Simplify Your Approach to Improvisation! (A practical 10-step guide for all instrumentalists) is now available, in paperback format, at all Amazon websites.
Building on his previous publication (The Technique and Theory of Improvisation), Bill McBirnie's new book is a concise, comprehensive, and organized 10-step guide to understanding any chart or lead sheet. This fundamental skill is essential in learning to improvise on any tune with confidence and fluency.
This book presents the necessary theory, the 10 basic steps, and then a comprehensive analysis of ten standard tunes (each accompanied by a detailed explanation framed around the 10-step approach). The book covers additional areas as well, such as free improv and developing your ear.
Simplify Your Approach to Improvisation! is a valuable and useful resource for anyone and everyone—whether you are a beginning, intermediate, or advanced student—including performers, teachers, and academics. Regardless of what level you are at, you will learn how to approach music in a systematic and structured way, which will enable you to improvise better... and with more self-confidence!...
Building on his previous publication (The Technique and Theory of Improvisation), Bill McBirnie's new book is a concise, comprehensive, and organized 10-step guide to understanding any chart or lead sheet. This fundamental skill is essential in learning to improvise on any tune with confidence and fluency.
This book presents the necessary theory, the 10 basic steps, and then a comprehensive analysis of ten standard tunes (each accompanied by a detailed explanation framed around the 10-step approach). The book covers additional areas as well, such as free improv and developing your ear.
Simplify Your Approach to Improvisation! is a valuable and useful resource for anyone and everyone—whether you are a beginning, intermediate, or advanced student—including performers, teachers, and academics. Regardless of what level you are at, you will learn how to approach music in a systematic and structured way, which will enable you to improvise better... and with more self-confidence!...
