Sorry, Mike, here you go:Mike Neer wrote: Vladimir, I can’t see what you’re talking about because it requires a login.
Three phases of an arrangement: Mister Sandman
Moderator: Brad Bechtel
-
Vladimir Sorokin
- Posts: 47
- Joined: 2 Sep 2009 7:47 am
- Location: Russia
- Contact:
I use similar diagrams when I teach and the materials I am preparing for an upcoming series of books also utilize this.
I do them by hand and then can transfer to software for printability. But it is best to view the note choices in smaller chunks--pick a position and stick with it until you are ready to move on to the next.
I would tell anyone this: knowing where the notes are is extremely important but knowing how they sound is even more important. Our improvisation should be a chain of events that starts in the mind and finds its way to your hands--and when I say the mind, I really mean hearing it internally. This is a process that improvisers spend their whole lives refining.
I know this may seem vague, but it starts by listening to a lot of improvisation by other master improvisers, learning some of what they are playing and analyzing it in the context of the chord changes. That is how we build vocabulary. The more you do it, the more your own ideas will have a frame of reference.
I do them by hand and then can transfer to software for printability. But it is best to view the note choices in smaller chunks--pick a position and stick with it until you are ready to move on to the next.
I would tell anyone this: knowing where the notes are is extremely important but knowing how they sound is even more important. Our improvisation should be a chain of events that starts in the mind and finds its way to your hands--and when I say the mind, I really mean hearing it internally. This is a process that improvisers spend their whole lives refining.
I know this may seem vague, but it starts by listening to a lot of improvisation by other master improvisers, learning some of what they are playing and analyzing it in the context of the chord changes. That is how we build vocabulary. The more you do it, the more your own ideas will have a frame of reference.