Improvise for real
Subtitle: understand the music you  hear ; play the music you imagine
By: by David Reed ; [illustrations and cover design by Mireia Clua Geli ; edited by Amy Nicholson]
Contributors: Geli, Mireia Clua
Publisher: David Reed
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780984686360
Subjects: Improvisation (Music); Melody; Music; Harmony; Instruction and study
Notes: "A way of studying and creating music ... You will learn to improvise over jazz standards, blues songs, pop music or any other style you would like to play ... The method is open to all instruments and all ability levels. You do not need to know anything at all about music theory to begin, and there is no sight reading required"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: What I hope to give you; title: Why we play; title: Our dysfunctional relationship with music; title: The origins of music education; title: The rules and formulas paradigm; title: Creating a new musical practice; title: The five exercises; title: Exercise 1: Landscape; title: Exercise 1: Landscape (for guitar); title: Exercise 1: Landscape (for electric and upright bass); title: The architect and the bricklayer; title: Seven little notes; title: The power of direct experience; title: Understanding begins with listening; title: Breaking the spell; title: The magic key; title: Isaac Newton and Michael Jackson; title: Exercise 2: Melody; title: Improvising for real; title: Your vast musical knowledge; title: Music theory is actually redundant; title: Sound, map and instrument; title: Seeing the matrix; title: The seven harmonic environments; title: Piano for everyone; title: Exercise 3: Pure harmony; title: Composing your own music; title: Family jam sessions; title: Sun and moon; title: Tension and release (in melody); title: Tension and release (in harmony); title: Musical shapes; title: Measuring distances; title: Cutting and pasting musical shapes; title: Exercise 4: Mixed harmony; title: Time; title: Playing jazz standards; title: Playing the blues; title: Playing scales is not improvising; title: Advanced jazz compositions; title: Free improvisation : feel, imagine, create; title: Exercise 5: Free harmony; title: The journey begins.