Episode 7 – We Need To Talk About Improvisation.

A Talk About Improvisation & How You Can Develop Your Creativity.

Learning to improvise is the Holy Grail for a most musicians. For some, however, it’s a never ending source of frustration. If you work hard on your technique, how can you then transform this into improvisations that you feel are from the heart and not just a bunch of pre-learned lick ideas. In this podcast, GMI founder Ged Brockie discusses improvisation and how you can develop it within your musical life.

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Podcast Ep 7 – Table Of Contents

• 1.12 Definition of improvisation.
• 2.30 The true reason behind technique.
• 5.00 How to understand the language of music.
• 7.15 The secret behind speaking the language of music.
• 8.20 Becoming fluent in the language of music.
• 10.27 Is improvisation really “making things up on the spot”?
• 13.00 The chords, scales and arpeggios to think about when improvising.
• 14.32 How to become a better improviser and the paradox.
• 15.30 What Joe Pass said about improvisation.
• 19.00 Making improvisation more complex than it needs to be.
• 20.00 An example of un-needed complexity and modes.
• 22.19 My approach to to learning how to improvise.
• 23.38 Contextualization in improvisation?
• 28.13 Summing up and final thoughts.

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