How to Play in a Rock or Jazz Band: Beginning Fundamentals for the Rhythm Section and Soloists - Softcover

Vigness, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 061575841X ISBN 13: 9780615758411

Publisher: Disproportionate Press, The, 2013

Synopsis

Remember that scene towards the end of Back to the Future where Marty McFly plays "Johnny B. Goode" with the band at the 1955 high school dance? He gives the band a simple set of instructions for a song they’ve never heard, and they all tear into it like they've been playing together for 20 years. How could they have played a song that they didn't know and had never heard, without any rehearsal or sheet music in front of them? Was it just movie magic?

No, it wasn’t! With his simple instructions, McFly told the accompanying band all they needed to know. The band had enough training and experience to interpret those instructions and communicate musically with each other to deliver a very convincing performance.

This book, and the accompanying play-along recordings, is designed to give every member of the band, and soloists, that same training and experience. Arming you with the knowledge of scales, chords, harmonic function (music theory), common song structures and forms, as well as the role and function of each member of the band, this collection is as close to playing in real situations as a you can get, short of rounding up the rest of the members of a band and playing this material live.

Download the Play Along tracks at www.vignessmusic.com

About this title

About the Author

Jeffrey Vigness is an accomplished, freelance multiinstrumentalist and composer specializing in drums and percussion, bass, and guitar, as well as the owner of Vigness Music, LLC. He holds a Master of Music Degree in Percussion Performance, and regularly plays a very wide spectrum of musical styles, from classical and contemporary percussion to big-band swing, jazz and rock in both live and studio recording settings. He has performed across the United States, United Kingdom, Central Europe, the Caribbean, and Mexico. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Theory and Composition as well, and has had his music performed here in the U.S. as well as the Czech Republic. Jeff is also a staff composer for Floor Tracks and Teretone Music Libraries and most recently has a featured track on the album Halloween Haunted House Music - Terrifying Tunes for a Ghoulish Night (available on iTunes ). In addition to an active freelance schedule, Jeff performs regularly with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, and is a founding member of The R.S.V.P., a project created to explore new music in percussion and strings focused on educating students on the compositional process, improvisational experience and performance practices within a small ensemble. As an educator, Jeff is an in-demand private instructor, with a studio of nearly 60 students studying drumset, percussion, electric/double bass, guitar and music theory. He is a member of the Vic Firth Education Team, was selected as the percussion instructor for the 2003 Minnesota All-State Band Camp, and is a percussion coach for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Disproportionate Press, The
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 061575841X
• ISBN 13: 9780615758411
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 178