Melodia | Melody | Melodie

Latin music has it all: hot rhythms, passionate melodies, lush harmonies, and all that exotic percussion! Now you can become a student of Latin music and see for yourself what all the excitement is about. From Latin-rock to Latin-jazz, from the Caribbean to the Gulf of Mexico, this play-along book/CD series covers many Latin styles. Each book includes 10 original works and the CD includes recordings of a full performance followed by the accompaniment only.

The ten original works in this book/CD pack by Rik Elings are largely based on the chord charts of well-known jazz standards. Creating new melodies for existing charts is a composition technique often used by jazz musicians. This technique offers students of this book the opportunity to improve their skills at improvising to chord charts of well-known standards. The CD includes solos with accompaniment as well as accompaniment-only tracks for each piece.