(Berklee Guide). Learn to play jazz harmonies and rhythms on the flute. This book combines Joe Viola's two classic texts of the Technique of the Flute series: "Chord Studies" and "Rhythm Studies." You will learn melody, harmony, rhythm and improvisation techniques. In "Chord Studies" you will practice jazz harmonies and scales. In "Rhythm Studies" you will practice rhythms in simple and compound meters, with a variety of articulations, dynamics and phrase structures.