How to Improvise Over Chord Changes

For beginners, amateurs, professionals or teachers, this book is an excellent means of continuing the jazz journey. How to Improvise Over Chord Changes is a step-by-step guide to help develop the essential skills for improvisation. The concepts are first demonstrated over the 12-bar blues progression, and in later chapters, the ideas are realized over rhythm changes and in original compositions based on chord progressions of jazz standards. Topics include: scales and modes, chords and riffs, transposition, musical quotations, and phrasing and articulation. Great for beginners and accomplished improvisers!