How to Improvise Over Chord Changes (For All Instruments)

Whether you're a beginner, an amateur, a professional or a teacher, you will find this book an excellent means of continuing your musical journey.

This is a step-by-step guide to help you develop essential skills for improvisation. The concepts presented are first demonstrated over the 12-bar blues progression; in later chapters, the ideas are realized over rhythm changes and in original compisitions based on the chord progressions of jazz standards.

Topics include:

• scales and modes


• chords and riffs


• transposition


• musical quotation


• phrasing and articulation.

By Shawn Wallace, Dr. Keith Newton, Kris Johnson & Steve Kortyka