Exploring the Blues with Judy Niemack (Hear It and Sing It!)

Hear It and Sing It! Exploring the Blues is an effective tool for learning to sing and improvise on blues. Designed for people who love to sing, as well as for students and teachers in vocal jazz programs, it includes a step-by-step approach to learning blues lyrics, forms, harmony, scales and improvisation, with a brand new repertoire of songs. Vocal examples followed by accompaniment-only tracks make learning easy and enjoyable. New songs include lyrics added to compositions by jazz greats Dexter Gordon (plus lyrics to his solo), Johnny Griffin, Gigi Gryce, Julian Priester and Norman Simmons as well as compositions by Judy Niemack and Sheila Jordan. The book includes: blues forms, scales and harmony; transcriptions of exercises and improvised solos; accurate lead sheets for 14 contemporary blues songs; examples of 12 different blues forms; scat syllables; blues riffs; “Voices in Blues” history chapter; Listening and repertoire suggestions. The CDs include: 14 songs and exercises sung by Judy Niemack, Sheila Jordan, Mark Murphy and Darmon Meader; “Hear It and Sing It” blues warm-ups, riffs, scales and harmony; recordings of each song featuring vocal plus accompaniment-only; exciting accompaniment tracks by top New York City jazz musicians; and more...

Wonderful book by an outstanding vocalist and Instructor I highly recommend it for teachers who want to add new warm-ups and take me to their lessons and also for students who really want to take a risk and steady jazz solo wing and your training on their own

Love the vocal exercises! Someone recommended this CD to me, and he shared that he has been doing these vocal excercise for over two years. He is an accomplished musician who has excellent vocals. I find that my listening and vocals become more sensitive, with these excercises.

Beautifully written, demonstrated and accompanied! A fantastic tool for teaching students who want to learn to sing riffs in any pop idiom and a great introduction to blues for those who are unfamiliar with the genre. A "must have" for today's voice instructor.

I found this book very useful for me ! It has many live examples and exercises. Comparing with other books I had - this book gives you professional workouts in very simple and pleasant manner. I have new vocal experience and a lot of fun!Thank you!

Using this as part of a jazz vocal class. Have learned so much already on both the blues and scatting. Can't wait to continue the learning.

This book CD is fun! I'm enjoying vocalizing every day with this book.

Exploring the Blues has a lot of good stuff in it, but...The scat exercises drive me nuts. The scat exercises are tongue twisters and hard to follow. Besides, I doubt that Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson ever did much scatting.This book is more like blues for jazz singers.

my singing teacher recommended this, and it’s a great teaching aid. I thought it would come with CDs, but you access the audio via their web site, which is actually much easier, as you can control the play on the computer screen. Really excellent

Perfekt für mein Selbststudium geeignet. Judy fackelt gar nicht lange, da wird gleich von Anfang an gescattet was das Zeug hält, aber so sympathisch und motivierend, dass die Hemmungen schnell verflogen sind. Tolle Sache! Ich kann es kaum erwarten von der Arbeit nach Hause zu kommen und zu üben.Achtung: hohe Suchtgefahr im positivsten Sinne :-)

¡¡¡Soy profesor de canto e improvisación de Jazz & Blues, y valoro este libro como EXCEPCIONAL!!!Sono professore di canto e improvvisazione Jazz & Blues, e giudico questo libro come ECCEZIONALE!!!I'm a teacher of Singing Techniques & Jazz & Blues Improvisation: this book is one of the most complete and useful that I ever watched!Bravo, Judy Niemack! An Extraordinary Teacher and Performer!!!And the contributions of Darmon Meader, Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy: WOW!!!

Really enjoying the exercises and I find the authors approach is spot on. I look forward everyday working with this book.

Great Book with very clear cut instructions. Deals with blues in a standard manner . There are many improvisation techniques which can even guide you beyond the scope of this book. I am glad that I bought it. So if you are into jazz, blues, harmony then just go for it without any further delay .