Composing Tunes For Jazz Performance

by John Stein, Erica L. Meltzer (Editor), Joe Harrington (Photographer)

Digital Edition. Learn to write songs that showcase your strengths as a musician and express yourself in different moods, styles, and genres. Compose music that is simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, music that challenges and intrigues, with natural phrasing and logical construction. This book features 9 of John's compositions. The lessons in the book were originally published in Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. John Stein is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Hardcover edition includes audio CD with recordings of all the tunes featured in the book, available separately.

76 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 7, 2012