Musicreation is a book/CD set that lets you be creative -- and have fun -- while learning the building blocks of music. In fact, users are improvising right from the first lesson. The method is suitable for learning on your own, or with a teacher. The key is that the method is highly interactive, with exercises that familiarize you with concepts by letting you play.

Musicreation gives you the tools to learn to improvise over existing songs, or to create your own songs. The concepts taught apply to rock, pop, country, blues, jazz, and other genres. Regardless of how far along you want to go in the book, you will find the instruction to be interactive, logical, and practical, so you can apply your knowledge in real life. Check out the table of contents.

Musicreation users have:

• tested out of college-level theory basics while still in high school;
• learned a crash-course in improvising to play at Stanford’s Jazz Camp;
• won Greg Kihn’s “Battle of the Classic Rock Bands” on 98.5 FM (San Jose, CA) in the high-school division; and
• enrolled at the prestigious Berklee College of Music to study jazz guitar.

About the authors
Michelle Pollace-Mills runs an editorial services business and is also a performing and composing musician. She earned a Bachelor's in English/Career Writing from San Jose State University (SJSU), did a stint as senior editor at a technology magazine, and now writes and edits for a client roster that includes music software companies, Silicon Valley start-ups, and well-known magazine and book publishers. She holds a minor in classical and jazz piano from SJSU and is multi-instrumentalist, having recorded and performed with Lou Harrison's internationally acclaimed Javanese Gamelan orchestra and with numerous cover bands and original projects in the San Francisco area. She she has just finished recording a CD with her latin/global jazz project, the Zarate Pollace Project. Her music partner is a guitarist/composer who has international Top 40 songwriting credits.

Suzanne Weller has been a music instructor for 30 years, teaching flute, piano, and guitar. She teaches privately in Los Gatos, California, at Joplin and Sweeney Music Company as well as in the public schools in Santa Cruz and San Jose, California. Suzanne earned a B.A. in Music performance from San Jose State University, with a minor degree in Child Psychology. She has augmented her classical training by studying jazz with Joe Davis at West Valley College, Bill Resch at San Jose City College, and Ray Brown at Cabrillo College. Currently Suzanne lives in the mountains outside Santa Cruz, California, where she is composing, recording, teaching, and performing with Serenata Flute and Guitar Duo and woodwinds duo The Baroque Winds.