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Sheet Music Exploring Improvisation: 30 Prompts to Unleash Your Inner Cool. Studio License
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Exploring Improvisation: 30 Prompts to Unleash Your Inner Cool. Studio License

Sale Price:$30.00 Original Price:$35.00
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Have you or your students ever tried Improvisation? Was it overwhelming? Didn’t know where to start?

Let’s start from the beginning.

Exploring Improvisation is a step by step Method Book, guiding you from Beginner Level to Intermediate with exercises in Improvisation, Composition and Lead Sheet Skills.

You’ll learn:

  • Sound Stories for first time creators

  • Understanding how to create a Melody

  • Building a Chord Vocabulary

  • Improvisation with Lead Sheets

  • Improvising as a Solo and Accompanying

  • Using Major, Minor, Blues, Whole Tone Scales

  • How to create in different styles: Pop, Blues, Gospel Hymns, Boogie, Rock, March, Waltz, Ragtime, Latin, and Ballads

  • Audio examples for each Prompt (coming soon)

Lots of ways to incorporate this into Lessons

  • Spark Creativity using playing 1 song every day for a month

  • Jump start lessons by using this as a quick Warm Up Activity

  • Studio License - randomly pick appropriate songs for students at their Level

  • Work through the entire book with a curious student

  • Use the Prompts as material for Compositions

  • Each song is 1 Page - Easy to Print. Easy to Use

Who is this book for?

Piano teachers who want to teach their students Improvisation, Composition, or Lead Sheet Reading Skills

Piano students and Adult Learners who want to play more creatively - who want to leave the written page!

Anyone, Any Age, who wants to be creative!

30 Prompts that walk you through different styles and provides Left Hand patterns with each Song.

How long? 47 Pages.

What keys? Black Key Pentatonic, Majors: C, G, D, F Minors: D, E, C, F Blues Scale: C & G

Time Signatures? 4/4 and 3/4

Skill development? Freely explore with Sound Stories, Learn to create - change - craft a Melody, Develop a Chord vocabulary, introducing popular chord progressions, Left Hand patterns for numerous styles like Pop, Blues, Gospel, Boogie, Rock, March, Waltz, Ragtime, Latin, and Ballads. Start with Improvisation and develop into your own Composition.

What level? Elementary to Intermediate (Faber 1 to Faber 4)

This is a STUDIO LICENSE: One purchase - One person is allowed multiple copies for students in their Studio. Please encourage other Teachers to purchase their own copy. Thank you for honoring the creativity and work of the composer.

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Have you or your students ever tried Improvisation? Was it overwhelming? Didn’t know where to start?

Let’s start from the beginning.

Exploring Improvisation is a step by step Method Book, guiding you from Beginner Level to Intermediate with exercises in Improvisation, Composition and Lead Sheet Skills.

You’ll learn:

  • Sound Stories for first time creators

  • Understanding how to create a Melody

  • Building a Chord Vocabulary

  • Improvisation with Lead Sheets

  • Improvising as a Solo and Accompanying

  • Using Major, Minor, Blues, Whole Tone Scales

  • How to create in different styles: Pop, Blues, Gospel Hymns, Boogie, Rock, March, Waltz, Ragtime, Latin, and Ballads

  • Audio examples for each Prompt (coming soon)

Lots of ways to incorporate this into Lessons

  • Spark Creativity using playing 1 song every day for a month

  • Jump start lessons by using this as a quick Warm Up Activity

  • Studio License - randomly pick appropriate songs for students at their Level

  • Work through the entire book with a curious student

  • Use the Prompts as material for Compositions

  • Each song is 1 Page - Easy to Print. Easy to Use

Who is this book for?

Piano teachers who want to teach their students Improvisation, Composition, or Lead Sheet Reading Skills

Piano students and Adult Learners who want to play more creatively - who want to leave the written page!

Anyone, Any Age, who wants to be creative!

30 Prompts that walk you through different styles and provides Left Hand patterns with each Song.

How long? 47 Pages.

What keys? Black Key Pentatonic, Majors: C, G, D, F Minors: D, E, C, F Blues Scale: C & G

Time Signatures? 4/4 and 3/4

Skill development? Freely explore with Sound Stories, Learn to create - change - craft a Melody, Develop a Chord vocabulary, introducing popular chord progressions, Left Hand patterns for numerous styles like Pop, Blues, Gospel, Boogie, Rock, March, Waltz, Ragtime, Latin, and Ballads. Start with Improvisation and develop into your own Composition.

What level? Elementary to Intermediate (Faber 1 to Faber 4)

This is a STUDIO LICENSE: One purchase - One person is allowed multiple copies for students in their Studio. Please encourage other Teachers to purchase their own copy. Thank you for honoring the creativity and work of the composer.

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Easy Lead Sheet Method Book. Book 1 for Elementary. Studio License.
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20 Favorite Christmas Songs: How to Play Lead Sheets - a Method Book, from Elementary to Beyond Intermediate: Studio License
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Have you or your students ever tried Improvisation? Was it overwhelming? Didn’t know where to start?

Let’s start from the beginning.

Exploring Improvisation is a step by step Method Book, guiding you from Beginner Level to Intermediate with exercises in Improvisation, Composition and Lead Sheet Skills.

You’ll learn:

  • Sound Stories for first time creators

  • Understanding how to create a Melody

  • Building a Chord Vocabulary

  • Improvisation with Lead Sheets

  • Improvising as a Solo and Accompanying

  • Using Major, Minor, Blues, Whole Tone Scales

  • How to create in different styles: Pop, Blues, Gospel Hymns, Boogie, Rock, March, Waltz, Ragtime, Latin, and Ballads

  • Audio examples for each Prompt (coming soon)

Lots of ways to incorporate this into Lessons

  • Spark Creativity using playing 1 song every day for a month

  • Jump start lessons by using this as a quick Warm Up Activity

  • Studio License - randomly pick appropriate songs for students at their Level

  • Work through the entire book with a curious student

  • Use the Prompts as material for Compositions

  • Each song is 1 Page - Easy to Print. Easy to Use

Who is this book for?

Piano teachers who want to teach their students Improvisation, Composition, or Lead Sheet Reading Skills

Piano students and Adult Learners who want to play more creatively - who want to leave the written page!

Anyone, Any Age, who wants to be creative!

30 Prompts that walk you through different styles and provides Left Hand patterns with each Song.

How long? 47 Pages.

What keys? Black Key Pentatonic, Majors: C, G, D, F Minors: D, E, C, F Blues Scale: C & G

Time Signatures? 4/4 and 3/4

Skill development? Freely explore with Sound Stories, Learn to create - change - craft a Melody, Develop a Chord vocabulary, introducing popular chord progressions, Left Hand patterns for numerous styles like Pop, Blues, Gospel, Boogie, Rock, March, Waltz, Ragtime, Latin, and Ballads. Start with Improvisation and develop into your own Composition.

What level? Elementary to Intermediate (Faber 1 to Faber 4)

This is a STUDIO LICENSE: One purchase - One person is allowed multiple copies for students in their Studio. Please encourage other Teachers to purchase their own copy. Thank you for honoring the creativity and work of the composer.

Wondering what it sounds like? Here are some suggestions of how these songs could sound.

Using the Prompt description for each title, I spontaneously created these sounds. Your cool creation will be unique to YOU.

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