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Start Improvising Today: 10 Mini-Challenges To Try from Easy Ear Training

Start Improvising Today: 10 Mini-Challenges To Try by  Sabrina Peña Young  |  READ FULL ARTICLE HERE:  http://www.easyeartraining.com/learn/start-improvising-today-10-mini-challenges-to-try/ Sit in on a jam session or jazz performance. The group seems to know how to play together with little more than a handful of chords jotted down on a lead sheet keeping them together. There is this type of rhythmic harmony, a knowledge of their instruments, being able to read each other’s slightest body movements and signals, that makes the experience enjoyable for listeners  and  performers. They accomplish this through improvisation. How can you master the art of improvisation? Like any musical skill, improvisation is not a magical gift. It takes practice and simply the art of  doing . The more you improvise, the more confident and accurately you will play. The more confident and accurate, the better you will improvise. But I’m not going to ...