Beginner Jazz Soloing for Flute: The beginner's guide to jazz improvisation for flute & concert pitch instruments

by Buster Birch, Joseph Alexander (Editor), Tim Pettingale (Editor)

This is not a how to play the flute book. It's a how to play music book! Many woodwind players come from a classical background which may not have taught you how to play by ear. While this can provide an excellent grounding in music, it doesn’t teach you how to improvise, and often it's difficult for classically trained musicians to learn Jazz soloing. Beginner Jazz Soloing For Flute is the perfect guide to bridge the gap. Devised by Buster Birch (visiting jazz professor at Trinity Conservatoire), this book teaches a creative method for improvisation that's been road-tested at hundreds of workshops. Don't just take our word for it! “I wish this book was around when I started learning Jazz Flute! Buster’s approach is very clear and precise; linking rhythmic patterns with a harmonic idea is essential to producing great jazz.” Andy Panayi, Professor of Jazz and Classical Flute at The Royal College of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire “This book is a must for anyone wanting to learn to improvise but is confused about how to start the journey. You are in good hands with this publication and will soon find yourself improving with a new found joy and confidence.” Lee Goodall, Visiting Professor of Jazz Flute and Saxophone, The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama; international session artist (credits include Van Morrison, Dr John, Marcus Miller, Will Lee and Steve Gadd) Free audio to download, so you can hear exactly how each example should sound All the exercises in this book have been tried and tested in jazz workshops with both child and adult learners, producing astonishing results time and again. In 2017 the author’s jazz school won the prestigious Will Michael Diploma Award for Jazz Education – a national award recognising “outstanding commitment to jazz education”. In Beginner Jazz Soloing For Flute the art of improvisation for beginners is broken down into six steps that guide students to become confident improvisers. You will become fully equipped to improvise a solo with confidence. Having begun to improvise, you will also Learn to play jazz solo lines over the ii V I progression – the most common chord sequence in Jazz Learn flute articulation techniques that add emotion and flair to your jazz solos. Beginner Jazz Soloing For Flute contains FREE audio examples and backing tracks. You'll hear each idea in action and every articulation clearly played for you to copy. It truly is a one-stop-shop on your path to jazz improvisation Buy Beginner Jazz Soloing For Flute and get creative right now. Today is the day you learn to improvise!

53 pages, Paperback

Published February 26, 2020

About the author

Buster Birch has been featured on the international hit podcast The Self Publishing Show. You can hear him discussing his books, writing and teaching in interview here... http://selfpublishingformula.com/spot...

Buster Birch is an award-winning jazz musician and educator from London, UK. He has been a professorial member of the jazz faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music for seven years where he taught improvisation, musicianship, jazz repertoire and jazz history classes. He has been a visiting lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music, The Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Middlesex University.

He is director of the UK's largest and longest running jazz summer school www.theoriginalukjazzsummerschool.com, a week-long residential course hosted at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama for singers and all instrumentalists of all ages and experience levels. He also runs two regular jazz workshops for adult learners www.saturdayjazzworkshop.co.uk and www.tonbridgejazzworkshop.co.uk.

He is co-founder and course leader for BYMT Jazz School (www.bymt.co.uk) which runs regular jazz improvisation classes for junior and secondary school students at the county music centre. In 2017 BYMT Jazz School won the prestigious Will Michael Diploma Award for Jazz Education, a national award recognising "outstanding commitment to jazz education" and "acknowledging the work of those field practitioners who are actually delivering jazz education and in many cases helping to combat the widespread jazz phobia among classroom music teachers and instrumental tutors."

Buster Birch is also a busy freelance jazz drummer who has worked with a great many of the UK's finest jazz musicians. He has an honours degree in music from the University of London and a post-graduate diploma in jazz performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also studied at the Drummers Collective in New York City and privately with Jim Chapin and Joe Morello (of The Dave Brubeck Quartet). He has performed at virtually every major concert hall and jazz club in London as well as international festivals. He has toured in over 30 countries and played on more than 30 CDs. He has been a member of three "world" music groups (Terza Rima, The Branco Stoysin Trio and Heads South) who he recorded and toured with extensively. He has played for world-class orchestras, including The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and has deputised on West End shows.

In 2011 he created his own critically acclaimed show www.busterplaysbuster.co.uk which features the Buster Birch Jazz Quartet playing live and in sync to the screening of various different Buster Keaton feature-length silent movies, for which he arranged and scored all of the music.

In addition to his regular freelance work, he is a member of the following bands... ARQ (The Alison Rayner Quintet) - winners of the UK Parliamentary Award for "Best Jazz Ensemble 2018", The Jo Fooks Quartet, Heads South, The London Jazz Trio and The Halstead Jazz Club Big Band.

For more information please see www.busterbirch.co.uk