Jazz Theory:

Music theory is an area of study that can explain how music works, how to accomplish the sounds you want and create the music you want to play. It's really just a set of guidelines to give you a deeper understanding of music and help you be the musician you want to be.

Online Instruction | books/CD/DVD/Video

Online Instruction:

TedVieira.com - Free Online Lessons
Free online lessons and an Intro to Sight Reading course provided by jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira. Although these lessons are focused primarily at guitarists, there are lessons here that deal with general theory (scale harmonization, modes, etc.) that can be applied to all instruments.

A Jazz Improvisation Primer
By Marc Sabatella, here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group.

JazzClass
Michael Furstner's Jazclass has provided trusted, reliable and superior online services since 1996.   It is World renown for its unique Courses preferred by musicians who wish to stand out from the crowd! If you wish to learn more about: 1. playing the Blues or Jazz Improvisation 2. Chords, Scales or how to Read Music 3. playing the Piano or Saxophone with a super tone and professional technique, then Jazclass is the place for You! **** 4 Star - Yahoo Award Winner!

BerkleeShares.com
Here you will find free music lessons that you can download, share and trade with your friends and fellow musicians. Berklee Shares is: Individual self-contained music lessons developed by Berklee faculty and alumni. Free and open to the music community around the world. A library of MP3 audio, QuickTime movie, and PDF files. A glimpse into the educational opportunities provided by Berklee.

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Books/CD/DVD/Video:

Book: A Whole Approach To Jazz Improvisation
By Marc Sabatella, this book is the printed version of my online text, A Jazz Improvisation Primer. The printed version is almost identical to the online version, except that the book adds notated examples for all scales and many other concepts.

DVD/Video: Ejazzlines.com - Jazz Theory Videos
Here you'll find great jazz instructional videos for drums, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and piano.

Books: Ejazzlines.com - Jazz Theory Books
Here you'll find great jazz instructional books for drums, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and piano.

Books/CD/DVD/Video: BerkleePress.com
Music instruction books, videos, and dvds for learning guitar, bass, piano, drums, voice, songwriting, music business and production, for educating and training musicians.

Book: Jamey Aebersold - FREE Jazz Handbook
For years, Jamey has given away a booklet called the "Jazz Handbook" FREE OF CHARGE. This resource is great for jazz fans and students of all levels. Now, he's decided to make most of it available online for download.

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Essential Concepts: A Comprehensive Guide for the Contemporary Guitarist
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

This new 2nd edition provides over 200 pages of comprehensive scale patterns, chord forms and more than 60 step-by-step exercises providing an easy way to learn theory applied to guitar. Be able to play and solo in any key from one end of the fretboard to the other.

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Quiet Places
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Quiet Places is Ted's latest CD. It's an album made up of 10 solo jazz guitar arrangements of standards, with the exception of his original composition, "Perfect Night." Nothing here but Ted and his guitar.

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Soloist Series: Soloing Over Altered Chords
By jazz guitarist, Ted Vieira

Altered dominant chords are one of the staples of jazz. Being able to not only solo over those types of chords, but also create those kinds of sounds in your solos is an invaluable strength to have as a player. This book and CD provides step-by-step instruction along with audio accompaniment that makes the learning process simple and enjoyable.

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