Amadie Jimmy, Jimmy Amadie

Harmonic Foundation for Jazz & Pop Music

Unique method for creating chord voicings and harmonizing a melody. Learning Jimmy's harmonization methods will enhance your personal creativity, make the world of harmony a friendly world to explore, and create limitless possibilities. Mr. Amadie uses his simple techniques over several well-known standards to clearly demonstrate it's ease of use and dramatic musical impact.
Unlike other jazz harmony books that simply provide a few harmonic choices, this book also teaches you how to 'think' about jazz harmony - providing the 'why to play' as well as the 'what to play.' This added dimension means you will never be at a loss for new harmonic ideas once you understand the rules of the 'Amadiean Creed.'
For all instruments; students, teachers, arrangers, composers, and performers. 166 spiral-bound pages for easy opening.

This text, using a unique method founded on 5-note harmony, will help students, teachers, and pro players who need to know how to voice chords and harmonize a melody. Using a step-by-step approach resulting from the author's years of experience as a pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher, its guidelines will help each player develop his creative potential to the fullest.
In combination with his second book, 'Jazz Improv: How To Play It And Teach It', which follows the evolution of jazz through a number of styles, it becomes a comprehensive treatise for learning the essentials of harmony and improvisation.