HOW TO IMPROVISE: An Approach To Practicing Improvisation (1991)
How To Improvise organizes the vast subject of jazz improvisation into three basic categories: What To Play, How To Play, and When To Play-and assigns individual musical topics to each one.
How To Improvise explains how to practice jazz improvisation on all instruments (including drums and voice) by applying the “target approach” to individual musical topics, such as: pacing, phrase lengths, rhythmic density, dynamics, articulation, chord-tone solos, chord scales, upper structure triads, motive development, rhythmic displacement, syncopation, over-the-bar-line phrasing, contracting and expanding chord duration, non-harmonic structures, chord couplings, tri-tonic cells, chromaticism, special effects, and others.
How To Improvise also offers an effective method for memorizing the melody and chords of songs, and provides numerous recorded musical examples, practical exercises, and a suggested daily practice routine for each topic covered.
How To Improvise is for all levels, all instruments and voice.
