Outside Shore Music
Educational Materials
The documents listed below are among the best educational materials you will
find anywhere. Many of them are freely available for online browsing; some are
available for purchase.
- A Jazz Improvisation Primer
(browse)
This is the document that started it all. It has been read and enjoyed
by thousands of aspiring jazz musicians since 1992. It contains basic
information on what jazz is and what you need need to know to play it - the
history, the theory, and the practice.
- A Whole Approach To Jazz Improvisation (purchase)
This is the printed version of the Primer, available for purchase. It is
expanded with notated examples and other updates.
- A Jazz Improvisation Almanac (browse)
Perhaps the most ambitious computer-aided educational aid for jazz ever
conceived. It is still a work in progress, but what is completed is freely
browsable online.
- The Harmonic Language Of Jazz Standards
(browse, purchase)
Now available - a book that shows you how to understand chord
progressions in a way that will allow you to play by ear, to transpose on the
fly, and to reharmonize standards!
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