Eartraining and improvisation

Even if you only want to play the beautiful pieces from other composers, you should follw me to learn making small pieces and improvisations by yourself. This will help you to understand the masterpieces and to listen more carefully to the details of the compositions. You will remember the pieces faster and your understanding of music will improve a lot.

 

There is a lot of good literature I would like you to read: for example:  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For my exercises, you don`t need to read all these books, but you need some basic knowledge.

 

As the first part of exercises took a look to the different modes of the major scale, the second part pays more attention to the chords.

 

 

 

  

     

 

Jerry Bergonzi: Inside Improvisation, Vol.3 “Jazz Line”

 

Michael Sagmeister: Jazz Guitar

 

Tom van der Geld: Ear Training

 

Frank Haunschild: Modern Guitar Styles

 

Jamey Aebersold: Jazz Improvisation

 

Karl Ottomar Treibmann: structures of temporary music (Strukturen neuer Musik)

 

Schoenberg: Harmonielehre

 

Diether de la Motte: Wege zum Komponieren

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

    Archiv - Part One:

 

 

The second Part:

                           

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