Download or read book Chop-Monster: Piano Accompaniment, Book 1 written by Shelly Berg and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chop-Monster is a sequential jazz improvisation method by acclaimed jazz pianist and educator Shelly Berg that utilizes a "call-and-response" approach: students listen to a jazz idea, imitate it until it is internalized, and then "try it on their own." In Chop-Monster 1, students will hear and improvise to the Ima7, iimi7, and V7 chords in the key of B-flat, plus a basic blues progression.