Franco Morone - My Acoustic Blues Guitar Download

With My Acoustic Blues Guitar, Franco Morone succeeds in unifying an interesting music book and a manual for playing fingerstyle blues .He presents a method that starts with easy elementary exercises , then the more sophisticated ones in which elaboration is on tyical fingerstyle blues phrases . These are then used in 10 full scale blues pieces and 6 studies .The compositions are like a challenge for more the advanced players. CD included!

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Basic Elements of Chord Symbols

A chord symbol, such as CMaj7, usually contains three parts:

• A pitch-letter (such as C) to indicate the key
• The chord type of a major (Ma) or minor (m) key
• The number that indicates the top note of the chord (6, 7, 9, 11, or 13)

Normally, a chord contains the 1, 3, and 5 notes of the key plus one or more extensions
(higher notes in the chord). For example, CMa7 contains the 1, 3, 5, and 7 of C Major (C, E,
G, and B), while a CMa9 chord contains the 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 of C Major (C, E, G, B, and D).
A chord symbol can indicate any of the 12 keys, such as C#, D, Eb, E, etc.
Building Major Chords
A major chord has the 1, 3, and 5 degrees of a major scale. A major 7 chord has the 1, 3, 5,
and 7; a major 9 chord has the 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9; and a major 6 chord has the 1, 3, 5, and 6.
1.5 Spelling the 12 Major Chords
The examples below show common major chord symbols you’ll see in chord progressions,
along with their chord tones, or arpeggios. C is the example key used here.

          CMaj          CMaj7         CMaj9         CMaj6

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Jazz fake books collection Download

Excellent Jazz fake books collection - Darwin (Tamanho: 1014,64 MB) to download here you will find bill evans fake book, guitar 557 standards, latin real book, new real book vol 1,2,3, the tv fake book, etc and much much more... Download HERE

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8 tips to Teach yourself Piano and a book to download- 8 dicas para Aprender Piano Sozinho com livro para Download

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   Find a piano to use. You may have one at home, or you may be able to find one somewhere else. You also need to make sure the piano is reasonably tuned. If your piano hasn't been played for ages, or has recently been moved, chances are, it's at least a bit out of tune. While the piano being a tiny bit off shouldn't matter much, if the piano is worse, you may want to have it tuned by a professional before going any further.
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   If you're unable to find a piano, a keyboard is a great alternative. They're affordable, never go out of tune, and have lots of sounds and features that can enhance your music. And higher end keyboard models sound just as good or better than many grand pianos. Not to mention they're a lot easier to move around and don't take up much space.
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   Acquire some prior musical knowledge. Teaching yourself to play the piano will be pretty much impossible if you haven't had some sort of professional teaching on some other instrument -- you need to know how to read and you need to understand musicbefore you can teach yourself to play anything. It does not matter if the other instrument you can play is, say, a Bb clarinet or an Eb alto saxophone, even though the piano is a C instrument. In fact, once you get better at the piano, you can do some really cool things if you play an instrument in another key.

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Chick Corea Keyboard Workshop Booklet Download

Chick Corea, one of the most influential keyboard players and composers in the history of jazz, provides insights into practicing, composing, and improvising. Features a brand-new piece composed, developed, and performed by a trio including John Patitucci, and Tom Brechtlein. Special features include bonus video performances, additional video tips, play-along video with printout, additional product previews, and Internet connectivity.  

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Creative Improvisation

Improvisation is the art of creating something quickly, with limited time to plan and with limited materials. To improvise, you need to make quick decisions and see relationships quickly, while you’re creating.

Can Improvisation Be Pre-Determined?
By definition, improvisation is not pre-determined. For example, if you plan out all the notes of a solo and then play them, it’s a composition, not an improvisation. (In some cases that may be OK, such as for very short solos or recordings where a specific result is needed.) Here’s what you should study and plan ahead of time:


• The elements of the song to improvise to (chords, scales, rhythmic style, etc.)


• The basic mood and feeling of the song

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Five Barriers to Creativity

Sometimes we stifle our creativity by limiting the way we think. Here are five common barriers to creativity:
1) “There’s just one way to solve a problem.”
2) “I need a new and unique solution, not one that’s borrowed or adapted.”
3) “I don’t really understand the tools and materials.”
4) “I just build, without planning or visualizing.”
5) “My fears or ego interfere with creativity.”

