[Harp-L] Jazz Imnprovisising on the chromatic

[The Iceman]

jazz improv??


Start simply. Get a root note drone going (synth, organ w/weight on a key, whatever) and then take the major scale and play one note at a time - LONG TONE - sustained for as long as you can and, while doing this, learn to really listen. This note will have a definite color or some type of gravitational pull in conjunction with the root note drone. Learn to "feel" it's character.


Each note will start to seem like a different crayola crayon color, and you pick and choose the color you want to paint your musical picture.


Eventually, if you really relax into this, you may even find that the note you are playing begins to suggest the next note for you to choose.


It's fun and easy, kids!



-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Vigouroux <laurentharp at xxxxx>
To: Joseph Leone <3N037 at xxxxx>; Rick Dempster <rickdempster33 at xxxxx>
Cc: harp-l <harp-l at xxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Jan 23, 2018 3:34 pm
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Jazz Imnprovisising on the chromatic

Hello

Joe wrote:
"I always thought Dali & Picasso painted junk. I guess this all makes me a Luddite. Then we have Cecil Taylor. A proponent of ?free jazz?. It?s garbage. I know or  have known people who could stun you with what they knew about theory. Which would be good if not for the fact that they played like automotons. Robotic,  choppy, boring. So I guess it?s all a matter of taste. I find some professionals to be boring. Whereas I find some (relatively) unknown players to be a breath of fresh  air. Why IS this? I think it may be because just as Caesar said of Cassius..They have that "lean & hungry look???still. lolol. "

I would say we don't have to choose an "extreme" path.
Working a bit on scales (and theory) and expressing our inner voice seems to me a good option (
Each one feeds the other one, doesn't it?

Happy Harpin'!