Great approach. So many teachers and schools these days get students bogged down in modes and scales. Know the melody, feel the rhythm and learn the basic chord progression!
Miles Black in Vancouver taught me a similar approach and added a step (after the triad/7th chord improv) of soloing with only chord tones on the down beats and passing tones etc on the off beats. The other thing that works well for my brain is if I learn it from roman numerals and do it in a few keys. Those are the ones that really stick for me. Hope that's useful to somebody!
Wish I could understand. I understand playing the melody. Then you play the root notes of the chords correct? You lost me when you mentioned the chords? Are you only playing the notes of the triad chord and not the melody? Then not following what you did after that? Were you playing notes from the melody and triads in a random order?
After he played the melody, he improvised only using chord tones. The last time, he improvised with mainly cord tones, keeping the melody in mind for inspiration, and he said he was focusing on keeping time with the metronome.
Dang Bob, I never noticed how good you tone is on tenor before! You sounds so good!
Great approach. So many teachers and schools these days get students bogged down in modes and scales.
Know the melody, feel the rhythm and learn the basic chord progression!
This is a great, practical guide with excellent tips and structure
Wonderful insights. Thanks for this!
Bob, thanks for this offering, picked up a number of great practice ideas
@liteworker1 absolutely! this is not instrument specific.
bob youe are one of my favorite saxaphone players
Miles Black in Vancouver taught me a similar approach and added a step (after the triad/7th chord improv) of soloing with only chord tones on the down beats and passing tones etc on the off beats. The other thing that works well for my brain is if I learn it from roman numerals and do it in a few keys. Those are the ones that really stick for me. Hope that's useful to somebody!
Also, playing walking bass lines on the horn!
very instructive - thanx Bob
@liteworker1 Yes, of course, it's a method that can be applied to any instrument.
Belle leçon ..
singing the song with piano/guitar helps me.
Très intéressant ...
"and then the next step is just adding the notes.." k thanks bye LOL
but will definitely try that, seems a good way to do it
Wish I could understand. I understand playing the melody. Then you play the root notes of the chords correct? You lost me when you mentioned the chords? Are you only playing the notes of the triad chord and not the melody? Then not following what you did after that? Were you playing notes from the melody and triads in a random order?
After he played the melody, he improvised only using chord tones. The last time, he improvised with mainly cord tones, keeping the melody in mind for inspiration, and he said he was focusing on keeping time with the metronome.
@12345678910aaronable That's very kind. Thank you.
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