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02-11-2021, 11:40 AM #76Dutchbopper GuestOriginally Posted by kris
DB
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02-11-2021 11:40 AM
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Thanks DB for posting this video.This shows how to practice when you are serious about playing jazz.
Jazzingly
Kris
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I have been playing with this tune on and off all day today, since we're all frozen in with an ice storm! I don't know why, but I just love playing over this tune. Yes, being a somewhat unaccomplished player, I have a small group of ideas that I use a lot, even trying little variations but still, having more fun than I've had in ages just playing a tune. I have done more of "my own" improvisation on this than I've done on any previous tune on any of the study groups on this forum. I haven't tried to work out ideas in advance. I've just been looping 2 choruses and playing my heart out.
Not making history here, just music.
Here are some odd observations. When I was doing a clip today, not for posting but just my daily clip or two so I can hear what I'm doing, I noticed I am not even thinking about "the form." It seems like I'm moving pretty naturally inside the form of the tune and not fretting or worrying about "Oh no! Where Am I???"
The second thing is until just a moment ago, I haven't even thought about tempo. But when I checked, it looks like my track is running about 190 bpm. Guys, for me, that is scorching. I am not a fast player. Learning the Jimmy Raney solos, I celebrated when I got the tempo up to 170-180. But I've been having fun with YBS here at nearly 200 bpm all week.
A third thing is kind of strange. I know I'm playing a lot of lame pentatonic scales and arpeggios and such, but somehow the fact that I'm not planning them, just letting the track run, taking a breath, and letting loose... well that's been liberating.
If this thread does nothing else for me, it has got me back to attempting to improvise for a solid block of time every day, and while I'd not put my lines up against you guys, who are much more dedicated to this than I am, still I'm feeling a lot of joy in this.
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I don't know this tune and I barely have time to work on lines for my own stuff, so I'll wait for the next one.
But, given time, that's what I would personally do: work with it and maybe come up with something original, maybe not. Transcribing and learning note for note the work of very talented (and often very idiosyncratic) players can be a great workout for your fingers, but you often end up falling back on those lines through lack of working on your own voice. Seen it happen at countless jams, sort of: you integrate those lines or they integrate you?
Anyway, do whatever works for you.
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but you often end up falling back on those lines through lack of working on your own voice. Seen it happen at countless jams, sort of: you integrate those lines or they integrate you?
Last go. Yes, I know it's not fast, it's not Charlie Parker, but I enjoyed it. None of it was premeditated, there are no set licks. All take 1.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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