Subtly very useful
At first, about a year ago when I got this app, I was slightly underwhelmed. However, after a year of practice, this turned out to be a great resource when I was struggling to find something to practice. This book is basically an archive of Greg Fishman’s vocabulary, and I think almost all jazz musicians can learn something from his style of phrases.
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Where's the sound gone?
I have had all of these excellent apps for a while and they worked just fine until now. All of my iPad Greg Fishman apps run but for some reason no longer have sound!,, Did the reload thing to no avail. All my other apps seem to work fine?
Greg Fishman
Very intuitive! Are you a beginner to improvising ? Then this is a marvelous way to start. After learning a couple licks In every key you will be nailing the changes and sounding authentic to the tradition of Jazz.
Superb ideas
As an intermediate player I was struggling to build up a vocabulary of jazz phrases. Greg's app is filled with great sounding licks, all of which can be used as inspiration for further experimentation.
The format is very good, with the full book included as well as playalongs. There is also no space wasted repeating the same phrase in all 12 keys as many books do. You can still practice this way by playing each phrase along to the backing track in all keys, but Greg gives you a different starting phrase for each key.
This is the best book I have seen of this type, and great to have it as a portable app with the audio.
The format is very good, with the full book included as well as playalongs. There is also no space wasted repeating the same phrase in all 12 keys as many books do. You can still practice this way by playing each phrase along to the backing track in all keys, but Greg gives you a different starting phrase for each key.
This is the best book I have seen of this type, and great to have it as a portable app with the audio.
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Excellent vocal selections, well worth the cost
This is a really nice alternative to a book, and I think Greg has really done an excellent job in choosing the licks. They are not the obvious simple root-centered lines you see in so many textbooks, but really musical lines more like stuff you'd transcribe from the greats. I've found lots that make me go "I'd never do that currently, I should really master that one."
Hearing them is really helpful too. The only things I think would improve it would be more control over the audio playback (say different speeds, muting parts of the rhythm section, etc). For the price, this is really high value. I will be buying his other works as well.
Hearing them is really helpful too. The only things I think would improve it would be more control over the audio playback (say different speeds, muting parts of the rhythm section, etc). For the price, this is really high value. I will be buying his other works as well.
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