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I've left it too late to ask this question but I'd still be interested to read people's views tomorrow...
My question is basically about people's approach to improvising in terms of having some ideas rehearsed versus completely improvising on the fly. Is rehearsing just plain cheating?
Ok so tonight I get to for the first time ever stand up and improvise in front of a bunch of people I've never met. Its a brand new band being put together by my tutor for a trial session. I get the feeling there'll be at least 20 people there and many who are really rather good! He's given me a piece to have a go at using Bluescale.
I'd love to be able to just pitch up sax in hand and improvise to any piece off the cuff there and then but after not quite 4 months learning sax that's still a long way off. Meanwhile, what should my approach have been. Obviously I've been noodling away and inevitably a few ideas have surfaced but I don't have the armoury of riffs, licks and tricks to fall back on that many of you guys will have. So do I just play my fledgling "tune" and flutter my fingers up and down the bluescale for effect. That's pretty much the plan at the mo 🙂
Thoughts/advice?
Cheers
My question is basically about people's approach to improvising in terms of having some ideas rehearsed versus completely improvising on the fly. Is rehearsing just plain cheating?
Ok so tonight I get to for the first time ever stand up and improvise in front of a bunch of people I've never met. Its a brand new band being put together by my tutor for a trial session. I get the feeling there'll be at least 20 people there and many who are really rather good! He's given me a piece to have a go at using Bluescale.
I'd love to be able to just pitch up sax in hand and improvise to any piece off the cuff there and then but after not quite 4 months learning sax that's still a long way off. Meanwhile, what should my approach have been. Obviously I've been noodling away and inevitably a few ideas have surfaced but I don't have the armoury of riffs, licks and tricks to fall back on that many of you guys will have. So do I just play my fledgling "tune" and flutter my fingers up and down the bluescale for effect. That's pretty much the plan at the mo 🙂
Thoughts/advice?
Cheers
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