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Improvise for Real: The Complete Method for All Instruments

Improvise for Real: The Complete Method for All Instruments

Reed, David

Paperback

JazzMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0984686363
ISBN13: 9780984686360
Publisher: David Reed Music
Published: Feb 27 2013
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.51 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
A revolutionary method for improvising musicians

Improvise for Real is a revolutionary method for improvising musicians that brings everything you've ever learned onto a single canvas. You will see the connections between every lick, scale and chord you've ever played. You'll learn to understand music by ear so you can instantly recognize the melodies and chords at jam sessions. And you'll learn to improvise with a new melodic freedom that is truly connected to your ear.

The desire to express your own music

- Are you mystified by people who can pick up their instrument and immediately begin playing along with any kind of music?

- Does your heart sink when you see a page full of complicated chord symbols, because you have no idea what's really going on?

- Do you feel like you're struggling to connect scales and arpeggios together to make a solo? Do you wish you could weave melodies effortlessly through the chord changes and truly express yourself creatively?

- Would you love to be able to participate in jam sessions and feel totally confident and sure of yourself, no matter what's going on around you?

- Do you dream of being able to discover and express your own music, the music that lies deep inside your imagination?

The problem isn't you. The problem is the way you practice.

Music is actually a lot simpler than it looks to you right now. Improvising your own original melodies over songs and chord progressions is the easiest thing in the world. It's also an incredibly thrilling and beautiful experience to take your listeners on a musical journey to wherever your imagination leads you.

You can be doing this almost immediately! All you're missing is a clear vision of the musical landscape that you can move around freely. Right now, everything you are studying is isolated and disjointed. You learn a lick. You practice a scale. You learn a song. And probably all of these are in different keys. It's no wonder that nothing flows creatively when you're suddenly thrown into improvising!

What you need is a better way of thinking that brings all of these sounds together onto the same canvas. And you need a method that allows you to connect what you hear in the music all around you to the beautiful sounds on this canvas.

Everything you need in one method

Improvise for Real isn't just a revolutionary tool for musicians who are already improvising. It's also a complete method for learning to improvise right from the beginning.

The method starts with very simple creative exercises that you can begin right away. Each exercise lets you master a very simple musical situation and you will learn to express yourself confidently in this situation. As you progress through these creative exercises, the method leads you on a guided tour of the entire world of modern harmony.

Along the way, you'll be using a simple but powerful musical map to picture where each sound is located relative to the overall key of the music. So instead of having to memorize hundreds of disconnected scales and licks, you'll just be gradually filling in your map with beautiful sounds.

The result is a deeper understanding of music that enables you to connect your ear with your instrument. You'll learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you. You'll learn to play any song you know in any key. And you'll learn to express your own musical ideas exactly as you hear them in your mind.

Amazon review highlights

I am just 5 or 6 weeks into the course and it's already having a profound effect on my playing.

It's among the best music books I've ever come across. Reed's perspective immediately opened doors that I didn't know existed.

I am a professional musician teaching at university level, and this is the greatest book on music I have worked with in my 25 years

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