The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps (Visual Tools for Musicians, #3) / Visual Tools for Musicians (ePub)

Ready for a great leap forward in applying theory to your musical practice? Discover techniques to help bring your visual memory into play.

Have you suffered from traditional teaching approaches relying solely on aural memory? Do your ears let you down when it comes to naming a chord? With over twenty years' experience, Philip Jackson brings his teaching ability to provide you with the tools you can employ to harness the power of your visual memory. In an easy-to-follow companion series of workbooks, he links the tools to the theory in an easily visualized manner and follows that with practical exercises to help you embed the techniques and gain confidence in your mastery.

The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps is the third book in his Visual Tools for Musicians series and is an accessible and straightforward accompanying guide designed to solidify key concepts from Chapters 8, 9 10 and 11 (Major Scales) of Jackson's best-seller, The Circle of Fifths: visual tools for musicians. Paralleling the tone of the parent volume, Jackson encourages diving in and developing skills with exercises and additional tutelage. And by following his practical solutions to common pitfalls, you'll soon gain clarity and approach your new passion fearlessly.

In The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps, you'll discover:

• Sixty-four exercises to convert fledgling know-how into deeply understood notions

• Hands-on training to grasp chord progressions through a visual medium for maximum ease of recall and maximum stress reduction during your playing

• A pathway toward exhilarating improvisation, so you can expand your musicianship by familiarization with the whole tone scale, the diminished scale and many others

• How to visualize substitutions in order to enrich the harmonic content of your improvisation

• How to avoid melodic dissonance by mastering the choice of inside pentatonic scales, the harmonization of the major scale and much, much more!

The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps is the ideal interactive tool for hitting all the right notes. If you like concrete examples, learning through applying principles, and exciting alternative teaching methods, then you'll love Philip Jackson's finely tuned workbook.

Buy The Workbook: Volume 2 - Further Steps to make sound progress today!