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From the publisher, Bob Nirkind:
"The Touring Musician" helps performers at all levels of experience, and in all music genres, to take control of their careers. Authored by Hal Galper, an educator and professional pianist who has toured with a virtual Who's Who of jazz musicians, this book provides the successful career development and booking and touring techniques that Galper witnessed first-hand as a side man and that he later developed as a band leader, offering an inside look at the proven strategies used by some of music's finest talents. "The Touring Musician" contains:
Eleven sample worksheets and checklists, in a
ready-to-photocopy format, that will help keep information organized
Samples of the major types of legal documents involved in
booking a band
A step-by-step chapter explaining how to book and route a
sample tour, including five calendars and five budgets
Plus solid advice about how to research venue contacts, negotiate gigs and fees, manage band finances, coordinate promotional activities, and much, much more.
Forward Motion:
Hal Galper
198 page book w/ Online Audio Demonstration ($29.95)
“Galps sums it up in his own words at the beginning of Chapter Three: “Improvising is the reordering of the notes of a scale into their strongest melodic possibilities.” This book is chock full of ideas that most improvisers never thought of in such detail in order to achieve this “reordering”, or put simply, theme and variations ad infinitum. What Hal concentrates on for the most part is the very subject that is least discussed in texts of any sort, which is the use of jazz rhythm in order to improvise countless ways on a given line. With the emphasis on feeling the upbeat and half time as a measure of time along with other concepts Galper is explaining is offering countless ways of manipulating simple at first, and further on in the book, more complex material for unlimited possibilities. The Forward Motion theory uses concepts of displacement, sequential reordering, unusual accent points, appoggiaturas strategically placed and more.”
David Liebman
Important note: the musical examples in this book can be played on-line interactively, in your browser by going to a designated URL which is listed in the book.