Jazz Ears: Aural Skills for the Improvising Musician (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780793579402)

(Jazz Book). From Thom Mason comes a fun and interesting guide to help you develop aural skills. This book focuses on improving your technique in hearing pitches, rhythms, melodies, and chord progressions, as directly applied to actual music in the jazz repertoire. The text will help you to hear music in your head from the written page, transcribe, and sight sing, all the while making it musical through appropriate jazz phrasing and articulations. The valuable lessons learned can be applied to any instrument or voice, with skills that transcend jazz, useful in all styles of music.

Author: Thomas D. Mason
ISBN-10: 0793579406
ISBN-13: 9780793579402
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1997
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 11.90h x 8.90w x 0.40d