Book excerpt: The Ultimate Jazz Tool Kit gives students confidence as they enter the enchanting world of jazz music. The Ultimate Jazz Tool Kit: Tricks of the Trade is a holistic learning tool that will save educators valuable time and provide them with concrete assessment materials that prove their student s success. The Ultimate Jazz Tool Kit: Tricks of the Trade includes a compilation of the jazz tools, practice habits, and concepts that have consistently developed superior music, students, and jazz improvisers. The Ultimate Jazz Tool Kit: Tricks of the Trade: Includes access to an enhanced online learning package that provides students, educators, and private-lesson instructors with lessons that specifically tackle a student s deficiency (including writing rhythms, understanding harmony, writing chord symbols, sight reading, how to practice, etc). Features interactive jazz flashcards covering jazz terminology, chord/scale relationships, polycords/extended chords, and scales and modes that provide instructors and students with gamelike drill work. Each section of the book provides material designed to get up and over major plateaus at different stages of musical development. Examines song writing basics, tune memorization, and helps the reader understand the musical colors they are hearing in a solo, a piano voicing or chord progression Features 35 videos of intriguing video lectures and guided instruction. eBook Version You will receive access to these electronic texts (textbook and workbook) and the accompanying website via email after using the shopping cart above to complete your purchase "