A Guide to Non-Jazz Improvisation: Flute Edition
About this ebook
The non-jazz improvisation series mostly includes new original tunes that are intended to show how to improvise in many musical styles, including;
* Blues
* Country
* American folk
* Latin-American
* World music including South American, Eastern European and Asian
* Odd meters (playing in a variety of time signatures)
* New Age
* Classical
* Folk-Rock
In short, the books are an encyclopedia of virtually every musical style, excluding jazz.
About the author
Dick Weissman is the author co-author of 15 published
books about music and the music business. The Folk Music
Sourcebook, co-authored with Larry Sandberg, won the
ASCAP Music Critics Award, and his recent book, Which
Side Are You On? An Inside History of the Folk Music
Revival in America, was a finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book
Award in non-fiction writing. His other books include the
Music Business; Career Opportunities & Self Defense (which
was also translated into Japanese), Three Rivers Press, 3rd
revised edition, 2003, a best seller on the Random House
back list, Blues: the Basics, and Making A Living In Your
Local Music Market, 4th revised edition, 2010. He has also
written over 45 published instructional manuals for banjo,
guitar, and songwriting.
While living in Colorado he was an Associate Professor
in the Music & Entertainment Industry Program at the
University of Colorado at Denver. He currently resides in
Portland, Oregon, and is adjunct instructor at the University
of Colorado at Denver and Portland Community College.
Dick has enjoyed a long career as a studio musician,
record producer, songwriter, composer and performer.
During the 1960s, he recorded for Capitol Records in the pop-folk group The Journeymen. His 2008 double
CD, “Four Directions,” consists of one album of instrumental music and one of vocal music.
For more information about Dick Weissman, or to listen to some of his music, go to his web site:
www.dickweissman.com
It’s likely that Dan Fox has written and sold more popular music books than any other author in recent
times. His Reader’s Digest songbooks (17 in all) have sold more than 10 million copies. The total
approaches 20 million when you include his best-selling John Denver Songbook and Complete Beatles (in
collaboration with Milt Okun), as well as songbooks for Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers; Crosby, Stills, Nash,
and Young; Peter Paul and Mary; and dozens of other stars of rock, folk, and country.
Dan has also written many instruction books for guitar and mandolin, as well as “Write It Right,” a
guide for music arrangers and copyists, “The Rhythm Bible,” with more than 1000 exercises for rock and
jazz musicians; and many more. He has published arrangements and original compositions ranging from
simple harmonica solos to complete works for concert bands.
In the classical field, clarinettist Arthur Miller has recorded Dan’s “Suite for Clarinet and Piano.” Dan
has also arranged books of solos by world-class artists such as Richard Stoltzman and Sir James Galway.
Dan’s publishers include Mel Bay, Warner Bros. Music (where he was once editor-in-chief), Hal
Leonard, Carl Fischer (where he was interim editor), Theodore Presser, and Alfred Publishing Co. He has
also published “In and Out the Window” and “A Treasury of Children’s Songs,” highly successful children’s
songbooks for New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition from the Manhattan School of Music where
he was a scholarship student. He is married to artist June Fox. They have three children and seven grandchildren
and divide their time between the west coast of Florida and the mountains of western North Carolina.
