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Improv Tip Week #22-More Digital Patterns

Welcome back to the blog as we’re going to continue our discussion on Digital Patterns this week! Last week we looked at some basics into digital patterns. This week, we’re going to talk about using one of last week’s patterns amd applying it to other key areas, showing some additional patterns and I’ll show you…

Improv Tip Week #21-Digital Patterns
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Improv Tip Week #21-Digital Patterns

Welcome back to the blog and checking out this week’s tip. We’re on Week #21 where we’ll be talking about Digital Patterns. A few weeks back when we talked about Key Fluency, one of our friends (Karel) left a comment about how we can use digital patterns to help get a better understanding of various…

October ’11 edition of "Teaching Music"
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October ’11 edition of "Teaching Music"

Hey Everyone, If you haven’t checked out this month’s edition of Teaching Music published by MENC, then you’ll want to check it out in the link below! Targeting: Improvisation With Purpose is featured in their Resources section on page 64. For those that don’t get the physical edition, you can check it out by going…

Improv Tip Week #19-Using the Melody p2
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Improv Tip Week #19-Using the Melody p2

Hey Everyone…welcome back to Week #19 where we’ll be going into the second part of our multi-week series on using the melody. But before we do that, I wanted to thank every one again that was at my clinic at Drake University’s Turner Jazz Center on Friday (Oct. 7th). I had a great time and…

Improv Tip Week #18-Using the Melody p1
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Improv Tip Week #18-Using the Melody p1

Hey Everyone-here we are again with week #18’s tip-Using the Melody. This is the first week of another one of our multi-week series. If you’ve done any studying of improvisation in jazz, you’ll hear or read at some point the suggestion of “use the melody as your guide.” This is an excellent suggestion, especially for…

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Improv Tip Week #17- Motifs part 3

Welcome back to week #17 where we’re going to finish up our current mini-series on motifs. We’ve looked at how we can develop motifs by changing up the rhythm and probably the most obvious: notes. This week we’re going to look at what we can do with changing the intervals and the shape/contour. For those…

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