Composing Tunes For Jazz Performance

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. Hardcopy edition with audio CD that includes recorded performances of the musical examples is available separately.