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Learn to improvise - to play without music - not just by using your ears, but by using all that is between them as well.

You don't have to have any training in music to learn to use this method that professional musicians routinely use to play hundreds of songs without having to memorize each and every one of them. 

There's a beginner's route and an advanced route through the course material - and yes, even those with a degree in music will benefit a great deal, for all they have to do is put the knowledge they have already acquired into a new context and use it differently.  If you have no training at all, you will be taught the essential basics - and you can do this, and use this course, without learning notation - you can simply use numbers instead - which is what the pros do anyway.

80+ pages of text, diagrams, and scored music

(easier for thosewho read notes)!

Popular music in the western world is structured according to basic principles that occur over and over again.  If you understand these principles, you can improvise music from understanding, instead of illiterately playing by ear or just by rote from memory.  This improvisational music course will show you what the options are, what is going to happen next most of the time, and will enable you to 'just do it!'  Freedom from the tyranny of all those little black dots is a great experience.

Composers of popular music will be able to create on the basis of a simple, literate, logical system that will immediately be recognized as professional.

Performing musicians – whether rock, country, gospel, blues, commercial, studio or jazz – that haven't acquired this improvisational knowledge, will learn to play and think like real pros.

Church musicians also will to improvise accompaniments and 'flow in the Spirit' – playing any song, in any key, at any time, in any style, without written music on a non-stop basis.

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