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Jazz Blog, Ear Training, Jazz Trumpet, Atlanta Jazz A cohesive solo flows together and has a sense of logic to it. Each part builds upon the last, whether rhythmically or melodically, as it guides you to the end of the solo. The sense of cohesion makes you feel like the solo is a deliberate and well-constructed piece of music. The opposite of a cohesive solo is one that meanders without any sense of direction or purpose. NOTE: When I described a meandering solo in the previous paragraph, I wasn't talking about free or avant-garde jazz. There are several ways to build a cohesive solo, but I think the easiest method is through the use of motif development. You can use motif development in a variety of ways when creating a solo. Motifs are also a great way to start a solo. In the clip below, I start out with a 5-note motif that contains the notes of the blues scale in descending order. iwasdoingallright - audio clip - Simple solo with a single motif. Create a relatively short motif with 3-5 notes from the blues scale.
The Key Bop Chronicles | a blog about improvisation, piano, and the Jazz tradition In a recent appearance on the NPR quiz show ‘Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”, the actor Kevin Bacon was asked how he felt about ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’, a game which was invented by college students in the 1990s inspired by Bacon’s seeming omnipresence in movies of that era. (I recently ate an excellent takeout burger from Bad Apple, a Chicago bar owned by Craig Fass, one of the inventors of the ‘Six Degrees’ game.) Bacon told Peter Sagal, the host of ‘Wait, Wait’, that he was initially ‘horrified’ to learn of the game. In its simplest form, the game allows one movie buff to challenge another to start with any combination of a film and an actor, move to another film which shares at least one actor with the first film, and continue the sequence until they find the shortest possible path to a film involving Bacon. Bacon said of his initial reaction, ‘I really thought it was a joke at my expense.
Jazz Improvisation techniques, tips, & inspiration - JazzAdvice.com Combo for Evere: Comment jouer du Jazz. Comment jouer du Jazz. Il faut distinguer deux disciplines l'improvisation comme soliste (en anglais : 'improviser' ou 'soloist') d'une part, et d'autre part l'accompagnement ('comping') comme équipier ('sideman').Il faut distinguer ensuite deux pratiques, à savoir l'apprentissage et l'exécution. Cette distinction est beaucoup plus subtile qu'il n'y paraît au premier abord. En effet, à la grande différence de l'apprentissage de la musique classique, le but de l'apprentissage du jazz est l'exécution improvisée, et non pas l'exécution exacte, fidèle à une quelconque partition (il n'y a pas de 'texte', au sens où on l'entend en classique). Le but de l'apprentissage du jazz est de parvenir à jouer autre chose que ce que l'on a appris. "uun- et- deeux- et- troois- et- quaat- et- uun-…" rythme binaire avec 8 croches par mesure, de longueur inégale et d'importance inégale ('croches swinguées'). "un- et- deux- et- trois- et- quat- et- un-…" "uun- ET! - soit quatre noires inégales : "Uuuun- DEUX! D.
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