FREE JAZZ MATERIALS ON LINE

Here is a compiled of the website addresses of places to obtain free music material from the Internet. All of the services offered below are free of charge. It basically covers music theory and history, written or audio music lesson, free music sheets and entire down-loadable songbooks. All the material is generally for jazz technique and theory. Have fun! (This complied by jazz vocalist Deborah Carter...Thanks!)

http://www.samedaymusic.com/library--allaboutjazz  (Thanks to Ms. Jenna Hill for this tip!)

BASS
-Bass lesson, technique and theory:                http://www.playmusicfree.com/music_lessons/html/bass_lessons/bass_lessons.htm
-Lesson Central  - Guitar and
  Bass lessons                                                 http://www.visionmusic.com/lessoncentral.html
-Internation Institute of bassists’
  online lessons                                                http://www.bassically.net/lessons/online_lessons.htm#bianchi
-Tobias Collection of  Bass
   solos written out                                            http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~f96tope/noter.html#jaco

GUITAR
-Tips from guitar masters                              http://guitarmain.com/rules.html
-Blues line in jazz I                                       http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=242
-Blues lines in jazz ll                                     http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=361
-Blues lines in jazz lll                                    http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=401
-Jazz guitar online                                         http://www.jazzguitar.com/lessons.html
-Lesson Central  - guitar and
  bass lessons                                                 http://www.visionmusic.com/lessoncentral.html
-Soloing and improvisation                           http://www.guitarnoise.com/improvisation.php
- Swing and jump blues guitar                      http://www.swingblues.com/swing.htm
-How to buy a used acoustic
  guitar                                                           http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=418

PIANO
- Piano chord computer                                 http://www.keyboardchords.com/
-Learn Jazz Piano by Scot Ranney                http://www.learnjazzpiano.com/index.mv?menu=lessons&page=preface.txt
- Piano chords and scales                               http://www.apassion4jazz.net/keys.html
-Piano voicings                                              http://www.jazzcenter.org/
-Stephen Lias technique for
beginning jazz pianists                                  http://www.tsmp.org/musicianship/survival_kit_for_beginning_jazz_pianists.html

HORNS ( Woodwinds and Brass )
-Brass – how to practice                                 http://www.purtle.com/jeff_articles_how.html
-Brass – what to practice                                http://www.purtle.com/jeff_articles_what.html
-Tips for brass                                                 http://www.purtle.com/jeff_articles.html
-Jeff Helgesen’s  solo transcriptions
of jazz trumpet masters                                   http://www.shout.net/%7Ejmh/
-Jazz flautists’ page                                         http://saxshed.com/thefluteshed.htm
-Saxophonists’ page                                       

http://saxshed.com/
-Jazz clarinetists’ page                                    http://saxshed.com/theclarinetshed.htm

VOCALISTS
-Rabid squirrel’s jazz lyrics page                     http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/newbonham/6/
- Singin exercises and scales                            http://www.vocalist.org.uk/singing_exercises.html#Vocal%20Exercises
-Yahoo directory of jazz lyrics                         http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Jazz/Lyrics/

DRUMS AND PERCUSSION
-Chuck Silverman’s Latin drum
And percussion demonstrations                        http://www.chucksilverman.com/lessons.html
-Drum lesson database (over 400
different lessons available !)                             http://www.drumsdatabase.com/
-Mark Wessel’s drum styles                             http://www.thedrumclub.com/DRUMSET/essentialstyles/ESSENTIAL.HTM

GENERAL
- Over 180 jazz lessons in Italian                     http://www.jazzitalia.net/lezioni.asp
-Chart of Circle of Fifths                                  http://www.apassion4jazz.net/circle5.html
-Dictionary of jazz terms                                   http://www.apassion4jazz.net/glossary.html
- Berklee jazz improvisation                             http://www.berkleeshares.com/music_improvisation
-Power chord studies                                     

 http://www.power-chords.com/
-Study of Duke Ellington’s music                     http://dellington.org/lessons/lesson01.html
-Learning to play in a rhythm section               http://www.tsmp.org/musicianship/playing_in_the_rhythm_section.html
-Rhythm training                                                 http://www.worldjazz.ch/rhythm_training.htm
-Understanding scales                                         http://www.jazzcenter.org/

SHEET MUSIC
-Stuntzner Brent’s page of
Jazz songs and transcribed solos                         http://www.stuntzner.brent.org/Transcriptions.html
-Real Books Vol. L, ll, and lll
and the Jazz LTD songbook                              

https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~adams/realbook/
-Top ten Jazz standards to learn                         http://guitarmain.com/standards.html
-More jazz standards (easier to
print out ) with instruction                                  http://guitar-primer.com/Charts/index2.html

-Jazz Resource center’s transcriptions
of solos from jazz standards (click on
‘transcription series’)
- Music paper to print out                                    http://www.stuntzner.brent.org/NotationPapers.html

If you need some help with the language on thes sites, below are some free online translators. The translation will not be perfect because it translated word for word by the computer, but it will give you a general idea of what is being said. Alternatively, you can use professional translation services by an expert translator and interpreter.

FREE  ONLINE TRANSLATION
World Lingo’s translator                                       http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
English to Russian only                                        http://www.translate.ru/text.asp?lang=ru