Rhythm First! - A Beginner's Guide to Jazz ImprovisationThe first book to teach students to start soloing using rhythms instead of scales and chords. In a step by step fashion, Rhythm First! builds up the student's library of rhythmic figures and has them playing along with the accompanying CD to get the sound and feel of jazz soloing under their fingers. Melodically, the book starts with playing simple rhythmic figures on any note, then on the tonic of the F blues scale, followed by the tonic and one