Below are some ways to overcome these five barriers.

Barrier 1: Only One Way to Solve a Problem
When we try to solve a problem, sometimes our solution clicks and sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t work, we should ask ourselves:
• Are we trying to solving the right problem? We often try to solve the first problem we see or the easiest first.

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Fazer Beats de Sucesso e manter orçamento

Vamos chegar ao ponto. Nada sobre o mercado, vamos simplesmente para o hip hop especialmente para você. Você deve fazer o trabalho sozinho.

Não importa quanto conhecimento e experiência que você ganha, não importa quantas batidas, samples e loops que você baixa, não importa o software ou hardware que você usa, você deve ter o talento para usar todas essas ferramentas e recursos para produzir material que bate no rádio e nos clubes.

Agora, com o que disse, há alguns produtos no mercado que são fascinantes, intuitivos e acima de tudo criativos inspiradores de usar. Determinar quais os produtos no mercado são adequados para a sua maneira de produzir música dependende de sua abordagem sobre a produção de áudio.

Fazer batidas com sucesso, com um baixo orçamento não é difícil. Ele pode ser ainda menor se você fizer as escolhas certas, usando qualquer software de produção de áudio ou hardware que você pretenda utilizar. Agora, se você é novo em fazer batidas, então é altamente recomendado lutilizar ferramentas e aplicativos que o ajudarão a começar a fazer seus instrumentais do jeito certo.

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The Improviser's Bass Method by Chuck Sher (Bass Method) Download

The most comprehensive bass method book ever published!

A complete method book, over 200 pages, filled with information and exercises on all aspects of bass playing, for both acoustic and electric bass.

Plus transcribed bass lines and solos by:

Eddie Gomez Ron Carter David Friesen Charles Mingus James Jamerson Ray Brown Paul Jackson

Scott LaFaro Marcus Miller George Mraz Jaco Pastorius Paul Chambers Alphonso Johnson Jimmy Garrison ...and more! Download HERE

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Creativity

The principles of creativity and improvisation can be understood, learned, and applied. Some people think you’re either born creative or you’re not, and that you can’t really develop creativity. I firmly believe otherwise: if you want to develop creativity and you learn the creative process, you can definitely be more creative. The issue isn’t whether you’ll become a creative genius, but how well you’ll develop your own creative gift. As you read this chapter, think of how the creative process can apply to your own jazz improvisation.

The Creative Process
Creativity is the art of organizing things or ideas in a useful or unusual way. You can use the creative process to do the following things, for example:
• Make one or more objects from available materials, such as a musical phrase from individual notes.

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Learning Values through Improvisation

Learning to improvise and interact musically can build rich experiences and positive values
in your daily life. Here are five of life’s values that the art of improvisation can strengthen:

1) Discernment and wisdom
2) Integrity
3) Leadership
4) Informed risks
5) Diversity

#1: Discernment and Wisdom
Improvising opens up a potential floodgate of notes and ideas. Exploring and controlling these musical ideas requires discernment and wisdom. First, you use discernment to recognize chords, rhythms, melodic shapes, and other elements as they emerge in the music. Then you develop wisdom as you learn:
• When to speak up musically and when to be silent
• When and how to copy, change, or support the ideas of other players
• How to fully develop musical ideas to interesting conclusions

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The Seven Elements of Improvisation

The Seven Elements of jazz improvisation have initials that conveniently spell out “MR. ED, CPA:”

1) M elody
2) R hythm
3) E xpression
4) D evelopment
5) C hord progressions
6) P erformance
7) A nalysis

These initials should be pretty easy to remember. As you work on the seven elements in your daily practice, you’ll create exciting, artistic solos. These Seven Elements are the foundation of each of the Five Levels of improvisation
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Classical Composition, language, comedy and Improvisation

Traditional (“classical”) musical composition and jazz improv have interesting similarities and contrasts.


Classical Composition
1) Write pitches and rhythms before a performance.
2) Use chromatic scale pitches and duple- and triple-meter rhythms.
3) Develop melodies using specific techniques.
4) Have the musical skills to hear and perform the written notes.
5) Use common forms, structures (4-bar, 8-bar, etc.).


