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The IOTM I have chosen is "Georgia"
For a few reasons, firstly it is a popular tune we can all relate to and most of us will know this tune very well even if you have not played it before you are likely to have heard it somewhere, second, in that we can also use the "blues scale" from last month IOTM which is a development of the idea and in my plan for IOTM this is vital as it means we can use elements of all my ideas in cross sections of tunes as we go along giving you all the chance to use these ideas in any given melody.
the exercise:
I am wanting to take you all out of your Rhythmical comfort zone, yes we can all happily swing along which is all well and good but will end up "samey" and although it is nice to swing it can end up predictable so to develop as an improviser you must start developing different senses of rhythm and this is a good thing as doing different things to the 'norm' makes an improviser more unique and adds more to their 'jazz language arsenal'.
for example, instead of just using swing quavers try putting in 'straight' quavers maybe adding triplets, semiquavers, syncopated notes(off beat) or just simply adding some space.
link to backing track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir3I6OVmgA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUc8qFJqyNiCxcuPAPwJo0DQ
As always it is about all enjoying the music and if you pick up a little tip or trick from me on the way then all well and good, I am not trying to give a 'school type' method on this and merely drawing from my experiences as a musician and jazz improviser and sharing my improvisation methods and some of my thought processes in how i improvise.
Enjoy
Ian
ps
as this is such a popular melody i am sure we can find our own music for it but if not just message me and i will sort it out for you.
For a few reasons, firstly it is a popular tune we can all relate to and most of us will know this tune very well even if you have not played it before you are likely to have heard it somewhere, second, in that we can also use the "blues scale" from last month IOTM which is a development of the idea and in my plan for IOTM this is vital as it means we can use elements of all my ideas in cross sections of tunes as we go along giving you all the chance to use these ideas in any given melody.
the exercise:
I am wanting to take you all out of your Rhythmical comfort zone, yes we can all happily swing along which is all well and good but will end up "samey" and although it is nice to swing it can end up predictable so to develop as an improviser you must start developing different senses of rhythm and this is a good thing as doing different things to the 'norm' makes an improviser more unique and adds more to their 'jazz language arsenal'.
for example, instead of just using swing quavers try putting in 'straight' quavers maybe adding triplets, semiquavers, syncopated notes(off beat) or just simply adding some space.
link to backing track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qir3I6OVmgA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUc8qFJqyNiCxcuPAPwJo0DQ
As always it is about all enjoying the music and if you pick up a little tip or trick from me on the way then all well and good, I am not trying to give a 'school type' method on this and merely drawing from my experiences as a musician and jazz improviser and sharing my improvisation methods and some of my thought processes in how i improvise.
Enjoy
Ian
ps
as this is such a popular melody i am sure we can find our own music for it but if not just message me and i will sort it out for you.
