Jazz Improvisation: Change Your Mindset To Achieve Your Goal

No matter who you are, what you do and where you live, you are always scared of trying new things as far as their results are concerned. That’s is because you start judging your caliber or your intelligence on the basis of those of results, which may not be up to the mark at the first go. Considering the fact that you hardly get desirable results whenever you try out a thing for the first time (such as play music, give a speech, and start teaching at school or college etc.,) it eventually makes you believe that you are not good at it and you will never be able to perform it effectively even in future no matter how hard you work towards it.

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Improvisation Is For Everyone - Not Just Jazz Players

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Tonic: The Music Improvisation Card Game, launched on Kickstarter this week.

Designed to teach students and seasoned players how to relax and improvise freely and naturally, 
Tonic is an unconventional approach rooted in the free jazz and modern classical movements.

Tonic takes the form of a card and dice game that requires no theory or prior experience to play. Instead, each card has a prompt that challenges players to create a short piece of music on the spot according to easy-to-understand guidelines.

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Grammy-Winning Producer Don Sickler Launches Jazzleadsheets.com- The Newest Tool for Jazz Music

 Don Sickler is no stranger to the jazz world. With over 30 years experience performing, arranging, producing, teaching and publishing he has seen this industry through the eyes of a musician and a businessman. He went on a quest to create a unique way to help musicians enhance their craft in the new digital age through the music of dedicated jazz artists. jazzleadsheets.com is the result of this quest: a resource for instrumental musicians, singers, and educators alike to find both new and old music from many of the greatest jazz composers of all time.

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