Improvisation - Improv - Solos
Published: 24 Apr 2020 Updated: 04 Sep 2024 • Visits: 1233 • Code: ULIMPROV-1
Improvisation, or "improv", is the art of creating solos, licks, and riffs. It is one of the parts of creating music that gives beginners and intermediate players trouble.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note – it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
— Miles Davis
Here is what the late great (jazz trump)
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Dizzy Gillespie said about improv when asked What do you feel inside when you start improvising in jazz music?
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The first thing you must have is a picture of what you’re supposed to do. (He's referring to the chordal structure or harmony of the tune).
Then, I have the rhythm that I want to portray with this harmony, and then I put the notes of the harmony with the rhythm. I’m a rhythm man. — Dizzy Gillespie
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