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The Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series is a new system for learning to play jazz. Each set contains a book with transposed parts for all instruments and a play-along CD with Ray playing many of the book examples on his saxophone. Volume one is for the absolute beginning jazz student who knows his/her major scales.
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The Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series is a new system for learning to play jazz. This level focuses on mastering the melodic minor scale, and learning how to apply it to complex chord progressions with greater ease to expand a player's working harmonic/melodic vocabulary.
The Ramon Ricker Improvisation Series is a new system for learning to play jazz. For players of all levels, this set is devoted exclusively to the blues form and covers a wide range of essential topics: blues form and variations, blue notes, basic chord substitutions, scales (blues, pentatonic, dominant), applying dominant scales with a passing tone to II-V progressions, improvising, etc.
More than a pattern book, this lays out the theory behind the use of pentatonic scales in jazz, and follows with transcribed solos and exercises. Still a favorite after 14 years, this book has become a standard in the field.
"Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor" sheds light on what every successful musician knows but most music schools don't teach--that a musician, regardless of instrument or specialty, is a small business and with that comes the need for entrepreneurial savvy.
More than a pattern book, this 80-page spiral-bound book lays out the theory behind the use of pentatonic scales in jazz, and follows with 12 pages of transcribed solos and 40 pages of exercises. Still a favorite after 14 years, this book has become a standard in the field.
This book with play-along CD proceeds in a systematic step-by-step format, explaining the theory behind scales and chords, and giving specific exercises to master them. Some representative keyboard transcriptions, and both alphabetical and chronological indices complete the book.