Let's Play Rhythm
Variations on Rhythm Changes for the Study of Improvisation, Ear Training, and Composition -

Melody Instruments (B-flat/E-flat)

By Bruce Gertz

Melody Instruments Im Bass-Schlüssel Book & 3 CDs

Let's Play Rhythm: Variations on Rhythm Changes for the Study of Improvisation, Ear Training, and Composition is one of the most versatile Book & CD play-alongs available providing 3 CDs, which offer a complete learning experience. You'll hear master musicians demonstrating the lessons in the context of tunes. Eliminating first the solos on one disc and finally the melodies on a third disc leaving only the rhythm tracks. Practice with or without the melodies or solos, write your own, or transcribe them for ear training. Learn bass lines, diatonic melodies, rhythmic melodies, pentatonic, blues scale, diminished, upper structures, intervallic melodies, reharmonization, pedal points, groove variations, and more.

other books by Bruce Gertz (or books he has contributed to)

22 Contemporary Melodic Studies for Electric Bass, Vol. 1
Walkin
Berklee Jazz Bass Acoustic & Electric

about Bruce...

As an award winning bassist and composer Bruce Gertz is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Performance Award Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Musical Composition Award and numerous awards for outstanding Bassist from Boston Music Awards, A.S.C.A.P. Plus Popular Awards plus multiple recognition awards from The International Association of Jazz Educators and the Jazz Education Network, Bruce also serves as a Professor of Bass at Berklee College of Music since 1976. He is on the advisory board of the International Society of Bassists and serves as an adjudicator at the Clark Terry UNH Jazzer's Festival.

Bruce has performed and recorded with such artists as Gary Burton, Jerry Bergonzi, John Abercrombie, Joey Calderazzo, Kenny Werner, Mick Goodrick, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Mike Stern, Larry Coryell, Joe Lovano, Cab Calloway, Count Basie and many others.

Author of six books with play-alongs and contributing editor to Bass World Magazine.

As a bandleader B.G. has recorded 20+ albums. His latest quartet, release received four stars in Downbeat, December, 2017.