LESSSON 1

Improvisation Study
Ask yourself:
what why for?
best outcome?
Main inner obstacle ?
I will … (action or thought).
Limitations=Personality

So i ask you now

Can you read?
Play in Tempo?
do you know Chord Symbols?
can you improvise? just over record noodling around copying

math course = formula = immediately application to solve problems.

music the learning experience is subjective.
learning a new language.
takes time - assimilate memory
10000 hours practice.
No immediate drastic change but perseverance and grit will make you get there.
Life philosophy

MUSIC AS A LANGUAGE

SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND IMPROV ISED MUSIC

THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
 SPOKEN LANGUAGE

VOCAB
WORDS
SOUNDS (SCALES) COLORS

GRAMMAR
CORRECT ORDER SENTENCE
CHORD PROGRESSION

CONTENT
EXPLANATION STORY
TELLING DEVELOPING MELODIC THEME

COMUNICATING COMPOSITIONAL

STRUCTURE

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPOKEN WORD AND IMPROVISATION

brain functions same than speech
how speech works?
urge to communicate
my brain calls from my memory WORDS that go with it. = DO MENOR
connected to this item in my memory
We also have GRAMMAR
Can't spout random words Able to arrange them structure understand.
primary language as a child, imitating and listening,
trial and error, everybody encourages to learn
then school study grammar ++++ VOCAB
CONTENT.
order
End of story Beginning of story Hi by
Tell about sax what it is made which year etc
Story Telling.
vocabulary, grammar, content = improvising.
vocabulary = notes, sounds, Colors.
note names, Note sounds = scales and chords --- memory
grammar to music.
Conversation
timing, harmonic rhythm
tension and resolution
musical sentences

CONTENT= Story telling. logical sentences one after another development

conclusion

SOLO CREATION- project to the people catch their attention

three elements of language = improvisation
THINK ABOUT IT
HOW TO PRACTICE THIS?

STORY TELLIN
Standard Improvisation teaching/system
Books and teaching learning licksin all keys.
I like Different of approach
Spoken word = French vacation
phrase book memorize but no real conversation.

ASSIGNMENT
Solo análisis
• Style
• Tempo
• Scales used in the melody
• Song Form
• How each of the sections differ from one another
• Any patterns that you see emerge throughout the solo

SOLO CREATION

LESSON 2

IMPROVISER'S VOCABULARY:
Chordtones basic triads ear fill in the holes
Scales colors

CHORDSCALES