Free Online Jazz Materials
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