6 bad mistakes in jazz improvisation

6 Disastrous Mistakes You’re Making in Learning to Improvise

By

Eric

Ear Training, Jazz Advice and Tips, Perspectives

Learning to improvise is a life long pursuit. Constantly, we’re bombarded with information on how to improve. From the teachers that give us private lessons, to friends who recommend their personal practice routines, it seems there is improvement information coming from every direction! We’ll even purchase expensive books and videos, searching for  “the secret” (that …

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myths about jazz improv

4 More Myths About Jazz Improvisation

By

Eric

Jazz Advice and Tips, Myths

When your goal is to improve at a skill like improvisation, you will stop at nothing to gather as much information as you can. Your search leads you in every direction: out of print books, the method books that the masters studied, seeking out jazz gurus and famous teachers, and searching for bootleg recordings. Along …

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transcribing whole solos

Transcribing Whole Solos Is More Than You Thought

By

Forrest

Transcribing

In my lesson on Monday I talked about why you’re not getting the results you want from transcribing whole solos. For the most part, that article was written with respect to language: how to make useful language from a whole solo. While gathering, understanding, and implementing language is one of the most important aspects of …

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