Fundamentals again

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                                 🖊️🪘Season 2. Episode. 5. FUNDAMENTALS AGAIN✏️✏️🎤 

It also means knowing the chords of the key, so that you can play suitable notes over a progression in that key. Even if you don’t play chords on your instrument you can benefit from learning about the chords. For example, think in terms of arpeggios if you play a “melody instrument” like sax or trumpet.

All of these fundamentals may seem like a lot of theory and tedious exercises to practice, but these are the bedrock of all good improvisation. The frameworks they provide let you play freely and confidently, knowing that the notes you choose will sound good and the solos you create will sound musical.

Respect the fundamentals, and put in the time it takes to learn them. Up-and-down, forwards and backwards, and inside-out.

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Fundamentals

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                                 🖊️🪘Season 2. Episode 4. FUNDAMENTALS ✏️✏️🎤 

It’s easy to get carried away when learning to improvise, trying to integrate all sorts of advanced ideas and frameworks. But ask any of the most famous musicians and they’d tell you the same thing: you need to know the fundamentals. it’s all about fundamentals.

For improvisation to sound musical it needs to be based on the notes of the key you’re playing in. Otherwise you’ll just produce a jumble of discordant random-sounding pitches. To play notes from the key means knowing the scale, and to play in any key that means knowing how to play major and minor scales in all 12 keys. Ideally the melodic and harmonic minor, as these will serve different purposes for you in your improvisation.

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Enjoy making music

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                                 🖊️🪘Season 2. Episode 3. ENJOY MAKING MUSIC ✏️✏️🎤 

As you begin, and later whenever the task of learning to improvise seems to be too complicated or too challenging, return to this core philosophy: improvisation is about fun and freedom, about the pure enjoyment of music for music’s sake. Keep that in mind and you can’t go wrong.

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Get your head right

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                                 🖊️🪘Season 2. Episode. 2. GET YOUR HEAD RIGHT ✏️✏️🎤 

Improvisation success depends on your attitude. Before getting caught up in the details of learning to improvise, make sure you’re going in with the right philosophy about it. That doesn’t need to be sophisticated at all, it’s just having a clear answer to the question:

_What does improvising music mean to you?_

Does it mean freedom, creative expression, fun exhilaration and a new route to musical confidence?

Or does it mean danger, showing off, or a highly-advanced skill you only hope to some day obtain?

You can probably see which of these attitudes is going to lead to more improvisation success!

At its core, improvisation is about enjoying making music. It’s perhaps the purest form of musical expression and there’s a real beauty and elegance to the natural creativity it channels.

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The basics

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                                 🖊️🪘Season 2. Episode. 1. KNOW THE BASICS✏️✏️🎤 

Before you can make use of tactical advice, you need to have covered the basics. There’s no point learning shortcuts and accelerators if you haven’t even started on your improvisational journey!

       Along with the basics of improvisation you will want to learn some basic music theory to help you know what your options are and how notes, chords and rhythms work together to create great-sounding music.

Got the basic knowledge covered? Great! Then we can start looking at some specific tips to help you improve.

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Improvising in Music

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                        🖊️🪘Season 2. INTRODUCTION ✏️✏️🎤 

Thank God for the the season one experience, Hope you now understood what improvisation in music is about..... Please follow and study this season with your whole heart. God bless you... 

To become a great improviser you need to unleash your inner musical instinct and then learn to control it. Learning to improvise is a long-term mission, one which will push you to your musical limits and then beyond. You’ll need to be armed with some tips, tricks and strategies to help ensure you continually improve.

Although the details of how to improvise vary by instrument there are some tips and strategies you can apply no matter what instrument or style of music you play. 

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Conclusion

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                      🖊️🪘Season 1.. CONCLUSION🎷🎤

One of the utmost joys of being capable of playing a musical instrument is the ability to spontaneously create music on the spot. Improvising is essentially a form of composing and many musicians would say it’s the ultimate display of composition skill.

Whether you are an amateur, an experienced musician or a music guru, you can’t argue against the fact that improvising music skillfully is a powerful thing. It calls for creativity, commitment, willingness and readiness to always learn something new. It is a perfect way to create new music and improve existing pieces. Above all, remember that it is a skill that everyone can learn and perfect with practice.

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Record yourself

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                      🖊️🪘Season 1. Episode 6. RECORD YOURSELF🎷🎤

At the start of improvisation, it can be difficult to remember things you played and the tiny lessons you learn with each choice of notes you make. Recording your improvisations will help you remember your previous experiences and build on them. Remember you must listen back to your recording to get the benefit though! Listening to your recording will help you understand your *strengthens and weaknesses.* When you listen you can also pick up a cool idea from your recording and use it again to improve your improvisation next time.

This can be a challenge at first because it will really put you to the test: your attitude must stay positive (don’t get disheartened if you don’t sound great at first) and your ability to embrace mistakes (try to be objective about how well you recovered from any “bad” notes). Be willing to experience the discomfort of listening to yourself improvise badly at first, as it is the key to sounding better and better in time. Before you know it you’ll be able to return to those original recordings and say “Wow, look how far I’ve come!”.

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