Becoming tight friends with a variety of patterns, licks and phrases is yet another strategy for building improvisation confidence. A wise investment counselor, Denis advises how to invest in various types of tunes to gain special dividends in learning improvisatory skills. His guidance supplies the tools you need to combine your knowledge of scales, chords, patterns and licks with some instant composing to conjure new ideas and images.

Clearly, it is the dynamic combo of Denis DiBlasio's personal, fun-loving, encouraging style and the witty, relevant illustrations of Steve Wiest which gives this book its tenacious power to grab the user's interest. The Sequel, with its direct focus on "Conception And Ear Training For Beginning Improvisation", is an inviting, lively, very entertaining and truly irresistable primer in jazz education .

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