Improvise for Real: The Complete Method for All Instruments

By David Reed

Book Overview

Unlock the full creative power of your ear, your instrument, and your imagination.

Improvise for Real will teach you how to play your OWN music. Maybe you dream of improvising your own solos in concerts and jam sessions. Or maybe you imagine yourself jamming with friends at parties and playing any song by ear effortlessly. You can be doing all of these things much sooner than you think All you need is a simple understanding of how music really works and how to connect with your own musical creativity.

These abilities don't come from memorizing other people's "licks" or studying music theory on paper. What you need is a deeper understanding of music that enables you to connect your ear with your instrument. In other words, what you really need is a creative daily practice that lets you understand music from the inside out, and truly create your own music.

Improvise for Real will take you into this beautiful world of sounds and show you how music and harmony really work. You'll learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you. And you'll learn to express your own musical ideas exactly as you hear them in your mind.

The desire to express your own music

- Are you mystified by people who can pick up their instrument and immediately begin playing along with any kind of music?

- Have you ever felt ashamed of your own musical ability, just because you couldn't improvise over a particular song or couldn't find the right notes?

- Does your heart sink when you see a page full of complicated chord symbols, because you have no idea what's really going on?

- Do you feel like you're struggling to connect scales and arpeggios together to make a solo? Do you wish you could weave melodies effortlessly through the chord changes and truly express yourself creatively?

- Would you love to be able to participate in jam sessions and feel totally confident and sure of yourself, no matter what's going on around you?

- Do you dream of being able to discover and express your own music, the music that lies deep inside your imagination?

Everything You Need in One Method

Improvise for Real is the world's first step-by-step method that teaches you to improvise your own music through progressive exercises that anyone can do. The method starts with very simple creative exercises that you can begin right away.

Each exercise lets you master a very simple musical situation and you will learn to express yourself confidently in this situation. As you progress through these creative exercises, the method leads you on a guided tour of the entire world of modern harmony. And you'll be jamming, enjoying yourself and creating your own music every step of the way.

You do not need to know anything at all about music theory to begin, and you don't need to be able to read sheet music. If you have always dreamed of truly understanding music and being able to improvise with complete freedom on your instrument, this is the course for you

Praise from Students Around the World

"I am just 5 or 6 weeks into the course and it's already having a profound effect on my playing."

"It's among the best music books I've ever come across. Reed's perspective immediately opened doors that I didn't know existed."

"I am a professional musician teaching at university level, and this is the greatest book on music I have worked with in my 25 years."

Amazon Bonus Offer

When you buy this book we will also give you FREE backing tracks and ear training audio lessons to make your practicing more fun. Just visit the Improvise for Real website and click the link to contact us, and we'll send you these additional practice tools at no cost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984686363
• ISBN13: 9780984686360
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: David Reed Music
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: All grades