Bruce Gertz: Let's Play Rhythm
Product Description
Let's Play Rhythm is one of the most verstile book/CD play-alongs available providing three CDs which offer a complete learning experience. You'll hear master musicians demonstrating the lessons in the context of tunes. Eliminating first the solos on one disc and finally the melodies on a third disc leaving only rhythm tracks. Practice with or without the melodies or solos, write your own, transcribe for ear training. Learn bass lines, diatonic melodies, rhthmic melodies, pentatonic, blues scale, diminished, upper structures, intervallic melodies, reharmonization, pedal points, groove variations and more.
Here's what Rufus Reid had to say:
Let's Play Rhythm is a must for all players who wish to get to the core of great jazz playing and have a deeper understanding and functional use of the jazz vocabulary. We as players and teachers speak of the importance of "RHYTHM CHANGES", but Bruce Gertz has put these concepts into one concise book that is absolutely great. Bruce Gertz is a seasoned player and teacher who has left no stone unturned, melodically, nor rhythmically, for the aspiring player, no matter what instrument. He has truly saturated ways one can approach and negotiate the sound of the essential "meat and potatoes" form of jazz, "RHYTHM CHANGES." This form itself is not new, but Bruce Gertz's concepts and tunes are fresh, extremely clear to understand and, most importantly, he has made them fun to play while learning the "REAL DEAL!" This is no easy task! BRAVO AND CONGRATULATIONS! -Rufus Reid
Here's what Rufus Reid had to say:
Let's Play Rhythm is a must for all players who wish to get to the core of great jazz playing and have a deeper understanding and functional use of the jazz vocabulary. We as players and teachers speak of the importance of "RHYTHM CHANGES", but Bruce Gertz has put these concepts into one concise book that is absolutely great. Bruce Gertz is a seasoned player and teacher who has left no stone unturned, melodically, nor rhythmically, for the aspiring player, no matter what instrument. He has truly saturated ways one can approach and negotiate the sound of the essential "meat and potatoes" form of jazz, "RHYTHM CHANGES." This form itself is not new, but Bruce Gertz's concepts and tunes are fresh, extremely clear to understand and, most importantly, he has made them fun to play while learning the "REAL DEAL!" This is no easy task! BRAVO AND CONGRATULATIONS! -Rufus Reid
