The skill you should master to improvise better
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- How do you learn to play jazz? How can you develop this skill?
One way is to copy what the greats played. (Transcribing for instance)
This method is terrific for acquiring vocabulary and training the ear.
However it has one BIG limitation.
It does not help us learn to develop
our own lines and phrases.
The good news is THERE is a SOLUTION.
That is to take language from the great jazz continuum,
Or indeed anywhere and develop it. To make our own variations .
This is exactly what I am going to show you how to do in todays video.
As raw material I am going to take the funky bass line of Miles Davis All blues
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Great video. I want to add something. When you take some one else’s phrase and make it your own always do it first with your voice. Sing it until you are absolutely sure you are hearing every note. This way you are committing these new phrases to musical memory not motor memory. Musical memory is far far superior to motor memory.
Next sing the phrase at about half speed and then try to play it automatically on your instrument (sing along or not). No hunting for the right note. Just play it. If you make a mistake just keep going if you can. If you can’t then, to prevent engaging motor memory, change to a new key, sing it and try to play it automatically in the new key.
The goal is to get cool stuff into your awesome musical memory, draw upon that palette in your musical memory, and play these spontaneous musical memories automatically without thinking about how to play them. Make your instrument your second voice!
You can do it if I can! And when you can do it … wow! It’s a whole new musical world for you and the listener.
totally agree!
Great advice Cal Cal, thanks.
Beautifully explained and demonstrated - at an accessible speed, unlike many instructional videos which have the teacher showing off.
Here you are....!! Nick, always giving....!!! thanks broder...!!!
Wonderful ! I'm still working on the Fred Wesley solo in 12 keys 😅 and with this I have enough for the hole summer 😄👍🏽🎺
Great lesson! Thanks.
I’ve often though some bebop phrases sound similar to Irish jigs, it’s not inconceivable that it was an influence-nice one many thanks
dont think so
@@nefermawuko8203 yeh good one, can’t argue with that👍
True
Um. No.
@@newagain9964 great response but your 100000% physically wrong - Charlie Parker (probably) had to walk past an Irish bar with its doors open - FACT!
Please continue to make more new content. 👍
I sing also. Soo I have to spend time memorizing songs. Your videos are invaluable and concise. I made my best gains when I set a schedule. Transcribing. Scales Chord arpeggios ect
the most important skill I'm trying practice is: how to keep practicing and not watch youtube
I watch good stuff like this, actually
@@psilocybe_reptiliensis you probably didn't get the point - it doesn't really matter what you watch, if it steals hours away from your practicing. Are you able to tell when you got enough new ideas from RUclips and now it's time to practice the ideas? In my experience, each new idea takes at least 1-2 hours of good concentrated practice to even begin to get an initial feeling of how the idea might actually incorporate into my playing.
@@yzimsx I agree 100 %
What are we doing here then 😅?
@@benoitmercier7592 procrastinating, avoiding practice i.e. learning
showing things in this level of minutae and repetition is awesome.. it lets me hear things properly (which, BTW I think is the best part of transcription.. makes you really listen)
thanks, I like minutae
Thanks Nick!
Excellent overview.
Good heavens what fantastic videos this guy does !!!
Fun stuff. Good ear training for minor and major 3rd, flat five, etc. Variations are inspirational!
I love this channel!
Dude i love your content and just bought a book of yours and its skyrocketing my playing already as i had technical ability but zero sense of theory- but your room/studio setup and cabin? Amazing. Do you live there full time? looks like heaven.
Excellent!
спасибо! интересные упражнения!
Grande maestro!
Please continue to do the part 3 of Mr.Stevie Wonder's "You and I". I've been waiting for it so long
Well, that's how I do, I transcribe phrase and use the vocabulary in there to make new stuff, most of the time I got so many variations I forget the original 😂
Oh, that makes so much sense! I'm only a wee beginner to improvisation, and I've struggled with the concept of "copy the master's licks". How would that be different than just "reading the sheet music page"? To mold the licks and create variations, now that makes sense. 💡
@@luvkayakn use your creativity. Your ear will judge.
Keep in mind, it's a never ending process at least for me
@@DaddySantaClaus I've been actively learning improvisation about 5 years, and still on basics 😀 It's definitely a lifelong journey
Great vid! Getting rhapsody in blue vibes…
Fun with the blues scale!
Thank you for making this video. Almost falling into Itsbynne Reel. Kept waiting for you to side slip into a diminished blues tonality ala Brecker
Always great lessons! Thank you!
Great concept
Great sax tone and vibrato.. Sounds very LA... Reminds me of the Dave Weckl Band
Sensacional!!!
a similar realisation i had a few years back. i saw no Matter how much solos i learnt when improvising or creating a solo for a song ( rock / blues) it didn't sound "good". thats when I stopped learning new solos instead i tried to listed to their, what i call "nuisances" . what makes a blues solo a blues solo. and when i applied those nuisances even in a four note lick it sounded more like blues than what i was doing for years.
great video. my main concern about transription and learning licks and even small phrases: hoe to get this stuff into my non thinking impro? is it just "doing and doing and doing and waiting"? ho and when does it happen, that it lands in the fingers, subconscious and unconscious?
Thank you very much very interesting and informative. Rex Rozario.
hey there is Yusa there!!!!
Thanks!!
Fantástico 👏👏👏
Is it possible to use rythmic permutation to find some new variation ? without struggling with harmony
yes, I have a video on this!
I thought Nick would open one eye at the variation point. 😁
100 %
The irish gique sounds more like Gerswin.
capo!
The man plays 30 notes per second. How can I do transcription anyway, I wouldn't be here if I did it.
If someone told you you could become a great author by copying books by other people you'd think they were nuts. Same thing.
Hold on. Who said anything about being a great author or musician? The advice I give here will certainly help someone become better at improvising and composing. The only thing nuts is that it is so overlooked.
@@JazzDuets You may be right. But transcribing is hardly overlooked. I'll tell you what I think is overlooked and taken for granted by good players, and that is playing phrases. There is always emphasis on scales and chords, but it's taken for granted that someone will play phrases that are the right length and make sense. It ain't necessarily so, it's more than playing the notes in the chord, there has be some kind of coherent thought behind the phrase, and it has to be the right length. So, for example, one of the things I used to practice is just playing the chords to a tune and tapping out, i.e. the rhythm, for phrases to play, and then figuring out the notes later. Doing both at the same time was more than I could handle, and still is when presented with a tune like Little Sunflower, which has a long stretch of Bm (alto) and keeping coherent phrases and your place in the tune ...ain't so easy.
Jazz Duets translates to Jesuits in the captioning.