Improvisation Class

Many students share the belief that they need to know a lot more than is necessary before they can improvise. It really has to do with the fear of the unknown.

The Improvisation Class will help you to conquer this fear, giving you more inside knowledge and teach you how to express your emotions, your ideas and your messages to your audience.

In improvisation class you will learn

How to base your improvisation on Chords and the Key. Rules of building a phrase using: Chordal notes, Turning notes, Passing notes, Leaning, Delaying, Anticipated notes, Chromatic and a mixture of the above.

  • Knowledge of chords and scales
  • Chord/Scale relationship
  • The unique “colours” of each different note in a scale
  • Developing a rich collection of scale patterns
  • Phrase constructions
  • Streams of creative musical phrases
  • Using your occasional mistakes to build musical phrases
  • Modal improvisation
  • Comping Rhythms
  • And many more
Stage Fright
Brief history of Clarinet
Klezmer
Brief history of Saxophone
 
 
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