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Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: coldheartedfreak on September 11, 2005, 05:36:31 AM

hey guys ive been playing at my chruch for around 4 months already or so yup but ive been finding that my playing has been rather boring. yup so i need some help with improvisation. is there like any kind of stuff u can read up on or try to improve? or is it all just inspiration. someone told me that theres a technique to it or something but yeah. help pls +)

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: fenderjazz on September 13, 2005, 02:27:18 PM

Pick some people who you think are good improvisors and start studying their playing. Mimick what they are doing. Once you can play what they are playing note-for-note, try to change it and make it your own. This will help you develop your own musical vocabulary and after awhile improvisation will become a second nature to you. Learn everything you can about scales and modes and their relationship to different chord progressions.

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: Muziqmann on September 13, 2005, 05:22:21 PM

Learn your scales, major, minor, pentatonic and blues and play with the notes in the scales.

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: playhear on September 13, 2005, 06:02:02 PM

I like to hum a riff. Then, I try to play what I hummed.

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: coldheartedfreak on September 14, 2005, 08:50:28 AM

thanks guys. i'll try to learn pantatonic and blues scales as well as jazz. any help with some jazz here?

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: playhear on September 14, 2005, 09:13:18 AM

I refer to this site a lot:
http://www.petethomas.co.uk/jazz-theory.html

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: JoyCH on September 14, 2005, 11:08:06 AM

Try www.apassion4jazz.com.

Joy

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: keyplyr on September 15, 2005, 12:52:32 AM

Quote from: JoyCH

Try www.apassion4jazz.com - Joy

Actually, it's www.apassion4jazz.net    8)  

Title: Help with improvisation
Post by: coldheartedfreak on September 16, 2005, 03:24:09 AM

thanks man =) anyone got any chords for like during preaching or altercall time? some soothing chords?