Books
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Composing Music For Jazz Performance
Learn John's tunes and write your own!
John has been publishing articles in Just Jazz Magazine for many years and he has compiled the educational materials into two books.
Learn about 3-chord blues, jazz blues, minor blues, and extended form blues.
Learn about standard song forms, minor key music, modal music, ballads, and riff tunes.
Learn some of John's tunes and learn to write your own!
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Blues Book
Learn to write Blues tunes that showcase your strengths as a
musician and express yourself in a variety of Blues genres.
Blues provides an endlessly fascinating vehicle for improvisation
and Blues can be approached stylistically in many ways.
Blues underlies much popular music and is a
foundational skill for jazz musicians.
The book features 11 of John's compositions
and all the musical examples in the book
are included on the accompanying CD.
$24.95
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Tunes Book
Learn to write songs that showcase your strengths as a musician
and express yourself in different moods, styles, and genres.
Compose music that is simultaneously sophisticated and
accessible, music that challenges and intrigues,
with natural phrasing and logical construction.
This book features 9 of John's compositions
and all the musical examples in the book
are included on the accompanying CD.
$24.95
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