Musicreation: A Practical Approach to Learning How to Create Music

Discover the creative musician within ...

Do you want to learn how to compose or improvise music, but are you intimidated by the prospect of learning how? Or are you a composer and/or improviser, but just want the added inspiration a fresh new approach can provide?

Then let Musicreation open new creative vistas for you!

You'll start playing and improvising music to the included play-along CD right from the first lesson. And, you can use the method on your own, or with a teacher. Improvise over existing songs or create your own songs ... learn the basics that apply to rock, pop, country and blues, or tackle more complicated jazz harmonies ... It’s all here, in Musicreation. Authors Michelle Pollace-Mills and Suzanne Weller put it all together for you in a clear, logical, easy-to-understand format, combining their experitise in music teaching, performance, and composition, as well as in writing, publishing, and psychology.

Suzanne Weller has been a music instructor for 30 years, teaching flute, piano, and guitar. She teaches privately as well as in public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Suzanne earned an A.A. in Music from Foothill College and a B.A. in Music performance from San Jose State University, with a minor degree in Child Psychology. She has studied jazz with Joe Davis at West Valley College, Bill Resch at San Jose City College, and Ray Brown at Cabrillo College.

Currently Suzanne lives in the mountains outside Santa Cruz, California, where she is composing, recording, teaching, and performing with Serenata Flute and Guitar Duo and woodwinds duo The Baroque Winds.

Michelle Pollace-Mills runs an editorial services business and is also a performing and composing musician. She earned a Bachelor’s in English/Career Writing from San Jose State University (SJSU), did a stint as senior editor at a technology magazine, and now writes and edits for a client roster that includes music software companies, Silicon Valley start-ups, and well-known magazine and book publishers.

Michelle also holds a minor in classical and jazz piano from SJSU. A multi-instrumentalist, she’s had the pleasure to record and perform with Lou Harrison’s internationally acclaimed Javanese Gamelan orchestra and to gig and record with various projects in the San Francisco area. She currently is collaborating with a guitarist/composer who has international Top 40 songwriting credits.