Jazz Improvisation and Jamming
Pro jazz players have their standards memorized. Groups of total strangers jam for hours, one standard after the another.
Getting a fake book is an absoute requirement for any musician wanting to jam with other musicians. Fake books are packed with songs stripped down to the essential chords and notated melody.
this will help you to learn which scales work with which chords and which chords fit into a given key. This will give you a massive pool of options to draw from.
Use play along tracks to rehearse with. These can be either the audio variety, such as the Jamey Aebersold, or Hal Leonard products or the computer variety such as Band In A Box or jazz MIDI files.
You should also have a reference library of jazz recordings to listen to, analyze, reference and draw from.
All of these features and more can be found in one place.There is a great program out there that is basically a computerized jazz fakebook. It is called the RealBook Software and is an absolute must have for any musician interested in jazz.
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