Improv Tip Week #24-Intervalic Series-Triad Pairs 1
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Improv Tip Week #24-Intervalic Series-Triad Pairs 1

Triad Pairs 1 Welcome to week #24 where we’re going to start a new series on intervalic improvisation. We’ve covered a lot of linear topics the past 23 weeks, but I strongly believe that every improviser should use (or at least be somewhat familiar) every tool available to them. Intervalic improvisation is a tool that…

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Improv Tip Week #23-Let It Breathe

If this is your first time visiting this blog, I wanted to say welcome and invite you to check out the past posts in this blog. For those that are returning-welcome back to Week #23 where we’re going to talk about Let It Breathe. This week’s tip doesn’t have any musical examples or any exercises,…

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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