin playing and soloing with guitar and bass, then the same tracks with no drum parts so drummers can play along. Also available by Bailey: Bass Drum Control Solos (06620068).
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Arranged for Philip Smith, Principal Trumpet, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
The inspiring sounds of 10 best-loved hymns are yours for the playing in James Curnow's Great Hymns. The included audio allows a soloist to be more fully prepared when an accompanist is just not available. These sacred hymns are an important part of our rich cultural heritage, and as such, are appropriate for almost any venue. Every church and school will find Great Hymns to be a valuable and enduring asset. Includes: A Mighty Fortress is Our God, All Hail the Power, All Creatures of Our God and King, Be Thou My Vision, Brethren We Have Met to Worship, I Sing the Mighty Power of God, Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, O Worship the King, Praise to the Lord the Almighty and We Gather Together.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split-track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. Includes 10 songs: Air Mail Special • Christopher Columbus • Four Brothers • In the Mood • Intermission Riff • Jersey Bounce • Opus One • Stompin' at the Savoy • A String of Pearls • Tuxedo Junction.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C, and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: melody cue with proper style and inflection; professional rhythm tracks; choruses for soloing; removable bass and piano parts. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: an additional full-stereo accompaniment track (no melody) and additional choruses for soloing.
10 tunes: Break Out the Blues • Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You • I'll Close My Eyes • Movin' Along (Sid's Twelve) • Night Lights • Reunion Blues • The Serman • Sunny • This Here.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C, and bass clef instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: Georgia on My Mind • Hallelujah I Love Him (Her) So • I Can't Stop Loving You • I Got a Woman • I'll Drown in My Tears • Let the Good Times Roll • Mess Around • Unchain My Heart • What'd I Say • You Don't Know Me.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Baby What a Big Surprise • Colour My World • Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? • Hard to Say I'm Sorry • If You Leave Me Now • Just You 'N' Me • Make Me Smile • Saturday in the Park • 25 or 6 to 4 • Wishing You Were Here.
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Exercises and Etudes for the Jazz Instrumentalist is a collection of original pieces by the master Trombonist/Composer J.J. Johnson. Designed as study material and playable by any instrument, these pieces run the gamut of the jazz experience, featuring common and uncommon time signatures and keys, and styles from ballads to funk. They are progressively graded so that both beginners and professionals will be challenged by the demands of this wonderful music. Published in both treble and bass clef editions, with text by J.J.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
9 songs: Don't Blame Me • Dreamsville • Goodbye • I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry • I'll Be Around • I'm Old Fashioned • Moonglow • My Ship • Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Always on My Mind • Crazy • I Will Always Love You • Lookin' for Love • Night Life • On the Road Again • Tennessee Waltz • To All the Girls I've Loved Before • Wichita Lineman • You Are My Sunshine.
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Christmas Classics is a collection of arrangements featuring new, fresh and dynamic settings of many traditional carols. The arrangements can be used as solos or duets, with any combination of instruments. Works include: Angels from the Realms of Glory, The First Noel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, He Is Born, In the Bleak Midwinter, Infant Holy, Infant Lowly, Joy to the World, Mary Had a Baby, O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Westminster Carol.
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A superb collection of Scottish songs and ballads! “This is by far the best collection of Scottish songs in one book ... with a delightful CD so you can listen to a verse of each song.” – Sarah McQuaid, Evening Herald. The CD includes the first verse and chorus of 90 songs from the book. Songs include: A Peer Rovin Lassie • Sound the Pibroch • The Banks O'Red Roses • The College Boy • The Gallowa' Hills • Loch Lomond • The Bleacher Lass O'Kelvinhaugh • The Dowie Dens of Yarrow • The Lea-Rig • Van Dieman's Land • Wae's Me for Prince Charlie • Boat Me O'er to Charlie • Cam' Ye By Athol • Coulter's Candy • and more.
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Students will love playing these 16 songs from the Disney favorites Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. Songs include: Beauty and the Beast • Friend like Me • Kiss the Girl • Something There • Under the Sea • A Whole New World • and more. This edition features the piano accompaniments for the flute, clarinet, alto sax, trumpet and trombone instrumental solos.
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For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Doodlin' • The Jody Grind • Nica's Dream • Opus De Funk • Peace • The Preacher • Senor Blues • Sister Sadie • Song for My Father • Strollin'.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Ah-Leu-Cha • Barbados • Bird of Paradise • Bongo Bop • Dewey Square • Funky Blues • If I Should Lose You • Klactoueededstine • Quasimodo • Star Eyes.
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With three fabulous volumes of Instruments in Praise already perennial favorites, this Christmas collection is sure to be a hit! Lloyd Larson has taken some of the great Christmas carols and songs of the church – such as “Away in a Manger,” “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “We Three Kings,” to name a few – and arranged them for solo instruments and piano. The parallel voicings make this collection available to all instrumentalists who enjoy sharing their gifts in worship.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: The Bare Necessities • Candle on the Water • Chim Chim Cher-ee • A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes • He's a Tramp • It's a Small World • Mickey Mouse March • Once upon a Dream • Under the Sea • A Whole New World.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, Bass Clef, and C instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along Series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. With authentic, easy-to-read lead sheets, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages will bring your local blues jam right into your house! Each professionally recorded song on the CD includes two tracks: a full-stereo mix, and a split track mix with removable guitar, bass, piano, and horn parts. The CD is playable on any CD palyer, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch!
Features 8 songs by the legendary B.B. King: Everyday I Have the Blues • It's My Own Fault Darlin' • Just like a Woman • Please Accept My Love • Sweet Sixteen • The Thrill Is Gone • Why I Sing the Blues • You Upset Me Baby.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
Songs: Dizzy Atmosphere • Manha De Carnaval • On a Slow Boat to China • Samba Dees Days • Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most • Sweet Lorraine • Tootsie Roll • Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) • When the World Was Young.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages help you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 great tunes: Cannonball • Domination • Fiddler on the Roof • I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People) • If This Isn't Love • Jeannine • Joyce's Samba • Porky • Sack of Woe • You Got It.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. 10 pieces, including: Children of the Night • E.S.P. • Footprints • Juju • Mahjong • Nefertiti • Night Dreamer • Speak No Evil • Witch Hunt • Yes and No.
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C and bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part.
FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
Includes 10 Latin favorites: Bim-Bom • Bossa Antigua • Estate • A Felicidade • Flamingo • Frenesi • Ho-Ba-La-La • Menina Flor • O Pato (The Duck) • Petite Fleur (Little Flower).
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For use with all Bb, Eb, C, and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultiimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Bennie and the Jets • Candle in the Wind • Crocodile Rock • Daniel • Don't Let the Sun Go down on Me • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road • Honky Cat • I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues • Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) • Your Song.
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For use with all B-flat, E-flat, C and Bass Clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package helps you master improvisation while playing some of the greatest tunes of all time. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing.
10 songs: Emily • In Love in Vain • My Foolish Heart • My Heart Stood Still • A Sleepin' Bee • Suicide Is Painless (Song from M*A*S*H) • Sweet and Lovely • Tenderly • Who Can I Turn To? • Witchcraft.
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