Hearin' the Changes

Hearin' the Changes
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Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015040212147
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Hearin' the Changes by : Jerry Coker

This book is a study of chord progressions found in the jazz musician's repertoire. Through the tunes, the chord progressions are compared to one another, linked together by commonalities, and harmonic traits are codified, aiding in memorization and identification by ear.

Shouting Won't Help

Shouting Won't Help
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Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781429953375
ISBN-13 : 1429953373
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Shouting Won't Help by : Katherine Bouton

For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn't hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was "the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century." Audiologists agree that we're experiencing a national epidemic of hearing impairment. At present, 50 million Americans suffer some degree of hearing loss—17 percent of the population. And hearing loss is not exclusively a product of growing old. The usual onset is between the ages of nineteen and forty-four, and in many cases the cause is unknown. Shouting Won't Help is a deftly written, deeply felt look at a widespread and misunderstood phenomenon. In the style of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande, and using her experience as a guide, Bouton examines the problem personally, psychologically, and physiologically. She speaks with doctors, audiologists, and neurobiologists, and with a variety of people afflicted with midlife hearing loss, braiding their stories with her own to illuminate the startling effects of the condition. The result is a surprisingly engaging account of what it's like to live with an invisible disability—and a robust prescription for our nation's increasing problem with deafness. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

The "Real Easy" Ear Training Book

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Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781457101427
ISBN-13 : 1457101424
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The "Real Easy" Ear Training Book by : Roberta Radley

All great musicians have one thing in common---to a great extent they know what the harmony of a song is as they hear it. Do you? If not, here is a practical guide to get you up to speed. Written by Berklee professor Roberta Radley, it uses contemporary music to help you see how ear training is invaluable for your own musical needs.

Creative Chord Substitution for Jazz Guitar

Creative Chord Substitution for Jazz Guitar
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Publisher : Alfred Music
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : 1457490137
ISBN-13 : 9781457490132
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Creative Chord Substitution for Jazz Guitar by : Eddie Arkin

For a jazz musician, being able to manipulate chords and progressions is an essential part of defining one's own personal musical style. This book is very effective in helping to develop this skill. Creative Chord Substitution for Jazz Guitar explains the technique of chord substitution as a tool to expand and vary existing harmonic progressions. The theories of advanced harmony discussed here will enable any guitarist to have, at his fingertips, seemingly endless possibilities of chordal color -- possibilities that will take him far beyond the written page, and unlock an unlimited world of creativity as a player, arranger, and composer.

Walking Bassics

Walking Bassics
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Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages : 103
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ISBN-10 : 9781457101489
ISBN-13 : 1457101483
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Walking Bassics by : Ed Fuqua

This book gives you all the basic principles underlying solid walking bass lines. Comprehensive, easy to understand, with page after page of great transcriptions of the author's walking lines on the accompanying CD. The CD of NY professional jazz players can also be used as a swinging play-along CD. Endorsed by Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Haslip, John Goldsby, etc.

The Universal Sense

The Universal Sense
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781608190904
ISBN-13 : 1608190900
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Universal Sense by : Seth S. Horowitz

Reveals how the human sense of hearing manipulates how people think, consume, sleep and feel, explaining the hearing science behind such phenomena as why people fall asleep while traveling, the reason fingernails on a chalkboard causes cringing and why songs get stuck in one's head.

Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers

Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers
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Publisher : Alfred Music
Total Pages : 72
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ISBN-10 : 1562240560
ISBN-13 : 9781562240561
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers by : Jerry Coker

Legendary jazz educator Jerry Coker's newest contribution to jazz enlightenment Clear Solutions for Jazz Improvisers, identifies all of the most common problems Jerry has encountered in his nearly 50 years as a master teacher. In clear, easy-to-understand instruction and concise musical examples, Jerry first defines the concept, explains its purpose, and then presents its traditional usage. Concepts include guide tones, tri-tones, the jazz language, turnarounds, polychords, slash chords, ii/V7/Is, vehicle types, keeping your place, and much more. This book will greatly increase your understanding of the most essential jazz concepts all improvisers need to master.

Harmony with Lego Bricks

Harmony with Lego Bricks
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Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 0951579509
ISBN-13 : 9780951579503
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Harmony with Lego Bricks by : Conrad Cork

Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs

Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs
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Publisher : Alfred Music
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1562240676
ISBN-13 : 9781562240677
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training: Book & 2 CDs by : Jamey Aebersold

Jamey Aebersold's Jazz Ear Training is a no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. It starts very simply, with intervals and gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers are listed in the book, and contains transposed parts for C, B-flat, and E-flat instruments to allow playing along. Beginning to advanced levels.