Jazz Improvisation
1) Select pitches and rhythms during a performance.
2) Use chromatic scale pitches and triple- and duple-meter rhythms.
3) Develop melodies using specific techniques.
4) Have the musical skills to hear and perform the notes you imagine.
5) Use common forms, structures (4-bar, 8-bar, etc.).


Language and Improvisation
Jazz improv is like impromptu speaking, so improv and spoken language have many similarities:

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Definitions of Improvisation

Musicians have been improvising jazz for a long time. Below are some typical definitions of jazz improv, with some common questions raised by each definition.

Definition A: Jazz improv is making up music as you go.

Question 1: So how do you make it up?

Question 2: What makes it sound good or bad?

Definition B: Jazz improv is choosing notes to fit chords.

Question 3: What are notes?

Question 4: What are wrong notes?

Definition C: Jazz improv is musical communication.

Question 5: Who communicates?

Question 6: What do you communicate and how?

Q1: How Do You Make It Up?

Improvising is creating music on the spot, but you don’t improvise

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Jazz Improvisation Myths

Let’s begin by discussing what jazz improvisation isn’t. Here are four common myths about

jazz improv:

1) “Jazz improv is something you’re born with, not something you learn.”

2) “Jazz improv requires perfect pitch.”

3) “You can’t practice without an instrument.”

4) “Classical and jazz have little in common.”

Myth #1: You’re Born With It

Although jazz improv is a universal language, we’re not born with it. But almost anyone can learn basic improv skills (listening, ear training, theory, instrumental or voice techniques); some people learn faster than others. Some very good improvisers start later in life, but all good improvisers pay their dues by studying the works of the

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Horacio el Negro - conversation in Clave Download

Learn to Hear
El Negro tells us that coordination is more than just playing patterns, it's the ability to "hear multiple rhythms from multiple sound sources at the same time. This is, in fact, the key to high level drum set and percussion performance." I heartily agree. Although in the beginning you need to practice certain patterns to be able to develop four-way coordination, eventually you should get to the point where you can play absolutely anything that comes to mind. To that end, this book is divided into eight main sections and

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The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method (Volume 1 2 3) + CD Download

The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method (Volume 1 2 3) + CD

This first book launches you straight into a hands-on contemporary approach to learning the basics of both guitar and music. The essential visual element of shapes and patterns on the fingerboard unlock the secret to successful and creative playing. Youll learn exciting power chords, strum patterns, riffs, guitar techniques like muting and string bending, and 12 bar blues progression. All presented with contemporary music examples and figures (from rockabilly to hard rock). In addition, youll gain

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Improvisando sobre a Progressão Harmônica

Uma vez que você tenha alguma ideia da associação entre as cifras dos acordes e as escalas, e como desenvolver uma linha melódica, você pode começar a improvisar sobre progressões harmônicas. Em situações de palco, a seção rítmica estará delineando as progressões harmônicas no tempo, enquanto você toca linhas melódicas improvisadas baseadas nas escalas que lhe são associadas. Geralmente haverá mudança de acorde a cada compasso, e você precisa ficar trocando de escala para acompanhar. Entretanto, você não deve pensar um acorde de cada vez. Você deve ficar tentando construir linhas que levem

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Introdução a Improvisação

Harmonia da Escala Maior

Uma grande parte da harmonia do jazz é baseada na escala maior. Como dissemos antes, cada escala maior tem uma relativa menor que é formada quando se toca a mesma sequência de notas, mas a partir do sexto grau da escala maior. Aliás, outras escalas podem ser formadas usando-se a sequência de notas de uma escala maior, a partir de qualquer um de seus graus. Essas escalas são chamados modos da escala. A escala maior natural é chamada o modo jônio (ou jônico ou iônico). A escala formada a partir da sexta nota, a relativa menor, é chamada de modo eólio. Os nomes desses

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Chromatic Exercise 1

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Chromatic Exercise 2

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Chromatic Exercise 3

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Chromatic Exercise 4

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Chromatic Exercise 5

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Chromatic Exercise 6

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Chromatic Exercise 7

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