Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long Series - Vol. 76, How To Learn Tunes: A Jazz Musician's Survival Guide (Book & CD Set)
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Artist: Jamey Aebersold Play-A-Long SeriesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-06-28
Music Label: Jamey Aebersold
Soundtracks:
- Preparatory Exercise No. 1 [Same "A" Section With Different "B" Sectio]
- Preparatory Exercise No. 2 [Same "A" Section With Different "B" Sectio]
- Everybody's Song
- At Twilight
- Velvet Rose
- April in August - Tom Diehl, Luke Gillespie, Erik Unsworth
- Eclipse
- Aulil
- Changes
- To the Fore
- 10/17/21
- Kirsten and Her Puppy Katie
- Illegal Entrance
- Tuning Notes (BB and A)
Music reviews of Vol. 76, How To Learn Tunes: A Jazz Musician's Survival Guide (Book & CD Set)
Music Review: Hang with the "Big Boys"
Rating: 4 Stars
This book was somehow not what I expected. Having spent a fair bit of money lately to augment my piano chops, I'm reminded of an important point that is easy to forget when my inner "kid in the candy store" takes over. Musical instruction books must do two things to be effective: 1) meet you where you are; and 2) take you where you want to go. Notice that "you" plays a big part in the results.
This book does a great job on the first point. For beginners, it includes charts and recordings of model practice tunes to illustrate concepts that it builds on. For old timers, it catalogs a long list of standards in various ways to make them easier to remember. The title is enough to turn away experts that don't need the book at all.
The second point, taking you where you want to go, is where the book falls short for me. The book does a fine job in coaching the user in how to learn songs, and apply what you learn from one song to mastering other songs. It has drills and exercises to help you master and memorize a large body of material. The ultimate goal of this book is to free the user from fake books so they can go to jam sessions and fly without a net. The author and those whose opinions he values apparently have great disdain for musicians who carry fake books to jam sessions and the author makes it his mission here to spare his readers from such ignominy.
I don't currently need that kind of help. I'd guess that not many people reach that point. I accompany a singer on piano who doesn't care if I use a book or not. In fact, he likes to throw his own fake books at me during gigs to see what we can pull off. My immediate goals are to polish my fills, comping, harmonies, solos, and left hand work. Theory books, lick books, etc. feed that need, not this book.
There is value in what this book does, and I would like to try to impress the big boys one day, but until my repetoire fills out and I need a new challenge, I can see this book taking up space on my "round to it" shelf.
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