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Woohoo!! Awesome so glad to have you here 🙂
I promise, being a nice guy is not just an act. I feel I am genuinely a happy person and I have music as a career to thank for this sunny disposition haha… Thanks for the kind words about the live stream I have really enjoyed getting to produce them
I just have 2 basic rules that I always apply to anybody studying jazz and improvisation:
1. Don’t compare yourself to anybody but yourself. It will take the joy out of the process and cause you to practice things that you don’t need to be working on.
2. Always be working on a song and use the song and its chord progression to improve your toolkit as an improviser.As a classical player myself I can totally relate with you on the feeling of being ‘stuck’. It definitely will take some work and repetitions of ideas but the main thing that we all need to do is improvisers is relocate the visual element (reading music) of playing music to the ear. This is where the exercises over chord changes come into play.
When you are able to take musical ideas, shapes and melodies and apply them to any chord you see… BOOM! You are improvising! People a lot of times don’t realize that it is that simple I don’t think. The difficult part is training your brain to think this way. We’ll get there!
Thanks for joining the studio and just one more rule: Ask me any questions that may come up as you are looking through material. I’m here to help! A lot of time you will not be the only person that has a question and this helps me understand how to be a better teacher.
Looking forward to hearing you play and working on some tunes! Have a great weekend 🙂