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Whether or not you’re an improvising musician or not, creativity is an integral part of this profession. We need creativity not only to find the best ways to play a passage, express a cadenza, whale a bluesy solo, or play the most interesting chord progressions over a modal tune. We need creativity first and foremost, [...]
Building an Improvisational Vocabulary Download the Video
I’d like to take this moment to apologize to all subscribers. I’ve been drastically delayed in providing a video lesson this month due to some pretty heavy dental work I’ve had done that prevented me from being able to function well, nor speak clearly. I’ll get out a video and exercises as soon as I [...]
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The Whole Tone Scale and the Diminished Whole Tone Scale their uses. Download the Video From Wikipedia.org: In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole step. There are only two complementary whole tone scales, both six-note or hexatonic scales: {C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C} Synthesized [...]
Often times when we are improvising in jazz or any other idiom for that matter, we come to a point where we are in search for new ideas. There has never been a shortage of scales and patterns to try and utilize. Improvisation can also be looked upon as spontaneous composition. So what about using one of the essentials for composition?
I have often had this experience with some of my students; they practice patterns, a study, an exercise or tune, and they get stuck at some point and can’t seem to understand why they can’t get further. They tell me, “I’ve practiced it 100 times, but I can’t seem to get it into my head”. [...]
Attention!: I have been having problems with this month’s video. After recording this month”s lesson, it had come out with very poor quality and I’ll have to re-record this lesson. It should be done this week. In the meantime, I provide here the texts and examples and exercises this month. Please excuse the delay and [...]
All those who have read my articles and know my books, you’ve read that how I evangelize the benefits of “Improv Etudes”. In this article I’m going to attempt to explain some of those benefits. First of all, “What are Improv Etudes?“ Improv Etudes are comparable to Jazz Etudes or Studies with the special hook. As Jazz [...]
This month’s lesson concentrates on the use of various pentatonic scales. They are NOT only for beginners!
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