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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:20 am
hey guys, just a place for you guys to tell us your favorite improv techniques smile have fun
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:26 pm
umm....i personally have none....but here's what a guy i asked about this told me:
1) get a recording of the song and listen to it about a hundred times
2) play confidently, he hears music like a story, and solos are like you telling a story, so you have to "tell" the audience that you story is worth listening to (kinda weird, but makes sense)
3) go over the changes, pretty much just play random notes within the scale (i have no idea what the changes are exactly, they SOUND like little key signature changes within the music almost, they should be written into the music if your part is supposed to solo)
yeah, i need to put those into practice.....need to find an improv lesson book......
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:22 am
I love soloing! All you have to do is practice at home with a bunch of recordings and play along with the solos for fun and just do your own thing with them. Listen for cool things a guy does and try to play them on your own horn or whatever you are playing. I play trumpet so i love emulating other trumpet players tricks and stuff but i also LOVE sax and love trying to copy the tricks they do. After awhile you will hear familiar chords in your school band and be like, "oh i can do that trick now and this melody and go from this note to that note and yea!" haha well something like that....i don't know that's how i learned. I'm not very good with theory so i just basically go off my ear and that's worked out pretty darn well for me so far but i know I'm gonna need the theory sooner or later.
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:12 pm
yeah playing by ear doesn't work for me i need blackdots, and slow repetition sweatdrop heh I HATE IT!!! so annoying
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Fashionable Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:56 pm
I listen to th rythmn section and read the chord changes.
Actually first i see what kind of form the changes are in then i listen tot he rythmn section and play whatever comes to my head.
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Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:22 pm
In my jazz band, my BD asks for volunteers for solos and we get a pretty decent number of volunteers but he always gives me a look and announces that "more people need to be willing to solo". I think I could be good at it . . . but the prospect terrifies me. And by solo, I of course mean improv.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:01 am
Your rhythm is much more important than the actual notes you play. Remember, a different rhythem on the same note is WAY more interesting than the same rhythm on notes in the chord. Good advice? Tell me if you want to know more. I play bass btw.
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:37 pm
I listen to a song over and over again, then play the song over and over again. Then, I just kind of, go, I guess. (following chords of course, lol)
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:57 pm
GAHH! I can play a written solo on the spot [like sightread]
but I CANNOT improvise a solo to save meh life. x_x
We have this regional band competition coming up in a few months and my band director is expecting me to play an improv solo and I'm spazzing because I can't do improv, but my friends see me as the person that always chickens out at the last minute so I wanna prove them wrong. I can do this but I need help figuring out a technique that works for me.
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:11 pm
oh man i SUCK at improv... at least with an instrument.
singing, i can improvise no problem. but i couldn't improvise on my trumpet to save my life.
I even took an improvisation class at the local college. the teacher was fantastic. everyone else who couldn't improvise learned almost immediately, but even at the end of the course i was terrible. i had no idea what notes to play because, put simply, i don't know my scales (i know: shame shame).
so the instructor told me on the second to last day (right before our final test) to just look at the piece and pick out notes from the piece to play.
well i passed!
so that's a good technique if you've got the piece right in front of you and you don't know what notes to play.
just look around the piece for notes. be careful about chord changes though.
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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:46 pm
Improv is my THANG! I can't play without throwin some improv in wherever i can! JUST FEEL IT! you can do it!
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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:17 am
for jazz band, we play at the basketball games as the wicked awesome "jazz-pep band". we play all of our normal songs as well as two pep/jazz adaptions. When we play the fight song, since there isn't a part for piano, I improv chords in the key that it's in. B-flat if I'm right... >>;;
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:07 pm
It all depends for my entire band. Sometimes we will have someone make something up on their own. I was told to do long, loud, and proud chords. Along with some quick flashy notes that show off some skill. If my band doesn't do it like that, they will have a more experienced player play a solo along with them. Such as the more experienced player goes first because they can start the rhythm. Then the lower experienced player plays something to compliment the first solo after he is finished. Sometimes they will go back and forth, like 5 measures for the first player then 5 for the second and so on like that until the end of the solo. For each time using the loud, long and proud improv. Does that make sense?
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