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Linear Jazz Improvisation: The Method ~ 15 books for all instruments, voices, ages, styles and levels ~ While (the usual) Chord Scale Theory can be useful, it leaves substance—what to play—entirely up to the student to figure out for him/herself. Linear Jazz Improvisation Method supplies not only the methodology for how to focus your practicing of improvising on the essential elements of the specific tune at hand, it also supplies the actual substance of what to play and how to develop it in your personal style through the focused practicing of specific vocabulary. Learn just 4 key elements: Melody. Guide-tone lines. Root Progression. Melodic Rhythm. Every composition is made up of these 4 essential elements—the building blocks of jazz improvisation. Find out how to identify and reduce them, and then systematically apply the 10 LJI Targeting Groups to them—on any song. Book 1 is the LJI method text, while the other LJI books are comprised of exercises and etudes designed to directly apply its concepts through singing and playing. All LJI exercise books are available for all instruments and voices, in both e-book and beautiful spiral-bound hard copy format; and they all come with free sound files to practice with.