As a member, you will determine these directions through your interest and involvement. Like the industry, the AFM is also changing and evolving, and its policies and programs will move in new directions dictated by its members. We find strength in adversity, and when the going gets tough, we get creative - all on your behalf. The AFM has a proud history of managing change rather than being victimized by it. The AFM can negotiate agreements and administer contracts, procure valuable benefits and achieve legislative goals. Experience has proven that collective activity on behalf of individuals with similar interests is the most effective way to achieve a goal. And now there are more benefits available to AFM members than ever before, including a multi-million dollar pension fund, excellent contract protection, instrument and travelers insurance, work referral programs and access to licensed booking agents to keep you working.Īs an AFM member, you are part of a membership of more than 80,000 musicians. From ragtime to rap, from the early phonograph to today's digital recordings, the AFM has been there for its members. Now you can see the logic behind all those chord-changes and hear jazz standard chord progressions by simply following the Symbology in this Collection.Now is the right time to become an American Federation of Musicians member.

Discuss concepts such as harmonic progressions, turn-arounds, direct and pivot modulations.

Print hand-outs as Harmony Exercises and Tests in which the student has to figure out the chord changes based on harmonic functions.Learn how to follow bass-lines by looking at Arrows & Brackets Analysis.

Play and improvise out of harmonic functions instead of chord changes, in any key.Build the habit of looking at jazz standards from a Functional Harmony Perspective.This book can help the learning process in multiple ways, such as: Click on any scale or harmonic function to see a dedicated page (and check if your answer was correct). It’s all there in the tunes! Discover it from an insightful, mature approach: Functional Harmony and Jazz Harmonic Symbology.Īll ready and set to go worksheets with complete and detailed Harmonic Progressions, Harmonic Analysis, Chord Scales and Arrows & Brackets Analysis. Learn essential harmonic concepts using actual jazz standard repertoire: from II V I progressions to the use of subV7s, to borrowing chords from the minor mode. This is an invaluable resource for all Jazz Harmony teachers and students. Each worksheet contains the full harmonic analysis of a jazz tune in which you must provide the chord changes. 1300+ Jazz Standard Progressions with Full Harmonic Analysis, Chords, Chord-scales and Arrows & Brackets Analysis in four volumes.ġ300+ Jazz Harmony Worksheets to master harmonic progressions in the Jazz Vocabulary.

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