Author: Michele Weir
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9783892210627
Category : Improvisation (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Designed for vocal students to better connect what they "hear" with what they "play."

Author: Darmon Meader
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781532312588
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Gabrielle Goodman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Author: Jeffrey Agrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781622771257
Category : Educational games
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Michele Weir
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739033876
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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This book provides practical advice on professional jazz singing. Topics covered include getting inside the lyrics, personalising the song, creating an emotional mood, word stress, melodic variation, breathing, rhythm, choosing a key, writing a lead sheet, creating an arrangement, organising a gig book, rehearsing, and playing styles.

Author: Ida Marks-Meltzer
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467820105
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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No single event triggered my decision to jot down the bits and pieces of a patchwork life, but I suspect the seed germinated during the weekly Torah study sessions I attended after my retirement. Again and again our rabbi reminded us that bad as well as good times provide opportunities for growth and that bleak as well as bright moments illuminate our way towards spiritual wholeness. As I began plucking at the faded strands of my family tapestry I discovered that the rabbi was right. Moments of pain as well as joy did illuminate my journey and the bad as well as the good times do provide opportunities for growth. This memoir is an attempt to capture those moments. Ida Marks-Meltzer

Author: Jeffrey Agrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games with music
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Why don't classical musicians improvise? Why do jazz players get to have all the fun? And how do they develop such fabulous technique and aural skills? With these words, Jeffrey Agrell opens the door to improvisation for all non-jazz musicians who thought it was beyond their ability to play extemporaneously. Step-by-step, Agrell leads through a series of games, rather than exercises. The game format takes the pressure off of classically trained musicians, steering them away from their fixation on mistake-free performance and introducing the basic concepts of playing with music itself instead of obsessing over a perfect rendition of a written score. Agrell draws an analogy with sports that illustrates the absurdity of the traditional approach to classically-oriented music performance.

Author: Jan Shapiro
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442229365
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Since the 1930s and ̕40s, jazz has stood tall in American popular music, drawing into its embrace not only great horn players, percussionists, guitarists, bassists, and pianists, but also some of the greatest singers in America’s musical history. Jazz has laid the groundwork for important innovations in modern singing, opening up entirely new ways of delivering songs through what would eventually become jazz standards—songs that formed the basis of the American Songbook. In So You Want to Sing Jazz, singer and professor of voice Jan Shapiro gives a guided tour through the art and science of the jazz vocal style. Throughout, Shapiro hones in on what makes jazz singing distinctive, suggesting along the way how other types of singers can make use of jazz. She looks at such key matters in jazz singing as the role of improvisation, the place of specific singers who influenced and even defined vocal jazz as we know it today, and the unique way in which jazz incorporates vibrato, conversational delivery, rhythmic phrasing, and melodic embellishment and improvisation. The book includes guest-authored chapters by singing voice researchers Dr. Scott McCoy and Dr. Wendy LeBorgne. In So You Want to Sing Jazz, singers and voice teachers finally have the go-to resource they need for singing vocal jazz. The So You Want to Sing series is produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Jazz features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Author: Michele Weir
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739047958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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"[Student will learn the following:] open a fake book/sheet music with chord symbols and play a tune, accompany vocalist/instrumentalist on any type of tune, get a solo piano/vocal gig, use the piano as a helpful tool to practice vocal improvisation, analyze the chord changes to a song and understand the function of each chord within the progression, double-check published leads-sheets for accuracy, improve composition skills by being able to play and hear the tunes, improve improvisation skills by understanding the harmonic construction of a song."--Page 2

Author: Ella Fitzgerald
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458452425
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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(Vocal Piano). Arguably the best female jazz singer ever, no one could out-swing or out-scat "The First Lady of Song." This fine book features authentic transcriptions in the original keys of 25 Fitzgerald classics in voice with piano accompaniment format: A-tisket, A-tasket * But Not for Me * Easy to Love * Embraceable You * The Lady Is a Tramp * Misty * Oh, Lady Be Good! * Satin Doll * Stompin' at the Savoy * Take the "A" Train * and more. Includes a biography and discography. A must for every jazz singer's library!